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Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987)
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6 November 1987 (USA)
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The biggest Death Wish ever! more
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Architect/vigilante Paul Kersey takes on the members of a vicious Los Angeles drug cartel to stop the flow of drugs after his girlfriend's daughter dies from an overdose. full summary | full synopsis
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Cast
(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 | ... | Det. 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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99 min | Finland:91 min (cut version) | Norway:94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Finland:(Banned) (1988) (cut) |
Finland:K-16 (1990) (cut) |
Finland:K-18 (2005) (uncut) |
Iceland:16 |
Belgium:16 (video rating) |
West Germany:18 (nf) |
USA:R (certificate #28741) |
New Zealand:R16 |
Australia:R |
Canada:16+ (Quebec) |
Canada:R (Ontario) |
Denmark:15 |
Norway:18 (video premiere) |
Singapore:M18 |
UK:18 |
Norway:15 (DVD rating) (2005)
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Kersey uses the alias "Paul Kimble" in this film. He also used the pseudonymous surname of "Kimble" in Death Wish II (1982) and in Death Wish 3 (1985). (Though according to the book 'Bronson's Loose' by Paul Tablot, Death Wish 4 was intended as a direct sequel to Death Wish II, in the end the only reference to Death Wish II occurs in Kersey's reuse of the name Kimble as an alias, the references of his vigilantism after the death of his daughter, and his residence in Los Angeles.)
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Continuity: During the mugging scene when the three guys are trying to pull the victim out of the car, she was on her stomach with her legs out of the door but in the next shot, she was on her back with her legs in the car.
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Ed Zacharias:
[as Kersey walks to him] Who are you?
Paul Kersey: I'm the guy that set you up.
Ed Zacharias: Why?
Ed Zacharias: [Then Paul opens up his coat pocket and shows the picture of his girlfirend's daughter to Ed] I don't know the girl
Paul Kersey: I DO!
[Then Kersey shoots Ed dead]
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Paul Kersey: I'm the guy that set you up.
Ed Zacharias: Why?
Ed Zacharias: [Then Paul opens up his coat pocket and shows the picture of his girlfirend's daughter to Ed] I don't know the girl
Paul Kersey: I DO!
[Then Kersey shoots Ed dead]
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In Some Brazil
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By this time, Cannon Films' overspending and multiple box office flops were rapidly catching up with them, which promptly resulted in the slashing of their film budgets - most famously with SUPERMAN 4, but also with this one. It's extremely cheap-looking; apparently not that much more was spent than B movie companies still in the theatrical business were spending around this time. It leads to a lot of shoddy moments, like an explosion in a restaurant that is clearly superimposed instead of actually filming an explosion taking place there.
There are other goofs, like how you can see the squib-firing cables trailing out of the pantlegs of characters who get shot. Or how a window shatters a second before someone actually runs into it. Clearly, veteran director J. Lee Thompson's heart was not into this movie, possibly because of his advanced age at this point of his career. The action scenes are pretty lifeless, not helped by them being incredibly inept in their editing (by Thompson's son) at times. It's too bad Michael Winner didn't stay with the series. Even given the sometimes questionable decisions in his career (including in this series), he almost certainly would have pumped up the energy here. The only bright spots come from a few unintentional humorous moments - "It's those damn drugs!", a bomb exploding SEVERAL times, or how Cannon relentlessly promoted itself in the video store scene.
Bronson himself doesn't seem very energetic. The screenplay really doesn't give a lot of extraordinary things for him to do or say here. Curiously, the screenplay was written by a woman, and in fact this female touch sets things up in the beginning that actually have a lot of potential. However, the screenplay abruptly changes track and ignores further exploration of these things to become a dumb shoot-up. I wonder if this was actually how it was written, or things during the production resulted in last-minute rewrites or reedits - it would certainly explain how Kay Lenz's character suddenly disappears early on, and doesn't show up again until the last few minutes!