Death Wish 3 (1985)

It’s a running joke among Death Wish appreciators and detractors alike as to when Paul Kersey—the mustachioed vengeance machine played by Charles Bronson—lost his mind. A fine argument could be made that this vigilante fantasy was cracked from the beginning. But by Death Wish 3 , Paul and the franchise had plummeted so far into the reactionary fever dream of “only this 65-year-old man can stop New York’s sadistic multicultural leather gangs” that its unintentional hilarity and ham-handed directing could never be replicated.

The third film—screening Nov. 6 at the Hollywood Theatre as part of the Wyrd War Presents! series—sees Kersey move into an apartment building besieged by cartoonish criminals with nicknames like “The Giggler.” Would you believe the cops won’

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