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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
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Overview
Release Date:
6 November 1987 (USA) moreTagline:
The biggest Death Wish ever! morePlot:
Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after a friend's daughter dies from an overdose. full summary | full synopsisUser Comments:
Trading Rape for Action in #4 moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Charles Bronson | ... | Paul Kersey | |
| Kay Lenz | ... | Karen Sheldon | |
| John P. Ryan | ... | Nathan White | |
| Perry Lopez | ... | Ed Zacharias | |
| George Dickerson | ... | Detective Reiner | |
| Soon-Tek Oh | ... | Detective Phil Nozaki (as Soon-Teck Oh) | |
| Dana Barron | ... | Erica Sheldon | |
| Jesse Dabson | ... | Randy Viscovich | |
| Peter Sherayko | ... | Nick Franco | |
| James Purcell | ... | Vince Montono | |
| Michael Russo | ... | Danny Moreno | |
| Danny Trejo | ... | Art Sanella | |
| Daniel Sabia | ... | Al Arroyo | |
| Mike Moroff | ... | Jack Romero | |
| Dan Ferro | ... | Tony Romero |
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View content advisory for parentsRuntime:
99 min | Finland:91 min (cut version) | Norway:94 minCountry:
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1.37 : 1 moreSound Mix:
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West Germany:18 (nf) | Iceland:16 | Australia:MA (TV rating) | USA:R (certificate #28741) | Belgium:16 (video rating) | Finland:K-18 (2005) (uncut) | Finland:(Banned) (1988) (cut) | Finland:K-16 (1990) (cut) | Australia:R | Canada:16+ (Quebec) | Canada:R (Ontario) | Denmark:15 | Norway:18 (video premiere) | Singapore:M18 | UK:18 | Norway:15 (DVD rating) (2005)Filming Locations:
Los Angeles, California, USAMOVIEmeter: 
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In this film, the theme played most in the action scenes were from Missing in Action (1984) and _Invasion U.S.A (1985)_. moreGoofs:
Revealing mistakes: In the morgue scene, when the body of an eighteen-year-old male is uncovered, the "corpse's" eyes visibly move. moreSoundtrack:
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"Death Wish 4" is easily my favorite of the DW series, even though I really like most of the first entry. But you see, I find graphic, luridly depicted rape in films distasteful. I could take it in the first film, because there was at least some thematic and emotional need for it (though I still think it was overboard and gratuitous). Parts 2 and 3 escalated the rape and humiliation sequences and writer/director Michael Winner actually seemed to be trying to get us to enjoy the sight of tortured, crying, beaten, naked woman as much as he obviously did; combine this with zero plot, zero character development, and inept action, and you had some really, really bad flicks. Number four was directed by J. Lee Thompson, a frequent collaborator with Bronson since 1976's "St. Ives." Thompson took the usual DW revenge formula, eliminated the obligatory rape sequence, and ratcheted up the action. So what we have is a Death Wish picture more similar to "Murphy's Law" than any of the other films in the series. Of course Bronson's 80s films are often the butt of jokes (to those who remember them at all, that is) but I happen to enjoy them immensely--there's just something I dig about this charismatic, elderly guy running around shooting bad guys; I can't even explain it. If you dig the salt and pepper Bronson as well, then give DW4 a try.