Death Wish

The street violence is staged with such disgusting levity that any attempt at thematic complexity seems purely for show.

While Death Wish doubles as a commercial for the gun lobby, its alt-right posturing is undermined by its uneven, head-scratching tone.

This is a film too embarrassed to be what it is. And shorn of capes and costumes, vigilantism is pretty ugly.

[Its] failure to explore the moral and political cements the movie in a quagmire of nihilistic pointlessness.

Roth's vapid effort is unlikely to promote anything but yawns.

Just watch the original instead.

The wildly miscalculated release of this film is only matched by its mindless aggression.

A morose and uneventful by-the-numbers remake that doesn't go nearly as far as it needs to.

The good news: Despite all the worries that this would be nothing more than an alt-right wet dream in which Bruce Willis guns down scores of blacks and Muslims, the film is actually restrained in such matters. The bad news: It still isn't very good.

Will provide ammunition for discussion, so that's something. Gun violence has been a hot button topic when the first movie came out in 1974. It still is, but the conversation has changed.