They tried for this one. It's not well known but they tried. The support cast is very good - Lesley Ann Downe, Michael Parks, Robert Joy. The characters are given stuff to do - Joy's punk-like killer, the henchman always eating food, Parks and his shades.
Script wise they do a good job of inducing fresh outrage instead of relying on it automatically. Bronson's new girl is the ex of a crime lord - she gets killed, and the crime lord takes custody of her kid, which gives it live stakes.
Some imagination in the action scenes - Bronson uses a soccer ball, a henchman dresses up in drag. There's a fashion world backdrop.
It's not a classic, Bronson was old, and it lacks delirious excess but there's some fine actors and they did try.
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