Plot;
Paul Kersey is back for the 5th and final time, he is now living in New York City again and is using the name Paul Stewart. We see him at a fashion show, in backstage gangster Tommy O'shea played by Michael Parks and his goons barge in. Tommy threatens Olivia (Kersey's girlfriend) who is his ex wife and mother to his child. Olivia later tells Kersey about the fight they had backstage and shows Paul the bruises. Paul then goes to Tommy to talk to him about this and ends up with a gun pointed at him. He hides the gun when he sees his daughter arrive.
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| Generic gang boss.... |
Two police officers show up at Kersey's house. They know that Kersey is in a witness protection program and is using the name Paul Stewart. The two officers talk about Tommy and say they have been after him for years, they want Olivia to testify against him. In the evening Paul and Olivia are in a restaurant, Paul proposes to Olivia and she accepts. She goes to the bathroom where she is attacked by one of Tommy's goons Freddy Flakes, he grabs her head and bashes it into the mirror which causes her face to be disfigured.
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| Disfigured or badly cut? You decide. |
Paul gets a good look at Freddy and they go to the hospital. The doctor says she will need reconstructive surgery. Paul is now angry and talks to the police on what will be done, they warn him not to do any of his old tricks. Tommy then goes around the city killing more and more people when one night they end up at Olivia's house and shoot the place up. They shoot Olivia in the back and kill her, Paul jumps from the roof into the rubbish below to escape.
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| Poster |
Tommy is now cleared of all charges of killing her and now wants full custody of his daughter. Paul does not want this to happen so he tells Tommy to leave but he knocks Paul out in his home. Paul now has to return to his Vigilante ways to get justice. He decides to poison one of Tommy's men by putting the poison in a cannoli. Paul then kills Freddy flakes by using a remote control football which blows up.
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| Your Dandruff problem is cured... |
Someone then tells Tommy that Paul is the infamous Vigilante and he is next to be killed. That someone is a police officer which goes to Paul's apartment to kill him but Paul is just too fast and kills him first. Tommy, now paranoid hires three thugs to kill Paul by using his daughter as the bait. Paul goes to the meeting area and saves Chelsea. Paul kills all of the thugs and cuts Tommy's face with a glass bottle to show what he did to Olivia. He then pushes Tommy into a pool of acid.
Paul then walks away from the scene of the crime for one final time.
Extras;
None, Zero, Ziltch.
0/5
Picture quality;
Soul Media have brought this film onto Blu-ray with a poor encode and from a Pal source which has sped up the film from it's original runtime. The picture quality never impresses but is just OK most of the time. I did notice an error around the 55 minute mark where the screen freezes for 4 seconds.
2.5/5
Sound Quailty;
We just get a 2.0 Dolby Digital english track which sounds poor and not very clear.
2/5
Overall this release is not impressive. The film can be very slow and the action scenes are few and far between. Bronson is really showing his age here and does not appear in the most the scenes. He also is not as hands on as he would have been in the previous sequels. This is what you really call a struggling sequel, really scraping the bottom of the barrel now.
Not Recommended
Andrew
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