though armed with enough gore and pandering violence to enjoy some success with moviegoers who haven't yet been burned by star Bruce Willis' many recent flops, this generic attempt at a franchise reboot deserves to be killed
Eli Roth's bloodthirsty take on Michael Winner’s 1974 thriller is a banal misfire that goes too far too soon and has arrived at a particularly inopportune time in the US
Death Wish is the wrong movie at the wrong time; as undeniably effective as it is on a primal gut level, should have probably stayed where it belonged. In the past
by most metrics, this Death Wish is a better movie than the first one. The acting is stronger, and it's much more confidently, dynamically directed [by Eli Roth]
by David Fear [Rolling Stone ]
by Amy Nicholson [The Guardian ]
