THIS TIME IT’S WAR!

In Los Angeles, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) is hired by a tabloid publisher (John P. Ryan) who wants him to strike at two drug-trading gangs.

This fourth chapter finds a director that Bronson had worked with on several occasions, and also replaces street thugs with two rivaling mob organizations that Kersey pits against each other, Yojimbo-style.

Conventional 1980s B action, where drugs become more important than the theme of revenge. Dumb as always, but well paced at times.

1987-U.S. 99 min. Color. Directed by J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Charles Bronson (Paul Kersey), Kay Lenz (Karen Sheldon), John P. Ryan (Nathan White), Perry Lopez, Mike Moroff, Dan Ferro, Danny Trejo. 

Trivia: Followed by Death Wish V: The Face of Death (1994).