Those of a certain vintage will recognise this film as more or less a remake of Michael Winner's 1974 offering "Death Wish", albeit with a female lead. It is even set in New York. Ten years after the first film, architect Bernard Goetz shot and seriously injured four youths on the New York subway. Although initially proclaimed a hero, it would shortly emerge that he had over-reacted to a perceived threat, to put it mildly.
This is what we see here, when ordinary citizens or anyone go around rubbing out bad guys on whatever pretext, it seldom ends well because the definition of bad guys becomes broader and broader until people are targetted for trivial crimes or even no crimes at all, and that is before we mention mistaken identity and an eye for an eye leaving us all blind. Don't expect that to happen here, but don't forget, this is fiction, not real life.
This is what we see here, when ordinary citizens or anyone go around rubbing out bad guys on whatever pretext, it seldom ends well because the definition of bad guys becomes broader and broader until people are targetted for trivial crimes or even no crimes at all, and that is before we mention mistaken identity and an eye for an eye leaving us all blind. Don't expect that to happen here, but don't forget, this is fiction, not real life.