Death Wish gets a lot of things wrong, but its biggest offense is being incredibly tone-deaf. The film was pushed back from its originally scheduled November 2017 release date to March 2018 (rumors were that MGM wanted some space from the Las Vegas shooting). That was the right thing to do, but the studio should have pushed it back again after the recent events in Parkland, Florida. This movie simply is not entertainment, and unfortunately is not any sort of escapism either. Movies are supposed to be places where we go to escape from our everyday lives. It is okay for a movie to borrow ideas from the headlines, but when it is done in this way about such a controversial topic, that’s when you should reevaluate its release date—again. Some people might be able to separate the real world from this movie, and even though I personally was unable to do so,...
- 3/2/2018
- by Scott Davis
- CinemaNerdz
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