Yeah, I know, she probably wouldn’t … but she has one great Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry line. Even more unlikely is the ending, as Terence Howard (who is a man to watch he’s very, very good) does something … well, that’s a spoiler.Īnd damn it, bottom line, it would be a lot more fun if she enjoyed it more. But of course her final targets are the very murderers who killed her fiancée … and stole her dog, too! And that seems unlikely. In this movie Jodie Foster tries for more honesty, showing the price a formerly peaceful vigilante pays for her clean-up campaign. Naturally, to get that delight, the screenwriters have to make the monsters into the absolute worst, most despicable, sub-human creatures who ever lived, the sort of people most of us would no more miss than metal rabbits in a shooting gallery. I remember getting a visceral delight in seeing these monsters blown away. Death Wish was probably a dishonest movie … but damn, it was a lot of fun. Charles Bronson, in Death Wish, seemed to suffer no qualms at all about cleaning up New York City, and Bernard Goetz was apparently bothered only by the lifelong hassle he incurred by plugging those assholes on the subway. I don’t believe they are all psychopaths, but many of them are, or at least they’re people who are incapable of feeling empathy. Unless you’re a certain kind of person who is not bothered by killing, and I have to think they’re fairly rare. I’m not one of them.) You’d like to think it would be satisfying, and it certainly can be, but probably not if it involves killing someone, no matter how richly they deserve it. (I’d say all, but there are people who really believe in turning the other cheek. There’s really nothing brave about putting a gun in the face of a worthless piece of shit and pulling the trigger. I guess it’s brave to come out of your apartment after a brutal mugging that leaves you near death and your fiancée dead, when you’re having panic attacks the moment you reach for the doorknob … but having a gun helps a lot.
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