This weekend sees the release of Eli Roth’s remake of Michael Winner’s “Death Wish” (read our review here). Remaking “Death Wish” is a strange undertaking, because the premise of a regular person rising up to “clean up the streets” has been done multiple times since 1974 (and essentially, the four “Death Wish” sequels are remakes of the original in and of themselves). The five-year span in which “Dirty Harry” (1971), “Death Wish” (1974), and “Taxi Driver” (1976) came out somehow metamorphosed the three films into something that has influenced decades of revenge action movies, usually involving government or law enforcement of some kind doing the revenge (“Taken,” “The Punisher,” “Out For Justice,” etc.
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