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Show In The Movies " mi By Mick Drew O 1 y ( ry ind V cdi When Death Wish premiered back in H' Charles Bronson fans literally cheered as theira I ; lante hero gunned down a mass of "shady" ch P ters on New York's seamier side. L, THERE WAS something wildly encouraging :fc I a man possessed with avenging his wife's murk?1! his daughter's brutal rape. r Eight years later, Bronson is back. Bui ft. Wish II fails to bring any new light to his depres maniacal character. In fact, this movies is tk ( done, carbon copy of its predecessor. Dire: Michael Winner should have left well enough it' THOSE WHO saw the original Bronson flick doubtedly remember the nightmarish way in i is team of vicious hoodlums broke into his fat Hu home and brutally assaulted his wife and daup jj leaving one dead and the other in a mental it ' tion. fear In Death Wish II, Bronson has moved away'jjn New York to escape persecution by the policts k anchored in Los Angeles. So much for "big 0 public relations. j, BRONSON AT first appears to have puthis' death out of his mind. He has a new girlfriend !-Jm played by his real-life wife Jill Ireland) and vis recouperating daughter, who lives only driving ' tance from his home. hi In the precursor to a rash of senseless violent--ier murder, Branson's wallet is-stolen by ajcamo :tu sightly hoods. He gives chase to one offo shoves his head against a brick wall and dernaK property back. When the street fighterdeniestt has the wallet, Bronson returns to a nearby ft" where his girlfiend and daughter are waiting. IN HIS absence, the hoods locate his bos prepare to do battle with the man who 013 , friend. An innocent housekeeper is theirfM: The woman's gang rape, in my opinion, is, most appalling, vicious scenes in recent fflnj Bronson returns home. With him is his da the same one who was attacked in New Yw ; less to say, the ugly cycle continues. Bn knocked unconscious and his daughter is IN ONE of the most disturbing scenes of movie, we see this young, defenseless assaulted again. Then, in a fatal effort to estA plunges out of a second story window' stomach first on a sharp fence post. The rest of the movie moves as expected -decides to avenge his daughter's death, n l;. into a run-down apartment in one of the , neighborhodds and begins searching for BUT DEATH Wish II goes beyond I tht violence, beyond the titilation of viguan This time, Bronson, not the real cnms to be the misguided one stalking the search of faces. And when the killing is -doesn't show the slightest remorse. : IN ONE particularly vicious scene, , hec of the hoods in the basement of an old no . a cross around the "victim's neck, 0 "Do you believe in Jesus?" "Yes," the frightened man says. "NOW YOU'RE going to meet hiny smiles as he fires a gun into the boy s Who, but a psychopathic m''forhur kill again without ever shedding a tear' That's what is most disturbing about I Not recommended for anyone under I else for that matter. -P |