Directed by:
Michael Winner

Starring:
Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey
Deborah Raffin as Kathryn Davis
Ed Lauter as Richard S. Shriker
Martin Balsam as Bennett
Gavan O'Herlihy as Fraker
Kirk Taylor as Giggler
Alex Winter as Hermosa
Tony Spiridakis as Angel
Ricco Ross as The Cuban
Tony Britts as Tulio

• Death Wish 3 is a movie mistake lover's dream. It probably has the most mistakes I've seen in a big budget studio film (o.k. the budget isn't that big). I promise after I see this awfully made, camp masterpiece again there will be more!

• In one scene, Charles Bronson shoots a thug who then hits a wall and blood smears from his back on to the wall. The only problem is that when he turns there is no bullet wound on his back.

• In another scene an old lady says, "Get outta' my face!" to a thug, but her mouth doesn't move!

• Everyone in the film except Charles Bronson wears the same clothes throughout the entire film.

• When Bronson and the police chief are shooting at the baddies, the shadow of the camera is clearly visible.

• When Bronson throws the African-American hood off of the roof, it is clearly a dummy, and the next day it is in a completely different position then when it landed.

• When an old lady is on fire, you can clearly see this is a stuntman with a bad wig, and flame retardant goo is covering his face.

• In one scene, when Bronson is firing his gun by a brick wall, you can clearly see bullet holes in the wall appear and disappear.

• Bronson's friend carries around a zip gun throughout the entire last half of the film, but why doesn't he pick up one of the gang-members' guns? They would be a lot more efficient.

• One of the gang-members gets hit in the face with one of Bronson's "home-alone"-type traps. In this scene his two front teeth get stuck in the board, but in order for this to happen he would have to have no jaw, and have his head looking straight up, and even then it would still be impossible.

• In one scene it changes from raining, to not raining, to raining, so on and so forth.

• Bronson would have been dead after firing a bazooka in such close range.
  • Addition: Yes, he would have died or got badly burned. He sits next to a wall and fires, when in real life you need at least 3-5 meters of empty space behind you when firing a bazooka.

• How does a 60 to 70 year old man carry around and fire a high-caliber machine gun that is meant for mounted use only? The kick alone would probably give old Charlie a heart attack!

• Bronson gives a kid an ice cream bar inside of a store. But, he gives it while in the store, not after, therefore the kid is stuck with the cost for the ice cream.

• The old man tells Bronson that the gang leader does all of his crimes in private, but later the leader is seen participating in an axe murder in public!

• In one hilariously edited scene, the bad guy (with a wonderfully bad reverse mohawk) mows down a group of police officers with an uzi. Then the scene cuts to an old good guy looking out of his window smiling! This isn't a mistake, but the body count in this movie is over 75 people! That is an awful lot for a film about one man's revenge against a couple of gangsters who killed his friend. Actually now that I think of it I'll count that as a mistake.

• In one scene ---- is in a car that then hits another car and explodes. If you look, you can see that her car would hit the back of the other car, but when the angle changes it hits the front of it.

• When Bronson's old friend is thrown down a flight of stairs, he is obviously replaced by a stuntman.

• In one scene, gang members are smashing the windows of cars. If you look, you can see that one window is up then suddenly down, and then up again.

• In one scene, bikers are throwing hand grenades at a building, but if you look you can see that one of the grenades bounces back under their bikes but does not explode.

• Bronson's old guy friend pulls out a machine gun to fire at the crooks. If you look the bullets are going into his gun and out the other. The bullets going in are real and facing forward, but the ones coming out are backwards (!) shorter than the other bullets and are obviously made of rubber (!)

• This same old guy then hits a gang member in the face, but if you look he can barely hold the gun, and he swings really slow, but the gang member still acts like he's been hit really hard.
  
  - David (all above)

• I was lucky enough to catch this no-brainer movie on TV and caught the following goofs:
  In the scene where Paul Kersey (Charlie Bronson) is talking to his old friend Bennett (Martin Balsam), the newspapers beside Bennett on the couch are all messy and his hat lies on top of them. Now, 2 shots (a few seconds) later the newspapers are neatly folded and the hat lies next to them. Bennett doesn't move during the shot changes. (TV) - Webmaster

• Bennett's jacket has a zipper, which is usually zipped up to the middle part of his body. The zipper seems to have a life of its own as it changes heights continuously in various shots. (TV) - Webmaster

• When Paul decides it's time for bigger caliber, he gets in a cab, which has a dented back door. He proceeds to pick up a machine gun and gets back into the dented cab. But, when he gets off the cab at his apartment the dent is gone, the cab is shining and lacks a few other details the original cab had. (TV) - Webmaster

• When firing the machine gun at various silly-looking punks Paul is holding the barrel of it, which to my knowledge, gets burning hot after a short while. He would have burned his hand badly. (TV) - Webmaster

• A tiny goof - When Paul and his police pal are on a kill-crazy-rampage, Paul blasts away a gang member in a blue jeans jacket. The scene is shot from behind the gangster. As he gets shot the bullet penetrates though his body, coming out of his back. As it does so, one drop of blood hits the camera lens in the upper right corner. *Splat*. It is visible for half-a-second or so. I had to freeze the frame to actually see that it was a blood stain. (TV) - Webmaster