'Sounds awesome!' Critic's swipe at NRA in 'Death Wish' review seems to have backfired

We don’t know anything about the movie “Death Wish” with Bruce Willis because we haven’t seen it, but one reviewer is forcing in a political connection to current events:

#DeathWish Review: A Catatonic Bruce Willis Stars in Eli Roth’s Dangerously Entertaining Commercial for the NRAhttps://t.co/m6wrUfolf0 pic.twitter.com/XNH9qEGVU4

— IndieWire (@IndieWire) March 2, 2018

The reviewer gets in swipes at the NRA, conservatives and Trump — a Resistance three-fer:

But this isn’t the story of a guy who’s fighting to find true north on his moral compass; it’s the story of a guy whose bleeding heart, “I would have voted for Obama a third time” liberalism goes up in smoke as soon as shit gets personal. More than just a feature-length commercial for the NRA, “Death Wish” is such a masturbatory fantasy for modern conservatives because it suggests that every do-gooder Democrat is really just a Republican waiting to happen.
[…]
Kidding aside, that might not be the worst idea in the film’s conception of Chicago. Exaggerating its gang-related gun violence until the Windy City starts to resemble the war zone that Donald Trump so desperately wants it to be, Roth uses real-life radio personalities Sway and Mancow to suggest a place on the brink of collapse (showing may be better than telling, but telling is so much cheaper).

And the response from many: SOLD!

https://twitter.com/McCann_Kevin1/status/969585589694722050

Added to the must-see list.

— baldilocks — Boomer and Retired Cold Warrior (@JulietteAkinyi) March 2, 2018

'Sounds awesome!' Critic's swipe at NRA in 'Death Wish' review seems to have backfired

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