The women die quickly and the men to do all the dirty work. People cheer after an old white guy shoots a black man in the street. The police encourage a vigilante to kill adolescents and delinquents. New York is really painted in a urban grit where gang violence has taken over. Does Paul Kersey really need a bazooka? Yes, he absolutely needs to fire one off in the boss fight, and Jimmy Page needs to score it.

Part of me entertained the idea to humanize the gangs, which isn't the movie's intention. I wonder how he would react if The Warriors were thrown into the mix. Would he kill them without hestitation like all the other scum on the streets? Or would he let them go back to Coney Island? Damn modern times trying to tell me the violent retaliation in this movie wouldn't fly at all if it were made today, but God bless the 80s.