Charles bronson3/26/2023 ![]() Thugs pop up from behind cars, buildings, and storefronts, all to be mowed down in a sea of gunfire and the last half hour is pure madness. DEATH WISH 3 plays like Charles Bronson’s 90-minute shooting gallery. The action is overblown to comic proportions and I lose count of all the people who are shot, blown up, stabbed, beaten, pushed off of rooftops, and generally maimed during the course of the film. I’ve seen DEATH WISH 3 ma ny times over the years and it becomes funnier as it ages. The wonderfully preposterous DEATH WISH 3 (1985) sends Charles Bronson to a New York City portrayed as a vast burned-out wasteland with tenements occupied by terrified old people and the entire city dominated by gangs of unwashed thugs (and not a cop in sight). Those films Bronson is part of large ensemble casts so I’ve excluded them here). Charles Bronson appeared in 93 films in his five decades as an actor, and here what I think are his ten best (THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN, THE DIRTY DOZEN and THE GREAT ESCAPE should make the cut, but in those films Bronson is part of large ensemble casts so I’ve excluded them here). “I don’t make movies for critics”, he once said, “since they don’t pay to see them anyhow”. A man of few words onscreen and off, Bronson was never a critic’s darling and he had no illusions about his own stardom. It wasn’t until he was in his late 40’s, after the international success of ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST in 1968 (American audiences wouldn’t embrace him until DEATH WISH became a hit five years later) that he became a worldwide megastar. His film debut was in 1951 and he spent the next two decades as a solid character actor with a rugged face, muscular physique and everyman ethnicity that kept him busy in supporting roles as indians, convicts, cowboys, boxers, and gangsters. Bronson did not rise quickly in the Hollywood ranks. But Charles Bronson could coast on presence, charisma, and silent brooding menace like no one’s business and he wound up the world’s most bankable movie star throughout most of the 1970’s. ![]() ![]() He rarely emoted or even changed his expression, and when he did speak, his voice was a reedy whisper. Of all the leading men in the history of Hollywood, Charles Bronson had the least range as an actor. Charles Bronson was the unlikeliest of movie stars. HAPPY BRONSON-CENTENNIAL! Charles Bronson was born in Ehrenfield, PA. “It’s like killing roaches – you have to kill ’em all. ![]()
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