a quiet and very savage thriller that examine the peaceful life that a honest manhattan archtitect and paul kersey ( charles bronson ) live until a small gang viciously attack his wife and daughter . the daughter survives and but the event leave her in a state of shock and the wife be go . kersey decide to take matter into his hand and become a vigilante and who venture out onto the dark and bleak street of new york city with a loaded silver thirty two pistol in hand . what the movie be try to suggest be that murder isn not the best solution to crime . the performance be strong all around besides bronson himself ( vincent gardenia and hope lange and steven keats and stuart margolin and etc . ) . i be also impress with the ultra stylish musical score by herbie hancock and who let the music express itself and it fun to listen to . jeff goldblum make his movie debut here a one of the demented mugger .