Ideas that Would've made this a Good Flick S P O I L E R S

Here are my suggestions:

1. Frank was a wasted character. It would've made much better use of the actor d'Onofrio if if it'd come out that he was really at fault for the robbery, esp. if he'd sold the inside info on valuables, etc to pay off one of his debts. This was just one of those "easy paycheck" movies for him.

2. There could've been a great plot twist about 2/3 through. When Paul finds that first crook's cellphone & sees the photo of his car's nav. system, I thought that had a link to Frank, as that's the crook Frank paid the money to (I think - hard to tell what was going on there). It would've added conflict, or a better climax, when Paul & Frank would face each other: Paul angry at Frank & Frank defending his actions, or even surprising Paul with a pointed gun.

3. There could've been some clues with interplay between crooks & Frank. Maybe they need more info from him in order to kill his daughter or maybe do something inside Paul's house to incriminate him & thus save themselves via the cops.

4. I go for irony: Jeff Goldblum in a cameo as an angry politician at a press conference, decrying gun violence in "our wonderful city." Then the press & cameras leave, and Goldblum winks to us in the audience, showing he's the exact same character from the first movie, but grown up and perpetrating a bigger type of crime.

5. A little more info on the hoods. I couldn't tell which ones got iced, who the heck the Fish guy was... why kill a mere fence? People came and went 'til I got dizzy.

6. More build-up to the killings, esp. the end one. That should've been the crook with the cut face, who should've done more to scare or hurt the girl in the beginning. I wasn't too scared by the hoods, and couldn't tell at least two of 'em apart. Memorable villains are much more effective, e.g. Al Lettieri's "Rudy" in "The Getaway."

7. Care more about the characters. I didn't give a shit about Kersey in this flick. I was rooting for him in the original, mainly because he had to work so hard to overcome his societal "taming" against fighting violence with violence. Remember when he uses that sock filled with quarters? I think he goes home & throws up after that. That took me out of the "this is Charles Bronson" mode for the rest of the movie.

In the original, Bronson's wife was more likable and the daughter more pitiful (though she overacted). These two were throwaway characters. In fact, I was annoyed by the dumb daughter.

8. A REAL confrontation with the final hood. Maybe even a twist: The daughter kills him - or better, paralyzes him for life - with Krav Maga. That whole bit at the beginning was wasted in that she didn't even try using it when she had the chance. They also wasted when she - stupidly - does come out of the cubby hole. The hood just talks about doing something to her (or Paul, I couldn't tell) & then gets blown out.