Another month, another remake. This time, it’s Charles Bronson’s iconic Death Wish, with Bruce Willis taking on the lead role of Paul Kersey. An architect living in New York in the 1974 film, Kersey has been transformed into a trauma surgeon living in Chicago. Let’s just get this out of the way – pretty much every medical-related scene is complete BS. Please, Hollywood, if you insist on making your protagonist a medical professional, at least make a minimal effort to create plausible approximations of medical procedures. Suffice it to say that if I’m ever shot, I NEVER want to be taken to Dr. Paul Kersey’s emergency room.
The plot relies a little too heavily on happy coincidences. The right person carrying the right item gets shot at the right time and comes into the right hospital’s ER during Kersey’s shift a little too often to suit me. And the place is quite blasé about patients’ belongings. I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised about that. A hospital that runs emergencies as incompetently as this one does probably wouldn’t have a big problem with staff looting bodies and rummaging through dead patients’ stuff.
