Death Wish
I love this. Genres don't need reinventing and stories don't need new angles. This is the revenge thriller genre taken back to basics.
Some crooks kill his wife, so he tracks them down so he can kill them back. No muss, no fuss, just revenge. He hasn't been abused by the system, he's not oppressed, he's not down on his luck, there's no political angle, no racial angle, and no identity politics angle. It's just a dude out for revenge and that's it. Hallelujah!
It's also based on the 1974 film of the same name starring Charles Bronson...
... which was based on the 1972 novel of the same name...
... which had a sequel in 1975 called Death Sentence...
... which was adapted into an entirely different film starring Kevin Bacon in 2007...
... which was directed by James Wan, the same man who directed another movie in 2015 you may have heard of...
... which starred Dwayne Johnson, who also starred in a different movie in 2013...
... which also starred Bruce Willis, which brings us back to Death Wish. And that's the six degrees of Kevin Bacon.
Death Wish (2018) is rated R for strong bloody violence, and language throughout.
Red Sparrow
Red Sparrow is about a Russian agent who is trained to use her sexuality to compromise targets for purposes of espionage or assassination.
It's just silly. Jennifer Lawrence is a bit of a political loudmouth and everyone knows she's quite the feminist. Yet here she is playing a character that would have no story were it not for her ability to get men to objectify her. Very strange.
Red Sparrow is rated R for strong violence, torture, sexual content, language and some graphic nudity. How empowering.
Big Shot Critic
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