DEATH WISH V: THE FACE OF DEATH (1994)

MORGAN'S RATING

Paul Kersey has been retired from vigilantism for several years. Under an assumed identity, he's adopted a new life as a teacher in a small town college outside New York. Paul is a changed man. He's even fallen in love and become engaged to Olivia, a former fashion model turned industry entrepreneur. But fate won't leave Kersey alone. On a visit to Manhattan he finds himself caught in the middle of a street shootout. Then he learns that his fiancee is the victim of a protection racket run by her ex-husband, mobster Tommy O'Shea. When Olivia goes to the district attorney for help, Tommy has her disfigured, then brutally killed. Once again, Kersey becomes the relentless vigilante. Only this time, instead of relying only on .357, Kersey uses some creative technology to avenge his lover's murder!

Charles Bronson (Paul Kersey), Leslie-Anne Down (Olivia Regent), Michael Parks (Tommy O'Shea), Chuck Shamata (Sal Paconi), Kevin Lund (Chuck Paconi), Robert Joy (Freddie 'Flakes'), Saul Rubinek (Tony Hoyle), Miguel Sandoval (Hector Vasquez), Kenneth Walsh (Lt. Mickey King), Lisa Inouye (Janice Omori), Erica Lancaster (Chelsea Regent), Jefferson Mappin (Big Al), Michael Dunston (Reg), Claire Rankin (Maxine), Sharolyn Sparrow (Dawn), Anna Starnino (Sister), Elena Kudaba (Housekeeper), Andrea Mann (Hoyle's Wife), Scott Spidell (Frankie), Tim MacMenamin (Mickey), Sandro Limotta (Angel), Alison Sealy-Smith (Doctor), Michelle Moffett (TV Reporter), Allan A. Goldstein (Toy Store Clerk), Marcello Meleca (Hoyle's Boy), Tony Meyler (Agent), Dougie Richardson (Cab Driver).

NO JUDGE. NO JURY. NO APPEALS. NO DEALS.

FACTS

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

RELEASE DATE: January 14th, 1994 (USA) BOX OFFICE OPENING: $503,936 (USA) BOX OFFICE RESULT: $1.7 million (USA)

DIRECTOR: Allan A. Goldstein. WRITERS: Michael Colleary and Allan A. Goldstein. PRODUCER: Damian Lee. ASSOCIATE PRODUCER: Helder Goncalves. EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Ami Artzi and Menahem Golan. ORIGINAL MUSIC: Terry Plumeri. DISTRIBUTOR: TriMark Pictures.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"More action than the first four put together." -- Bob Healy, Satalite News Network

"As good as, if not better than, the first." -- Vernon Scott, UPI

QUOTES

Tommy O'Shea: Do guns make you nervous? Paul Kersey: Guns have their uses. Morons with guns make me nervous.

"Somehow, writer-director Allan Golstein has managed to make a film that looks and feels older than its original mold. Even the dark film stock looks like 1974, not 1994. It terms of audiences, this may be the ultimate death wish." -- Richard Harrington, Washington Post