The MPAA
rated Death Wish R for strong bloody violence, and language throughout
Not exact matches
Sure, this film possesses a better pedigree than most movies of its type — director Fatih Akin is
rated higher in international film circles than «
Death Wish» remake director Eli Roth, Diane Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes for her performance and the movie is Germany's entry for this year's Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film — and its intentions may be nobler, but, at its heart, it is not markedly different from its genre brethren.
Such concerns become moot once the picture passes a certain point, however, as
Death Wish transforms into just the sort of unapologetically ruthless and violent thriller that rarely gets made nowadays (ie its very existence is a delightful novelty)- with the movie's second half boasting a series of gleefully over-the-top instances of R -
rated mayhem (including an awesomely cringeworthy torture sequence involving a scalpel and battery acid).
Almost 1,700 people were murdered in New York City the year
Death Wish came out, and the
rate didn't start to drop until halfway through the Clinton administration.
Death Wish is
rated R by the MPAA for strong bloody violence, and language throughout
Why is
Death Wish rated R?
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