It's a powerful, visceral revenge flick, and Kevin Bacon does a fine acting job bringing the vigilante to life.
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Death Sentence (2007)
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Reviews Counted: 106
Fresh: 20
Rotten:86
Average Rating: 4.1/10
Consensus: A nonsensical plot and an absurd amount of violence make this revenge pic gratuitous and overwrought.
Theatrical Release: Aug 31, 2007 Wide
Box Office: $9,479,756
Synopsis: A white-collar revenge fantasy in the vein of DEATH WISH (and based on a novel by the same author, Brian Garfield), DEATH SENTENCE ponders the nature and limits of retribution, asking if murder can... [More]
Starring: Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Aisha Tyler
Director: James Wan
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A gritty and gripping revenge fantasy %u2026 Kevin Bacon's talent and persona to make us sit up and take notice
04/26/08
Death Sentence is a laughably bad exercise in the pornography of sadism and the American appetite which voraciously consumes it.
02/28/08
I really enjoyed what [it] had to offer with takes on morals, war, and the damage violence can do to people in its grasp...
01/18/08
Bacon, as usual, is very good even when he's slumming, and as a trashy B-movie redo of Death Wish the movie works well enough for a Saturday afternoon with a case of brewskies.
01/08/08
Top Critic Death Sentence tries to do two things: be a stirring family drama and a balls-out gore soaked revenge flick. It achieves only one of those goals.
01/08/08
This graphically violent film suffers from cursorily developed characters whose primary function is to advance the creaky plot.
12/03/07
Top Critic ...the film's schizophrenic nature eventually proves to be its downfall...
10/13/07
The graininess of the film generally makes everything look as ugly as it feels. Death Sentence deserves no reprieve.
09/15/07
Think of it as one long worship service in the Church of Vigilante Justice.
09/14/07
Even with its overly stylized look and cartoonish bad guys, Death Sentence is not a film that you can easily shake off.
09/11/07
Death Sentence is a better film than many might expect and also delivers several good doses of action for fans of shoot 'em-ups.
09/10/07
Exploitive and overwrought with extreme violence - one of the worst movies so far this year.
09/08/07
The best that can be said about 'Death Sentence' is that it doesn't try to be too deep or arty.
09/08/07
A parking garage chase is impressive, but Wan's ultra-kitschy use of melancholy indie-pop music at moments of intense emotion transforms the movie into pure camp.
09/07/07
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