REVIEW: Death WishBy Bri ManzanoMarch 3, 2018It’s basically Taken, but Liam Neeson is Bruce Willis; he’s had no government training; Famke Janssen dies and Maggie Grace is in a coma.

To everyone complaining about how terrible this movie was: did anyone expect Death Wish to win any Academy Awards? Did anyone see the trailer for Death Wish and think, “This movie is going to say something profound about the state of our world today”? No. If you signed up to see this movie, you knew exactly what you were getting into. If you expected more from it, that’s your own problem.

I’m not going to defend this movie to the death (wish). Because it’s not flawless. Like I said, it’s exactly what you would expect it to be.

There’s not really much else to say about Death Wish. You don’t see it for the performances; you see it because we live in a world where terrorists are hard to catch and significant others cheat and humans contain a lot of pent-up, unresolved frustration, and sometimes you just really want to see bad guys get theirs.

Rating: 5.4/10

BUT I had fun watching it. It’s not a bad way to spend an hour and fifty minutes.

Favorite scene: The Ice Cream Man.
Least favorite scene: You can definitely tell Eli Roth directed this film.

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