Saturday, November 30, 2024

Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)

 In 'Death Wish 4' Kersey is back in LA, he's a working architect again, shows he has a type with a second love intreast whose a reporter, and also like her predecessors a much younger blond (Kay Lenz). Paul's said to been with his current love interest for about 2 years, has become something of a father figure to her teenage daughter Dana Barron. Well wouldn't you know it but Dana dies in a drug overdose from the crack cocaine. So Bronson gets to work vigilanting again; at the request of a old newspaperman who tells him his daughter died from the crack, Paul sows seeds of chaos in an effort to start a gang war between the two biggest drug suppliers in LA. When leaders of those two parties meet for a summit, Paul ensures it ends in a blood bath taking out the leadership of both sides. Only then does he learn that the old newspaper man was actually the leader of a third drug syndicate using Paul to take out his competition. Needless to say this too must be avenged. 

Lots o action, lots o violence. Further complication arises when Paul is persued by two cops, one clean and one dirty. Tuvok from Star Trek: Voyager is in this, as is a young Danny Trahoe, whom Bronson blows up. I admit I've found these films to be surprisingly satisfying, they really found their metter, and play almost like R rated serial TV. **1/2

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