WOW!!! Death Wish 3 is ABSOLUTELY crazy & fun as hell & i love the opening scene with kersey on a coach with some beautiful music score playing it's funky & cool as hell. In death wish 3 the Apocalyptic gritty streets of New York City is a battleground for street creeps & psycho gangs & they are terrorising a big old tenement building in a really rough & rundown neighbourhood & no one will help these poor old folks until PAUL KERSEY (Bronson) shows up to visit a friend who has been killed by those creeps. BRONSON is fantastic in this crazy urban Rambo & the Action is incredible & has to be seen to be believed IT'S that good & crazy!!! Paul Kersey is such a cool & calm character he's a silent avenger who just shoots the scum & goes back to dinner lol a great character & paul kersey has been as an action hero. part 3 is ultra violent & full of fun & absolutely crazy with ridiculous dialogue & character interactions but it's still so much FUN & that's because BRONSON is such a great screen presence & is perfect in the role of paul kersey & has NEVER been better!!! So yeah ever since watching this late at night & absolutely loving the craziness of part 3 i adore it so much as i grew up on 80s Action & this is like the Schwarzenegger classic Commando it's that action packed!!! So yeah love this gritty little fun fest but i will say it's side by side with part 1 (1974) for best of the franchise as both are excellent death wish films. ALSO DEATH WISH 3 is so quotable with stupid lines like "chicken is good i like chicken" or " do you like opera - it's restful" or " he killed the giggler man the giggler" - "he had no business doing that" "it's my car" lots of cool funny & countless other crazy gems but hey IT'S all fun & love the franchise. DEATH WISH 3 (1985) really is so much fun,This is also one of my most watched films of all time, Not the best made but DEFINITELY the most action packed fun in a film I've ever seen (right next to COMMANDO) AN ACTION MASTERPIECE & GREAT LATE NIGHT ENTERTAINMENT & a proper GRINDHOUSE classic

Charles Bronson as Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey puts Clint Eastwood's Inspector Harry Callahan to shame in director Michael Winner's ultra-violent crime melodrama "Death Wish 3," when it comes to gunning down bad guys. Deborah Raffin, Ed Lauter, Martin Balsam, Gavan O'Herlihy, and Alex Winter co-star in this free-for-all second sequel. Subtlety is given the boot, and the body count and carnage escalate as never before with cars exploding, building blowing-up, and street fighting galore. Whereas the first two "Death Wish" movies maintained an aura of credibility, Winner and "Double Team" scenarist Don Jakoby have raised the stakes and the consequences so exponentially that everything is beyond credibility. The exaggerated levels of violence in "Death Wish 3" are such that you'd think the government would intervene, deploying National Guardsmen as well as declaring martial law. The third part of this formulaic, action-packed epic finds our hero arming him with a World War II .30 caliber Browning machine gun that he lugs around like Rambo when he is doling out retribution with a souped up .475 Wildey Magnum. Indeed, the Wildey is no prop, but in fact the genuine article. The villains jack-knife backwards when the .475 slams into them like a runaway train. Literally, the only dull moments are those when has the cast dish out exposition. Otherwise, clocking in at 92 minutes, "Death Wish 3" never loses its momentum.Basically, as unlikely as it seems, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson of "Red Sun") has returned to New York City. Remember, the NYPD exiled him from the Big Apple in "Death Wish" (1974), and he moved to Chicago and then Los Angeles for "Death Wish 2." Now, arriving in town aboard a Trailways Bush, he plans to visit Charley (Francis Drake of "Bullseye!"), an old Korean War buddy. Alas, arriving too late, Kersey finds his old friend alone and dying in his apartment after thugs have vandalized his premises. The NYPD burst into the room, arrest Kersey, confiscate his firearm, and later interrogate him without kid gloves, until Inspector Richard Shriker (Ed Lauter of "The Longest Yard"), intercedes. This crooked cop cuts a bargain with Kersey: he can terminate as many hooligans as he sees fit, but he must furnish Shriker with news of any gangbanging, so his men-in-blue can dominate the headlines. Winner paints a grim picture of crime in East New York, and Kersey's chief adversary, Manny Fraker (Gavan O'Herlihy of "Never Say Never Again") has sworn to kill our hero. The feud between Kersey and Fraker erupts at the beginning after Kersey has been unceremoniously dumped into cell with the evil Fraker. Naturally, the inmates test Kersey and walk away from him until Fraker decides to clash with him. Fraker spends the rest of the movie stalking Kersey, resolved to kill him. Good movies don't beat around the proverbial bush. Instead, the villain wastes no time coming forward to challenge the protagonist. O'Herlihy makes an adamant villain who doesn't stand down until Kersey eliminates him with a portable, one-shot, 66-mm unguided anti-tank weapon, a M72 LAW rocket and happens to be within convenient reach!Despite the rampant unreality of everything, the thugs look genuinely heinous, as if they were modeled on Stanley Kubrick's "Clockwork Orange." They all look garish and surreal. They love to hurl trash cans through apartment windows, abduct and rape helpless women, and make Paul Kersey's life a nightmare. Predictably, Kersey returns the favor in spades, and the corpses stack up. At one point, Kersey and Shriker scramble down a street, shooting any hooligans that stick their heads up, in a sequence reminiscent of a Spaghetti western. Nevertheless, "Death Wish 3" is a product of its era when critics abhorred it and its alarming, R-rated violence. Kersey denies that he is a vigilante any more when Shriker interviews him early in the action, but Kersey seems to be acting like one when he guns down one creep after another. Michael Winner's direction is flawless. Never does it let the momentum lag, no matter how outlandish things get. Poor Deborah Raffin discovers that being with Paul Kersey has consequences. In one of the rare acts of violence that seems spontaneous and realistic, Fraker and a minion daze her with a blow to the head, release the brake on Kersey's car, and shove it down an incline in town. Kersey witnesses this act and watches in disbelief as his car smashes into another automobile at an intersection and triggers a double explosion that engulfs both cars in fireball explosions. Talk about a death scene! Incidentally, Paul Talbot points out in his analysis of "Death Wish" movies, "Bronson's Loose!: The Making of the Death Wish Films," that part of "Death Wish 3" was shot in New York City and the other half was lensed on location in London. Essentially, "Death Wish 3" took Kersey's vigilantism about as far out as it could in his fight with street hooligans. The two remaining "Death Wish" movies would chart a different course.

Charles Bronson was well known for this work at the first movie of this saga. Two movies and eleven years later he has white card to come back to NYC and kill... everything I should say. The fact is that DW3 is basically tons of bullets, people falling down from the buildings, explosions, World World II weapons, neighbors being molested plus gangs rioting in a bizarre mode. To be honest I've laughed the 50% of the movie (A LOT), but this is genuine, I can take this film "seriously" as I can take to mention for example "The Godfather". Here we have a lot of fun, a briefly date of Charles with a woman and... rock and roll!. Grab a beer, watch it and enjoy it!. Put the body count and scream yeah!

Whereas 'Death Wish II' was more a remake of the 1974 original than a true sequel, this third entry in the series takes the story in a completely fresh and original direction. The focus here is police corruption with Ed Lauter making a magnificently sinister crooked police chief who sends Paul Kersey to a district of town ruled by vicious gangs. His plan? To have Kersey kill off the "creeps", claim that said creeps are killing themselves off and boast about the inevitable lower crime rates as one of his big successes. This is a pretty wild plan, and the fact that Kersey goes along with everything is a little incredulous, but with a bit of suspension of disbelief, the movie is surprisingly engaging. 'Death Wish 3' shares some of the second film's detractors (most notably, the lack of character arc/progression compared to the first film) but Kersey attacks the "creeps" in far more innovative ways this time, booby-trapping various apartments to protect the rightful residents. Michael Winner also does a noticeably good job of visualising the material this time with extreme close-ups (of dangling keys, bullets, etc.) that keep things alive, not to mention a framing shot from inside Lauter's armpit! Winner does not, however, manage to conclude this chapter quite as powerfully as the previous two entries. There is a memorable weapon of choice, but the lack of consequences for Lauter never feels right and the ultimate message of the film is a bit too unabashedly pro-vigilantism for its own good. If flawed though, 'Death Wish 3' is a better film than its reputation might suggest.