 Garfield was also unhappy with the final product, calling the film "incendiary" and stated that the film's sequels are all pointless and rancid since they advocate vigilantism unlike his two novels, which make the opposite argument.The film led him to write a follow-up titled "Death Sentence", which was published a year after the film's release.In later years, the film would be liked for its disturbing, serious view of one man's violent war on crime.