Death Wish 3 (1985)

Starting off strong, with the most over-the-top rampage in the Death Wish series. Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) finds his long-time (but til now in the series, never-mentioned) friend Charley (Francis Drake) near death following a gang attack in possibly the most cartoonish depiction of crime-ridden New York. It looks like a literal war zone. Under an arrangement from the NYPD, Kersey is set free and given the names of the gang leaders who commanded the attack, under the condition that he keep the police informed about his body count.

In addition to his by-now-standard pistol and grim sneer, Bronson also teams up with the senior residents of Charley’s crumbling apartment building and raids his old war buddy’s closet for a few automatic weapons and the real showstopper of the film: a rocket launcher.