death sentence movie review

This movie was directed by James Wan the same man who helmed Saw. Directed by Joe Leone.

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. Crime rates might be dropping nationwide but you wouldnt know from the new wave of vigilante-themed films that has inexplicably begun. Bloody loud aggressive violence throughout. Participants bodies are increasingly marked by cuts scars bruises and welts.

Movie Times Tickets. Directed by James Wan. Whatever else Death Sentence may be about its most obvious purpose is setting up the forgone conclusion of Nick Hume exacting grisly cold-blooded retribution against those whove hurt his family.

Fatal and otherwise brutal action includes shooting shotguns handguns knifing close-up blade sunk into chest. Death Sentence Saturday May 16th 340am MOMAX. It also features Nick Nolte in one of his early roles.

Death Sentence Critic Reviews Ratings Favorite Movie Button. DEATH SENTENCE is a brutal morality tale that loses its moral points amid a whole lot of bloody carnage and revenge. Death Sentence not to be confused with the more recent film by SAW mastermind James Wan was an early 1970s made-for-television film produced by Aaron Spelling the master of that eras television soap operas.

Transformed by grief Hume. Helplessly he sees a. As the review title suggests Death Sentence is an equal balance of both a ridiculously unconventional and obscure plot bolstered by nonetheless gritty hard boiled vigilantism.

R 1 hr 50 min. However Bacon is excellent as always as the mild-mannered architect who discovers his inner killer the hard. Based on the novel by Brian Garfield.

If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device. Ive always found vigilante stories. The accused is innocent and her own husband Laurence Luckinbill is guilty.

Death Sentence breaks no new ground in the action-thriller department and its characters and dialog are nearly indistinguishable from any violent crime movie of the last few decades in its weakest moments it resembles grind house fare like The Exterminator. With Kevin Bacon Garrett Hedlund Kelly Preston Jordan Garrett. Death Sentence movie reviews Metacritic score.

A fathers campaign of vengeance against the gang members who kill his son leads to more sorrow and pain. Nick Hume Kevin Bacon is on his way home from a hockey game with his son Brendan and stops for gasoline. For what its worth Death Sentence isnt that bad of a movie.

In Death Sentence Bacon acts out a lot more scaring his wife Kelly Preston and drawing the attention of a police detective Aisha Tyler who you would think at a crucial point would think to ask Nick why he has a blood-soaked bandage wrapped around his hand. Everyone thinks theyre right in a War but everyone still dies in the end Detective Wallis tells Nick Hume in Death Sentence. Check out my podcast here.

Friday Aug 31 2007. Death Sentence Movie Review. Nick Hume Kevin Bacon is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him.

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As I said it suffers from all the same clichés and pitfalls of similar flicks but it is offset by the work of Kevin Bacon. Death Sentence is a 2007 American psychological drama crime thriller film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield. The movie stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume a mild-mannered insurance accountant who enjoys his family especially his older son Brendan whos very athletic.

Find my killer and I will finish your novel. Probably just smashed a mirror in grief. Suffice it to say then that hes no stranger to geysers of blood erupting.

Also helping it along is the fact that Kelly Preston is no slouch of an actress either and that she still looks great for a 40 year old woman maybe. Hume must protect his family from the gangs resulting vengeance. Death Sentence is in most respects an unremarkable film.

Directed by James Wan the film stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume a man who takes the law into his own hands after his son is murdered by a gang as an initiation ritual. Lets cut to the chase right out of the gate. Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever.

A murder-trial juror Cloris Leachman slowly sees. Directed by James Wan. Wans movie is very efficient.

If youre looking for a default option for a Saturday night-in with your misses when all other movie options seem exhausted Death Sentence will modestly deliver. Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever.

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