Line #6 Film/DeathWish2018


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:''"They called him a guardian angel."'']]
3	->''"If a man really wants to protect what's his, he has to do it for himself."''
4	-->-- '''Ben'''
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6	In this remake of the [[Film/DeathWish 1974 crime classic]], Paul Kersey (Creator/BruceWillis) is a Chicago surgeon who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter is hospitalized. With the police not being able to help with the murder, Paul decides to take matters into his own hands and bring the ones responsible for the attack on his family to justice. As he kills any criminal he encounters, he soon catches the attention of the media who begin to wonder if he is a grim reaper or a guardian angel.
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8	This is the very first film released by Mirror Releasing, now called Creator/UnitedArtists Releasing.
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10	'''Previews:''' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_I4zqC7GN8 Trailer 1]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzILu6yyA20 Trailer 2]].
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12	!!''Death Wish'' contains examples of:
13	* AdaptationalJobChange: Paul was an accountant in the novel, and an architect in the original film series. Here, he's a surgeon.
14	* AdaptationOriginConnection: In the original ''Death Wish'', [[spoiler:the crooks that raped and killed Kersey's family were just a bunch of random crooks that came and went into the New York City dark and Kersey never encounters, because he doesn't knows anything about them other than "they exist".]] In this ''Death Wish'', [[spoiler:they are soldiers of Knox, and Kersey gets the satisfaction of wiping them all out.]]
15	* BigBad: [[spoiler:Knox]] is the one responsible for leading the crooks who killed Kersey's wife.
16	* ChekhovsGun: Or rather Chekhov's gun [[spoiler:storage unit. A coffee table with a concealed compartment for quick access to a rifle is seen early on, advertised by a gun shop]] . This, or something similar, is seen again in the film's climax.
17	* ContrivedCoincidence: Right after Paul decides to get a gun, he conveniently acquires one that falls off a victim he is treating at the hospital. Despite the gun falling off him in the middle of a crowded operating room full of medical staff, no one notices the gun fall to the ground or Paul picking it up.
18	* TheDragon: Tate "the Fish" Karp.
19	* EvenEvilHasStandards: Unlike the crooks in the original, most of the crooks during the first home invasion are strictly there to rob the Kerseys. Only Joe seems inclined towards rape, but he is told multiple times by his two cohorts “no fucking games” regarding Jordan, and is even stopped from getting handsy with her.
20	* GunsAkimbo: Kersey briefly wields a machine gun and handgun during the final showdown.
21	* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Kersey uses some of his medical knowledge against Joe, one criminal among those who had harmed his family, to get information on the rest.
22	* LighterAndSofter: While it's still an R-rated, violent movie, it's much lighter than the original 1974 movie and especially ''Film/DeathSentence''.
23	* ManlyTears: Kersey sheds these after his wife's murder and [[spoiler:when Jordan awakens from her coma.]]
24	* MercyKill: Ben puts a deer out of its misery after it's fatally wounded by poachers in the beginning.
25	* RailingKill: One mook is killed like this during the final showdown, after being shot with a machine gun and handgun by Kersey.
26	* SequelHook: Much like the original, the movie ends with Kersey pointing a finger gun at a mugger, suggesting his vigilantism will continue.
27	* ShownTheirWork: Kersey's first outing as a vigilante results in him getting a nasty gash on his left hand from having an improper grip on his gun. "Slide bite" is a relatively common injury among untrained shooters like Kersey, as the two police detective investigating the shooting quickly notice.
28	* SympatheticMurderer: There is debate about this among people in Chicago, but most of them view Kersey this way. Even one of the detectives on the case seems to, although he still can't prove Kersey did it.
29	* VigilanteMan: Just as in the original film, Paul Kersey begins a one-man war against criminals after a criminal gang murders his wife and seriously wounds his daughter.
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31	->''[[Music/AcDc ♫ Back in black\
32	I hit the sack\

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