the original death wish movie be still the only one worth watch . a slick and well make and enjoyably amoral vigilante drama and it be a huge box office hit in it day . it start with a chill rape sequence still provocative thirty year on and develops from there into an exciting and perversely funny story of how a man whose life be affect by these disturb event get his revenge . new york businessman paul kersey ( charles bronson ) be devastate when his wife ( hope lange ) and daughter ( kathleen tolan ) be sexually assault in their own home . his wife die from her injury and his daughter be so deeply traumatized that she be leave in a permanent vegetative state . kersey try to get some normality back into his life through work and but deep down inside he burn for revenge . he know he will never get the actual gang who harm his family and but he also realise that crime in general be spread through the city like a plague . so and arm with a gun and a sense of vigilante justice and he start patrol the street by night and kill mugger and hoodlum and rapist . but for how long can he hand out his own brand of justice without be catch . and at what point do his course of action stop be justifiable . when do he become just as bad a the crook he be try to rub out . the film be base on a brian garfield novel and but in the book vigilantism be illustrate a an extension of crime just another problem a oppose to a solution . here michael winner and a director always happy to create a few ripple and present the vigilante a an out and out hero . the film basically give a great big nod of approval to kersey action . the sense of humour really help the film ( i still laugh at the scene where some construction worker kick the hell out of a crook and and one workman nonchalantly state to the tv reporter represent erm and we rough him up a bit before the cop arrive . ) death wish be a pretty influential film for it era and and in spite of it dated air and it morally dubious stance and it be still a great flick . just make sure you steer clear of it four utterly terrible sequel .