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

There's only one thing better than watching "Death Wish 3", and that's heading on over to IMDb to read the viewer comments about the picture. Seriously, I have never read about a picture before where the lovers and haters of a film all appear to be on the same page in their rabid appreciation for it. You can add me to the list, this was one epic flick. I think this might be the one picture Charles Bronson made just to see if he could get away with it (although I haven't seen 4 or 5 yet), but if I'm wrong I'll be glad to amend my comments later.You really have to catch this picture to get a flavor of all the mindless, violent nastiness going on. The anti-tank grenade launcher that blows Fraker (Gavan O'Herlihy) into bite size pieces was quite special, but I think my favorite was the brain buster spring trap Paul Kersey (Bronson) rigged up in his apartment. All this with the full knowledge, support and go-ahead of the local police chief Shriker (Ed Lauter).And you know what the topper is? The music score for the picture was put together by Jimmy Page!!! You know, the 'Stairway to Heaven'/'Whole Lotta Love' guy who rocked it with Led Zeppelin, which now that I think about it, how come there was no zeppelin in this picture? All I can think of, this was one time Page might have really been 'Dazed and Confused'.

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.

"Death Wish 3"...boy, I almost forgot I watched this movie just recently. A weird experience for me since I'm a big fan of the previous films and I found myself scratching my head thinking why someone thought that humor could be used in serious topics such as brutal attacks against elderly and women in abandoned neighborhoods. Or worst: since when Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson), the vigilante who lost his family in the previous films of the franchise could have some humor inside him. Kersey worked better as his most bittered and bloody-thirst while doing justice with his own hands.Golan-Globus surely ruined the franchise (the second "Death Wish" is way over-the-top but still in the dark mood it becomes something good to watch). This instance has a poor neighborhood composed of Jewish elderly, Latin and blacks terrorized by marginal types who enter their homes, use of violence and sexual assaults to get money which they call paying for protection. One of the groups' victims is Paul's friend from their Korea War days and the moment he gets there, Kersey is arrested accused of the crime. Lame but understandable. Let's move ahead. While on detention, the former architect turned vigilant is offered a nice proposition by the police chief (Ed Lauter, simply awesome) who knows about Kersey's past killing muggers and rapists: Kersey is given the chance to clean the streets and remove the bad guys from view. Obviously this chief is being pressured by the mayor and others about the high levels of criminality, but Kersey can be of help. Unorthodox but acceptable in terms of films. The problem comes when the movie decides to present a bad guy. Kersey always fought groups of thugs, never masterminds or nemesis of some sort. Here, the bad guy is Fraker (Gavan O'Herlihy) who practically controls the city and even share a jail cell with Kersey and they talk as if they were old buddies from other movie (not really). But of course, it's not only Paul versus Fraker; it's Paul against Fraker's gang members who literally outnumber the old folks who live there and who also will try to help Paul. Here comes another stupidity: all the old residents possessed guns but somehow they never used against used them against the invaders (only Paul's friend tried to but end up killed), and an old couple almost got arrested because they owned a gun. The police took their gun - even with the man having a permit - but they cannot see all the robberies, the rapes and the deaths around the building. That's just ridiculous. "Death Wish 3" is manageable even with all those problems I mentioned, and besides when Kersey goes in action that movies gets where it needs, proving to be exciting, tense and creating nice scenarios, even though the humor seems completely out of place - except when our hero shoots a mugger and the whole crowd begins to cheer. It's all fine until the movie provides a female companion to Kersey, a prosecutor who wants him to press charges against the police for his outrageous detention. Their affair escalates very quickly and for no good reason. She sees him and she likes him immediately. If only life was like that. I could accept that. But when her character gets killed by the group I could connect with the film anymore. Kept watching but wasn't in it anymore. The amount of absurdity, goofiness and unexplained things was too troubling for me to handle. It's fun to watch but it doesn't have any iota of what is trying to be, or trying to do. And have in mind, this was the first Death Wish to be released after the Bernhard Goetz incident on the subway in 1984, and you have Charles Bronson advising people to not imitate the film, don't become a vigilante BUT the whole movie goes the other way, killing bad guys is fun, get your neighbors, grab your guns and start to kill. Some may wonder: but wasn't the original "Death Wish" about the same thing I just pointed out but without the laughs? No, not at all. Michael Winner's earlier film was a loud cry of the society against criminality and police inefficiency, deeply surrounded by lousy politics not doing their job, and as was current with the 1970's cinema movement many characters simply went mad as hell and couldn't take it anymore. Time to set standards and do justice. And Kersey was very conflicted before turning into a justice warrior instead of the guy filled with Schwarzenegger's like punchlines whenever the writer thinks he ought to do those (After killing two guys robbers stealing his car, he's asked asked what happened and he says he was just giving those guys a message). Disappointing and very low, "Death Wish 3" can only be enjoyed for its brainless moments if you are looking exactly for that. Those who seek to find more of the same from the previous films will be dead on the water. We all need laughs but it only works without falling into ridicule if the topics brought on are meant to be funny. Or simply label it as a comedy cause no thriller was found in here. 5/10