Originally slated to open in November, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures decided to push the “Death Wish” remake to spring. Frankly, no one particularly noticed or cared, because whatever time of year this movie arrives, it looks like trash. And not the kind that’s enjoyably brain numbing.
Bruce Willis is your new Charles Bronson, in this story of a man who takes the law into his own hands after his wife and daughter are viciously attacked. He even goes viral! Behind the camera is Eli Roth, making his first real mainstream effort, and feeling pretty anonymous in the process. Here’s the official synopsis:
Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of his city’s violence when it is rushed into his ER – until his wife (Elisabeth Shue) and college-age daughter (Camila Morrone) are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts his family’s assailants to deliver justice. As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media’s attention, the city wonders if this deadly avenger is a guardian angel or a grim reaper. Fury and fate collide in the intense action-thriller Death Wish.
Paul Kersey becomes a divided person: a man who saves lives, and a man who takes them; a husband and father trying to take care of his family, and a shadowy figure fighting crime; a surgeon extracting bullets from suspects’ bodies, and a man seeking justice that detectives are quickly closing in on.
Penned by Joe Carnahan, and co-starring Vincent D’Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Camila Morrone, Dean Norris and Kimberly Elise, “Death Wish” opens on March 2nd.