4. Murderous Revenge Is The Best Kind - Death Wish
Charles Bronson's performance as Paul Kersey is much of what makes this quintology of films fun to watch, even if the moral core is fundamentally rotten. After Kersey's wife is murdered and his daughter is brutally raped, Kersey goes on a vigilante spree, taking down rapists, murderers and thieves with a brutal efficiency that goes from badass to scary in just a few short scenes. Critically, the film was called out for its hyper right-wing political sentiment regarding crime, even if it did reflect a feeling of urban paranoia in the mid 1970s. The point is that while it might seem permissible for Kersey to exact bloody revenge on the man who killed his wife, does it not seem totally overboard for Kersey to start gunning down people who are simply mugging citizens? It's not as if the film really confronts this issue, either; it seems to very much champion what Kersey is doing, as do the four sequels that follow it.