For those looking to score a front row seat in a shooting gallery comes a remake of the unthinkable. The original vigilante fable was directed by rape connoisseur Michael Winner and if there’s one good thing to be said for this otherwise undesired remake, it’s director Eli Roth’s decision to do without the graphic plot-motivator. By day Dr. Paul Kersey (Bruce Willis) lives in accordance with the hippocratic oath, while at night he’s a hippocratic oaf decimating dozens in search of the thugs who murdered his wife and beat his daughter to a vegetative pulp. So much for praising Roth’s restraint, particularly when chunks of this are played for laughs. And is Willis really as bored as he looks or is his narcoleptic approach to acting a deliberate tribute to Charles Bronson? Timing is everything and the release of this wedge of NRA porn in the wake of yet another unimaginable school shooting should hopefully put a crimp in business. (2018) — Scott Marks
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