“Death Wish” (*** out of four) was a riveting remake of the Charles Bronson classic about a mild-mannered surgeon (Bruce Willis) whose wife and daughter (Elisabeth Shue and Cammilla Morrone) are brutally attacked turning him into a vigilante on the streets of Chicago. The 1974 original is updated to the contemporary social media era with lots of action, tension, and plenty of timely moral ambiguity about gun laws and taking the laws into one’s own hands. But what really holds the movie together is Willis who gives his strongest performance in years as a man who becomes a reluctant action hero. One of director Eli Roth’s more unusual films for him but one of his best.

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