Even being a huge Charles Bronson fan, I found those movies to be he most meh. Even worse than Kinjinte: Forbidden Subjects.
I even read the book, which was really dark, and agree with the author that the first movies missed the point of his book.
I guess Eli Roth was like, "hold my beer". The new remake looked pretty bad in trailers.
MovieBob seems to confirm it in his review. He's also killing the jokes in his intros these days.
"Well, at least they didn't call it White Panther."
"It's set in Chicago instead of New York, and while I don't hear anything, my dogs are going NUTS."