Disgusting piece of right wing anti hippy pro-gun propaganda that is also showing its age even though not badly made for its time. I can totally see why the remake is getting bad reviews. This kind of subject treatment and the public response to it shows why many Americans look screwed up from an outside POV.

Despite l'm against all sort of death penalty,striking l love this movie,it was made in early 70' where New York was a nobody's land,so this picture fully fit at this time,but the revenge's idea in fact come instintively from human being,so it's so crude feeling about us,Bronson gave us a propper Vigilante whose all us wants to be,the picture make history in cinema industry,largely emulated but never surpassed through the time,the stone face became a hero!!Resume:First watch: 1984 / How many: 2 / Source: TV-DVD / Rating: 8

This is a standard 1970s production. The script is adequate, the action credible, and photography unimaginative but effective within the framework of the film's aims. Bronson, an actor of limited range, has in this role probably his finest hour, playing the aggrieved law-abiding citizen who sees no justice done and decides to act as vigilante, until it becomes addictive. One very positive point about this movie is that it neither judges nor moralizes, it just presents situations involving a man increasingly enjoying thwarting and killing criminals, and increasingly unable to turn off the habit. It is no surprise to learn that Goetz had seen this film several times before he shot and wounded four would-be attackers on the metro in New York a few years later. DEATH WISH is manipulative, but also persuasive, in its handling of the subject matter, but it does so with enough style to hold the whole thing together and make viewing a compelling, and at times even enjoyable, experience - leaving the viewer to decide on all the moral issues. Definitely worth 8/10.

A New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad after his wife is murdered by street punks in which he randomly goes out and kills would-be muggers on the mean streets after dark. Death Wish is the kind of action movie that started this whole "Action" thing long before Stallone and Schwarzenegger showed up with a really good performance by Charles Bronson and a lot of gun shooting Death Wish is a really good action thriller and let's hope that the remake won't suck. I still haven't seen the sequels tho but i think that so far this is the most serious one and the best one in the franchise there's a lot of action and i loved the character of Bronson and the way he killed all those men.