Release Date: Mar 11, 1983 Limited
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Charles Bronson at 63 or so, continues his vigilante persona in this run-of-the-mill crime drama about a Richard Speck-style killer who knifes young nurses to death. There is no doubt that the film exploits both the heinous, 1966 Speck murder of eight nurses in Chicago and an audience's willingness to go along with the Bronson character, Leo Kessler, when he uses illegal means to entrap criminals. The captured killer, Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) manages to go free because of red tape and the need
R, 1 hr. 41 min.
Mar 11, 1983 Limited
Feb 4, 2003
MGM
All Critics (8) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (1) | Rotten (3) | DVD (1)
A real button-pusher with a dynamite ending. Gene Davis is memorable as the sicko villain.
...a routine police thriller that is, for the most part, slow moving and uneventful.
Wow, this could have easily been turned into a horror movie. It's a really intense thriller, lots of blood and nudity and violence. I really liked it. The actors were good, especially Gene Davis, who played the criminal. The plot is very realistic, but then Bronson's character takes justice into his own hands and
November 3, 2011Super Reviewer
Although it's not a Death Wish film, it might as well be, with Charles Bronson the cop kicked off the force for falsifying evidence against a murderer.
February 1, 2007
Super Reviewer
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