The street violence is staged with such disgusting levity that any attempt at thematic complexity seems purely for show.

| Mar 9, 2020

While Death Wish doubles as a commercial for the gun lobby, its alt-right posturing is undermined by its uneven, head-scratching tone.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 13, 2018

This is a film too embarrassed to be what it is. And shorn of capes and costumes, vigilantism is pretty ugly.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 9, 2018

[Its] failure to explore the moral and political cements the movie in a quagmire of nihilistic pointlessness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Roth's vapid effort is unlikely to promote anything but yawns.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Just watch the original instead.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2018

Released in America just two weeks after the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting, it barges into the gun control debate with a grim, pranksterish attitude, like a boorish stand-up comedian grabbing the mike at a state funeral.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 5, 2018

Short of bringing back a CGI image of a handsome young Charlton Heston over the closing credits, hollering about his cold, dead hands, it couldn't be more of an NRA promotional event.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 5, 2018

All this action become increasingly mind-numbing and repetitive.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 4, 2018

This version lacks the occasional brilliant flashes of the first.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2018

The new Death Wish is unlikely to spark similar controversy, simply because the filmmaking is not as compelling as in the original film. Most probably, it will fade from the screen as forgettably as its enervated lead performance by Bruce Willis.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 8, 2018

There's not a single memorable action scene. It's a mish mash of tones filled with wooden performances, a very boring lead character and no clear cut villain.

| Original Score: D | Mar 5, 2018

"Death Wish" is a catechism for an audience terrified that their firepower and their influence are dwindling.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 4, 2018

In that limited sense, "Death Wish" is a success, albeit one that action fans should wait to see on Netflix.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 3, 2018

The film cranks up the audience with little jokes and references, and gets the audience cheering for the Grim Reaper before they even realize what they're cheering for -- and therein lies the problem.

| Mar 2, 2018

He's not remaking Death Wish. He's making what he thinks a person in 1974, sitting in a Forty-Deuce grindhouse theater, would have seen in their mind while watching it ...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 2, 2018

As in the Bronson series, the new Death Wish is devoid of nuance, feigning "debate" (via talk radio sound bites) while depicting everything in figurative, and often literal, black and white terms.

| Mar 2, 2018

Vigilante dad rock.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 2, 2018

By most metrics, this Death Wish is a better movie than the first one.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 2, 2018

It asks nothing, and offers only the blanket assertion that feelings of masculine inadequacy - "The most important thing a man can do is protect his family, and I failed," Willis declaims - can be obviated ballistically.

| Mar 2, 2018