Death Wish 4: The Crackdown $9.98
The streets are filled with death and destruction. Ruthless drug traffickers prey upon the poor, the lonely, the helpless. L.A. is a city desperate for deliverance until now! Charles Bronson returns as Paul Kersey, the original urban vigilante and one-man demolition force in this pulse-pounding, take-no-prisoners thriller! Two rival drug gangs have a death-grip on L.A.'s battle-torn inner city. But their brutal reign of terror is about to come to a violent end. One man is out to avenge the cocaine-induced death of his girlfriend's teenage daughter. His name is Paul Kerseyand he's armed, dangerous and mad as hell!
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Last updated: October 30, 2009, 8:45 pm
Death Wish 4: The Crackdown Cusomter reviews:
Average Rating: 4.0 Total Reviews: 27
(harrythompson, 2009-10-24) Bought this just for the scene where Perry Lopez nods his head to his henchman as Charles Bronson, pretending to be a hired bartender, is lifting the dead body. Priceless.
(Robert M. Delgado, 2009-05-14) I like Charles Bronson, and I like Kay Lenz. The old style of makeing movies in the 1970's. the bad guysd are totally surprised, and the Good guy's Bronson and Lenz always get their man. Except he doesn't save her in the end. Oopps!
(The Straw Man, 2009-02-02) After the World War 4 that was Death Wish 3, one can only imagine what would be on tap for Death Wish 4. One might be pondering if Death Wish 3 was World War 4, what happened to World War 3? Death Wish 3 was so violent that it was World War 3 and 4. As for "Death Wish 4: The Crackdown" this movie finds Paul Kersey (Bronson) in Los Angeles, the prior film took place in New York. Paul is now involved with his girlfriend, a news reporter, and appears to be living a good life. This moment doesn't last too long when his girlfriend's daughter Erica dies of a crack-cocaine overdose. Now this being a Death Wish movie and this movie featuring Charles Bronson, you can only imagine where things go from here. Kersey/Bronson finds the drug pusher who gave Erica the smack and blows him away. Then a day later a morning father who lost his daughter to drug use approaches Kersey/Bronson about wiping out all the drug dealers/pushers in L.A. After some short consideration, Kersey/Bronson is back to his old tricks fighting the scum of the world. I found Death Wish 4 to be vintage Bronson and doesn't fail providing plenty of action and one liners. There is a scene where Kersey/Bronson is caught breaking and entering in a drug lord's home (who also happens to be a baritone, go figure). When the drug lord asks why Kersey/Bronson is there he replies "I was making a sandwich". I love this stuff!! This movie also provided some twits that were sort of surprising for a Death Wish flick. Another thing I like about this "low" budget movie is that the special effects look better than many movies made today. Mainly because cars are really flipped over, buildings are really blown up; you won't see any CGI here!!! As for the acting, at a core level it isn't really any worse or better than what is offered in modern movies. As always Bronson delivers an amazing performance as Paul Kersey, the angel of death. The only feature on the DVD is the trailer/preview for DW4. It would be nice if the DVD had a little more meat on it, but at least this movie has been put on DVD. So if you ever walk into your house and see Bronson making a sandwich let's just hope it isn't a knuckle.
(A. o'brian, 2008-09-28) very good movie i enjoy all charles bronson movies a must have for the avid collecter
(Sid the Elf, 2008-03-03) We, Sid the Elf, are staying in the world of Death Wish for as long as we can. This week we took the wonderful ride that was Death Wish 4. The Death Wish series seems to get better as they go along. Its like chicks: 3 is better than 2 and 4 is better than 3. By the time Sid gets done watching 5 in a few weeks, he might wet himself from sheer amazement and amusement. First, Sid would just like to get to know Bronson. If it's Sid he says "This guy's got it." The man made maybe THE defining guy movie of all-time: The Dirty Dozen, then he made the Death Wish Series which are just cinematic pieces of exquisite art. Now, Sid's sources tell him, the guy has his own island in the Caribeen. Sid can only imagine what goes on on that island. Probably a lot of strange, strange things because Bronson has got to be a wierd dude in real life. But, Bronson makes some of the finest B around. And Death Wish 4 is no exception to this theory. Sid just knew this movie had a ton of upside potential when a future 90210 cast member(Nicky, Brandon's cute, spunky freshman girlfriend from the gang's senior year) appeared as Bronson's woman's daughter who just happens to be a druggie in the first 10 minutes of this movie. Actually, Sid knew this movie had tremendous upside potential when the chick in the opening scene performed a magic act by looking up and making guys appear. So, we had potential and Death Wish 4 delivered. It had all of our favorite elements of B. Take special note of these occurances of extreme crappiness. First, when Bronson was in the black hitman's apartment, Bronson hit him with the barstool. Then the guy obviously jumps out of the window. But, there's a twist here: the window clearly breaks a full second before the guy gets there. That's the damn Rolls-Royce of b-ness is what it is. Then, in the shootout at the oilfield, Bronson shoots the guy whose head goes through the car window. Before Bronson shoots the guy, he has no facial hair, but by the time Bronson shoots him he has grown a full 80's/David Crosby mustache. That's amazing. Oh yeah, the plot. It can really be summed up briefly. Bronson gets hired to take down two drug cartels by the head of another gang posing as a wealthy do-gooder. So Bronson takes down the drug rings by knocking off maybe 40 or 50 guys which is completely realistic, there definitely wouldn't be like 100 guys in each organization. Then Bronson had to take out the guy who posed as the rich guy. This was possibly the finest moment in the movie. Bronson shoots the guy with a grenade launcher from about 15 feet away. Watching the incredibly fake-looking dummy they used blow up was funny beyond belief. Yeah, there were even explosions in this movie. On top of that, you had the Bronson slow-motion punches that somehow knocked guys out for a good 15 minutes. This is a move that would later be perfected by the immortal Steven Segal. One of the guys Bronson takes out is a corrupt detective who's controlled by one of the drug rings. So, add that on to Bronson's problems. We still don't get this guy. By the fifth and final movie they should just have him walking around with a rain cloud floating over him while he wears a grim-reaper costume. Sid thinks, though, the thing that's the best...and the worst about this movie is the fact that it was different in the respect that when you're watching a movie you predict what's going to happen next in your head. Everyone does it. And usually, you're way off base, right? That's why you're not a screenwriter. But, not with Death Wish 4. Everytime Sid made a prediction in this one it came true. Example: one half Sid said to the other half Sid "Watch the cop just let Bronson go." And...exactly. There were a couple other b veterans in this flick. We were very happy to see Soon-Tek Oh, the guy who famously played the evil POW camp ruler, Col. Yin in Missing in Action 2: The Beginning/Braddock: Missing in Action III. And the guy who played the drug lord posing as the wealthy newspaper owner was John P. Ryan who played Gen. Taylor in Delta Force 2 - Operation Stranglehold. As you already know if you're wise enough to be reading one of Sid's reviews, those are two guys from Chuck Norris movies. So, that made Sid think, "Why didn't Norris and Bronson ever do a movie together?" Then the answer became clear. If they did, the weight of toughness, cheesey 80's mustaches, and bad acting would make the world collapse on itself.