Look out, serial killers, Charles Bronson is coming for your ass.

After having watched a few Death Wish movies, I decided to try something similar but not exactly the same. The biggest difference here is that the character, Leo Kessler, is a detective who takes some liberties with the law, but is not quite the full-on vigilante revenge killer as Paul Kersey from the Death Wish series.

The story focuses on the main antagonist serial killer, Warren, who murders the women who refuse to go out with him. Like a true nature’s incel, he was born to be wild, because if you can’t woo them with money or personality, just kill them. As a slightly more intelligent killer, he carefully sets up alibi situations in order to avoid prosecution in the future and even goes to great lengths to do his killing in the nude so as to not get any blood on his clothing. Nothing quite like a wang-out murder extravaganza.

There are some interesting twists and plot holes, but overall it wasn’t too bad. I especially liked how Bronson’s character was faced with the moral dilemma of framing the murderer to achieve justice or letting him go in the interest of maintaining the law. The thing I like more about the Paul Kersey character in Death Wish is that he’s silent, but deadly. He doesn’t talk very much, so he ends up being kind of like a human terminator of sorts. The Leo Kessler character in this movie, is a bit of a chatty Kathy and that just doesn’t suit Charles Bronson very well.

Looking at the poster, they make a big deal about the “deadline” as if timing and the title had anything to do with anything. It really didn’t as far as I could tell. There was a rush to stop the killer at the end, but I don’t even think that happened around midnight.

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