History Film / DeathWish3

* MadeOfPlasticine: A subdued, and unintentionally hilarious example: Rodriguez's wife Maria is raped by Fraker's gang in one scene and Rodriguez and Kersey are notified that she is in the hospital with a broken arm. By the time they arrive approximately a half hour later, the women is dead from that same broken arm causing complications. Kersey disbelievingly reminds the doctor that tells them of Maria's passing that they were told she ''only'' had a broken arm.

* MoreDakka: Kersey uses a .30 caliber M1919. Bennet also uses an MG-42 but the gun jams. [[WhatCouldHaveBeen The aftermath would have been awesome.]]

* MohsScaleOfViolenceHardness: It rates a 7, due to the rape scene. Otherwise, the non-sexual violence is on a level 6, because of plentiful non-spurting blood squibs.

* FamousLastWords:
** "Look after my things until I get back." Charley
** "No!" Hector
** "We're stealing the fucking car, what's it to you?" Car Thief #2
** "Now you gonna die." Car Thief #1
** "I'll be here." Davies
** "Bet me." Manny Fraker

Kersey returns to New York to visit an old buddy from his days in the Korean War, only to find him dead after another attack by gang-punks. He is mistakenly arrested for the murder, but the head cop offers him a deal: reporting any gang activity to him in exchange for being able to kill all the punks he wants. Kersey moves into the buddy's old apartment, where he and his neighbors are viciously attacked by the gang, and things escalate until an all-out urban war erupts in the final fifteen minutes, leading to Creator/CharlesBronson's biggest onscreen kill count ever. It is also the movie that popularized the Wildey Survivor pistol in .475 Wildey Magnum (and saved Wildey from then-imminent bankruptcy in the process).

* DullSurprise: Creator/AlexWinter described Bronson's performance as akin to watching a man golfing rather than acting.

-->'''WebVideo/TheRageaholic:''' You know, I'd say women in the Death Wish series were made of tissue paper, but so far two of them have survived sex with Charles Bronson!''

* ChekhovsGag: And not a pretty one for the criminals: shortly after arriving, Kersey helps one of the couples who accomodate him by placing a trap in their home that works by sending a spring-loaded plank to the thief's face (and someone triggers it, making him loose a few teeth). In the climactic battle, one of the gang members kicks open a door to try to attack the people inside and a similar trap (this one with a knife embedded on it) activates, impaling said knife in the guy's skull.
* ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted, with fatal results for those who try it against Kersey. When a mook hides behind a garbage can, Kersey shoots at him with his [[HandCannon .475 Wildey Magnum]] (which is the most powerful semi-automatic pistol in the world, even more powerful than the Desert Eagle). The bullet goes right through the garbage can and hits the mook. Kersey puts another round into him anyway [[BlownAcrossTheRoom just for good measure]].

* CopsNeedTheVigilante: The chief Inspector of the local police precinct gives Paul Kersey carte blanche to do whatever it takes to eliminate the criminal gang that is terrorizing the town (because [[CrapsackWorld crime rates overall are high enough that the police's hands are tied]], and this has given the gang the idea that they have free reign to perform said terrorizing), complete with covering up for him to the press.

* BadassGrandpa: Bronson was well in his sixties when he reprised his role as Kersey here.

* OhCrap: Fraker's face just before [[spoiler: Kersey [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill obliterates him with a rocket launcher]]]]

* HopeSpot: Paul and Kathryn getting together, giving him a brief moment of happiness. . .right before she's killed. As well, she briefly regains consciousness as her car rolls downhill, making the viewer think she'll be able to stop the car in time. Of course, she isn't.

* SexyDiscretionShot: Paul and Kathryn kiss. . . and the next thing we see is her lying in bed, obviously post-coital.

-->'''[[WebVideo/TheRageaholic The Rageaholic]]:''' In many ways, the second ''Death Wish'' film is a remake of the first, but with the violence, brooding atmosphere and omnipresent sexual assault cranked up to eleven. But fret thee not, because by ''Death Wish 3'' we're gonna find a way to crank that violence up to a twenty-fuckin'-''eight!''

* AlanSmithee: Don Jakoby objected to extensive rewrites of his script and asked for his name to be removed from the credits. The film used the pseudonym "Michael Edmonds" to credit its screenwriter.

* MadeOfPlasticine: A subdued, and unintentionally hilarious example: Rodriguez's wife is raped by Fraker's gang in one scene and Rodriguez and Kersey are notified that she is in the hospital with a broken arm. By the time they arrive approximately a half hour later, the women is dead from that same broken arm causing complications. Kersey disbelievingly reminds the doctor that tells them of Mrs. Rodriguez's passing that they were told she ''only'' had a broken arm.
* ManOnFire: Three people burn to death in during the climactic urban war between the criminals and the locals.

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Demonstrated with great drama in a single scene: when gang members barge into the apartment of an old man and his wife, the man fears enough for his life that he draws a gun and intimidates the criminals into running away. Alas, an "anonymous call" informs the police that the man owns the gun (it was unlicensed) and a cop comes to take it away, disregarding the old man's flat-out ''pleading'' for help. The ''same gang members'' come back ''that very night'' to take everything that is not nailed down in the apartment.

* DirtyCop: Inspector Shriker is a rare non-villainous example. When Kersey is wrongfully arrested at the beginning of the movie, he gives him carte blanche to play vigilante again. Which results in dozens of dead thugs.

* CoolGuns: Kersey uses a Wildey Hunter, which was Bronson's personally-owned pistol in RealLife. In the climax, he uses a Browning M1919 to mow down dozens of street gang member who are terrorizing his community.

* CrooksAreBetterArmed: The climactic shootout has Kersey and a cop (both armed with handguns) facing off against a gang of crooks armed with black-market assault rifles and sub-machine guns.
** Subverted early on in the fight when Bronson is running around with a freaking [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece Browning Machine Gun left over from]] WWII.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: All the street gangs of New York are multiethnic.
* EveryCarIsAPinto: A more ludicrous example happens, when the car Kathryn is in slowly rolls down a hill, hits another car and they're both engulfed by huge explosions.

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: Demonstrated with great drama in a single scene: when gang members barge into the apartment of an old man and his wife, the man fears enough for his life that he draws a gun and intimidates the criminals into running away. Alas, an "anonymous call" informs the police that the man owns the gun (it was unlicensed) and a cop comes to take it away, disregarding the old man's flat-out ''pleads'' for help. The ''same gang members'' come back ''that very night'' to take everything that is not nailed down in the apartment.

* PoliceAreUseless: It appears that the NYPD does not do that much to quell gang related violence in the city. They even confiscate guns belonging to the residents of the area terrorized by Fraker's gang. Only in the end we see them fight the bad guys, but with casualties that makes the townspeople and Kersey more effective in fighting the bad guys than them.
** Also lampshaded by Rodriguez:

** Furthermore, very early on (and then demonstrated on the scene described on "TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw") it is mentioned that the police are on the lookout to confiscate any and all firearms within the neighborhood, regardless of the fact that they are licensed or not or that taking them away inevitably leaves the residents defenseless against the psychotic (and now solely armed) gangs.

* RapeAsDrama: Maria, one of Kersey's friends, is raped and killed despite Kersey's best efforts to protect her. The bad guys also attempt to rape a woman during the shootout, but fails when Kersey kills them and saves the unnamed woman.

* SchmuckBait: Soon after arriving to New York, Kersey buys a new car "as bait". Guess what happens to the creeps that try to steal it that same night...

* VigilanteMan: According to various {{Noodle Incident}}s cited by Shriker, Kersey has committed vigilante killings in a number of cities other than [[Film/DeathWish New York]] and [[Film/DeathWishII Los Angeles]], implying that he's taken up vigilantism for its own sake rather than just acting out of revenge.

* RecycledSoundtrack: Although Music/JimmyPage is credited as composer, he had no involvement with the movie. Creator/MichaelWinner reused Page's score for ''Film/DeathWishII'' in the editing stage, and rearranged the music for the actual soundtrack, which included Mike Moran (credited as "arranger and conductor") on synthesizers.

* WretchedHive: The series started in New York City and this film moves the action back to New York. The city seems to have further decayed in the intervening period. The 1970s original film mostly featured muggers targeting random prey. This one features a street gang systematically terrorizing an entire area.

* PopStarComposer: [[Music/LedZeppelin Jimmy Page]] did the score.

* HandCannon: Paul's friend "Wildey" (more specifically, the .475 Wildey Magnum). Currently the most powerful semiautomatic handgun in the world.
--->'''The Rageaholic''': Why does that ''howitzer'' have a handle and ''[[PrecisionFStrike fucking]]'' trigger?!?

-->'''[[WebVideo/TheRageaholic The Ragaholic]]:''' In many ways, the second ''Death Wish'' film is a remake of the first, but with the violence, brooding atmosphere and omnipresent sexual assault cranked up to eleven. But fret thee not, because by ''Death Wish 3'' we're gonna find a way to crank that violence up to a twenty-fuckin'-''eight!''

--> [[WebVideo/TheRageaholic The Ragaholic]]:''' In many ways, the second ''Death Wish'' film is a remake of the first, but with the violence, brooding atmosphere and omnipresent sexual assault cranked up to eleven. But fret thee not, because by ''Death Wish 3'' we're gonna find a way to crank that violence up to a twenty-fuckin'-''eight!''