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Death Wish (2017): One of Trump's Favorites gets a Remake

all fictions said:
The AV Club review. Pretty much what was expected: https://www.avclub.com/bruce-willis-has-a-death-wish-in-eli-roths-faithfully-f-1823446977

And apparently the movie was pushed back because of the Las Vegas shootings...only to come out on the heels of another mass shooting.
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I feel that Matthew Rozza from Salon has a fairer assessment of the timing and themes.

I couldn't bring myself to hate the "Death Wish" remake, as the vast majority of critics have done. Sure, its release was poorly timed (less than three weeks after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting), but mass shootings have been ubiquitous for so long that I doubt there ever would have been an appropriate release date for a vigilante fantasy. For it to have not been released at a bad time, it would have had to not be released at all.
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No, the problem with this movie's political message — namely, that a good guy with a gun can stop the bad guys of the world — is that it isn't confined to the "Death Wish" franchise. It exists everywhere in our culture, from movies and video games to the right-wing talking points that regularly thwart gun control legislation. The "Death Wish" movies are a little more obvious in preaching this than most blockbuster fare, to be sure, but our cineplexes are so filled with action films that indulge in this wish fulfillment that the "Death Wish" remake hardly stands out.
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VolantRedX said:
As a fan of the Death Wish films the set up seems pretty spot on for the series. Now in the current climate I wonder if making the film is a good plan, but despite being the NRA wet dream the whole point of Death Wish is that despite all the killings Charles Bronson ends up making no lasting changes and is forced out of the city to avoid jail. He also doesn't kill that many people. It's mostly about him dealing with his slowly crumbling sanity. If both those things are left in I can see the film being decent.
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wasnt there also some undertone to the film where through his quest for revenge bronson became as much of a violent sociopathic blood hungry killer as the people he hunted? That revenge not only destroyed his relation to his family but the life and soul of an honestly good man? That whole "Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster." thing.
 
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