Add clanship loyalty to such powerful father-son bonds and you are soon in the land of the Capulets and Montagues and sometimes the less poetic territory of Charles Bronson.

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Hardy made his name in Spielberg's TV series Band of Brothers and drew plaudits for his lead role in Bronson, in which he played infamous British criminal Charles Bronson.

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But he became more well-known for his action movies, especially the violent Death Wish series, starring Charles Bronson as an architect who turns vigilante after his wife and daughter are murdered.

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The movie, which was written by Gary Young and directed by Daniel Barber, is derivative of revenge films starring Charles Bronson, Mel Gibson, and Clint Eastwood, though Michael Caine, at the age of seventy-seven, is extraordinary.

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The craggy Charles Bronson vaqueros, Hispanic cowboys with their fancy rodeo shirts and Stetsons, and the Tejano bands playing the mix-and-match sound of chilli: shades of country and western, mariachi, blues - even a dash of Bavaria with the accordions.

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