
Under a new identity, Paul Kersey returns to New York City, seven long years after the events of Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), to attend the glamorous fashion show of his fiancée, Olivia Regent. However, Olivia's criminal former husband, Tommy O'Shea, has other plans in store for her, and after a deadly confrontation, Paul finds himself back to square one. Now, once more, with the police unable, or unwilling, to get to the bottom of this bloody case, it is up to Kersey... (Full plot summary below)
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Under a new identity, Paul Kersey returns to New York City, seven long years after the events of Death Wish 4: The Crackdown (1987), to attend the glamorous fashion show of his fiancée, Olivia Regent. However, Olivia's criminal former husband, Tommy O'Shea, has other plans in store for her, and after a deadly confrontation, Paul finds himself back to square one. Now, once more, with the police unable, or unwilling, to get to the bottom of this bloody case, it is up to Kersey, the grizzled messenger of death, and his snub-nosed, .357 Magnum Smith and Wesson Model 66 revolver, to right a wrong, and see to it that justice is served. Is there an escape from Kersey, and the face of death?
Leave your thoughts about Death Wish V: The Face of Death.
| Chicago Sun-TimesErnest TuckerAlthough this entry is competently directed, the series seems to have lost the zip and flashes of wit that made the first Death Wish so memorably repellent. |
| VarietyJoe LeydonSlackly paced and unexciting, Death Wish V comes off as a flat-footed, by-the-numbers programmer that, judging from what’s onscreen, failed to spark much enthusiasm among the people who made it. |
| Entertainment WeeklyMichael SauterAn appropriately absurd finale for a series that long ago went over the top. |
| Washington PostRichard HarringtonGrecian Formula and body corsets notwithstanding, Bronson looks like one of those sculpted potato heads and moves with appropriate grace. This is not the face of death; it's the face of old. |
| The New York TimesStephen HoldenEven though its characters tote cellular phones and live in ultramodern high-rise apartments, the film still has a sleazy 1970's ambiance. And while Mr. Bronson goes through the motions of revenge with his characteristic deliberation, he looks puffy and sounds terminally bored. |
| User ReviewGloom-shroomhonestly, I thought the different ways Paul Kersey kills the mobs is pretty fresh |
| User ReviewJames12HarushiThis movie is so bad it highlights how **** some people's tastes in movies can be |