spoiler ahead . death wish be one of those movie about new york in the 70 and when the city be a toilet . other movie in that era be the french connection and taxi driver . death wish be a movie about revenge . charles bronson play paul kersey and an architect and a liberal and whose wife and daughter be attack by mugger ( a young jeff goldblum . ) in a vicious rape scene . his wife dy and his daughter turn into a vegetable . to get away from it all paul decides to go to tucson for a job where he meet jainchill and a redneck from the country . there he shoot a gun or two and on his way home he get a present from jainchill and a gun . back in the big apple paul want to get even with the mugger and go on a crusade in new york at night . he kill mugger in riverside park and in an alley and in a subway train and at 8th avenue station . in the meanwhile inspector ochoa ( vincent gardenia ) try to catch this mysterious vigilante . in the end he catch paul and order him to leave nyc . although the moral of the story be not my way of thinking and although the end be pretty psycho ( let paul loose in another city ) and it be a very good movie about new york in the 70 . the shot of 1970 new york at night be beautiful and charles bronson give away a fine performance a an innocent man who become a killer . my favorite part about the movie be the soundtrack by herbie hancock . each scene have it own score and doesn not look alike . the rape scene have a dramatic almost horror score while the scene of night new york be very quiet and gloomya shame be that charles bronson get a stigma on play a vigilante ( 4 sequel and from which only part 3 be not bad . the others suck . ) . in the end death wish be one of those very good movie that where make in that period and do not look at it from a political point of view but from a movie watch point of view . then it will good evening entertainment . positive .