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Title: If you like being manipulated- this is your movie!
Review: I remember this film from my youth as being a great movie, and people cheering in the theatre as the plot unfolded. However, the intervening years have changed my opinion.One of the greatest disservices it does is portray New York City as a uniform cesspool of unchecked crime. It is illogical that Paul Kersey's family would live in a part of town where street thugs would so brazenly roam. And, although it does make an attempt to show why Kersey, the man of peace, turns into the avenger, it takes place too swiftly.Otherwise, this movie is talky, has LOUSY and irrelevant music, spends a great deal of time in digression, and is unrealistically resolved. The DVD I viewed was a terrible transfer too, but this might not apply to the one being sold here.I was more than disappointed.
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