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Death Wish II / Death Wish 3 / Death Wish 4: The Crackdown Blu-ray Reviews: The Cannon Days
It took eight years for someone to make a sequel to the original film adaptation of Brian Garfield’s novel, Death Wish. To this day, many speculate whether or not the film should have even bore a sequel — let alone the entire five-film franchise that came to pass over an impressive twenty-year span. Whereas the classic 1974 Charles Bronson revenge flick could have very well remained a stalwart and standout film to moviegoers and scholars alike, Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus — the boys behind the notorious production company of Cannon Films — had other ideas: mainly, to make a whole lotta moolah.
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