Death Wish Review: 2 Ups & 7 Downs

Downs...

7. Bruce Willis' Totally Miserable Performance

There's no denying that Bruce Willis is deep into the "no f***s given" stage of his career, appearing largely in low-rent, straight-to-video thrillers that allow him to sleepwalk his way to an easy payday.

Comparatively, the prospect of him showing up in an Eli Roth-directed Death Wish remake - an actual theatrical release no less! - isn't so bad...at least until you watch it and realise Willis is still phoning it in as usual.

There are genuinely moments in this movie where the Die Hard star seems depressed, and not as an actor playing a man distraught at the murder of his wife (Elizabeth Shue), but as the actor putting his literal, miserable truth on screen.

He's no Charles Bronson in the role of Paul Kersey, that's for sure, and changing Kersey's occupation from an architect to a trauma surgeon does Willis no favours, because at this point in his career he's hilariously unconvincing in that sort of role.

Fingers crossed M. Night Shyamalan's Glass next year might pull the actor out of this horrible funk, because it's genuinely sad to see.