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Death Sentence

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Death Sentence

R

Released Aug 31, 2007

1h 50m

Mystery & Thriller

Action

Drama

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Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is on his way home from a hockey game with his son, Brendan, and stops for gasoline. Helplessly he sees a street thug kill Brendan while robbing the station. Believing the justice system will fail him, Nick goes after the killer himself, setting off a war between him and the killer's older brother (Garrett Hedlund).

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Critics Consensus

A nonsensical plot and an absurd amount of violence make this revenge pic gratuitous and overwrought.

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Cliff Doerksen

Time Out

Rated: 4/5

Nov 18, 2011

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Joshua Rothkopf

Time Out

Rated: 2/5

Nov 17, 2011

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Mark Bourne

Film.com

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.

Jan 8, 2008

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Forrest Hartman

Reno Gazette-Journal

Once Death Sentence reaches the mid-point of the second act, it has become so ludicrous that Wan's excess is more likely to draw laughs than tears.

Sep 13, 2023

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

In all honesty, I didn't expect much from the film and I didn't get much.

Rated: 1.5/4.0

Sep 5, 2020

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Fred Topel

We Live Entertainment

Death Sentence shows there's even more to [revenge] than your own downfall. The cycle you get into spirals out of control. Perhaps it's more emblematic of Gandhi's statement 'an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.'

Sep 10, 2017

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Greg O

It’s not winning any awards but this movie kicks ass!!!!!!!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/06/25

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Mr. T

The shaky camera footage, cheesy “action” and both predictable and random plot made it more funny than anything. I was actually impressed with how bad the soundtrack was, mainly consisting of just some lady harmonizing. Pretty sure they play this in film school as an example of how not to make a movie.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/25

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T O

This site is a total joke. Never trust the Tomatometer. Death sentence is one of the best revenge movies of all time. Iconic, brutal, emotional, Kevin Bacon at the top of his game.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

07/03/24

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Stoner J

Super underrated movie. It's not like the best but it's good enough that I've seen it many times over. There are some ridiculous choices they made in the gangster characters, tribal tattoos, muscle cars and long leather jackets, sound like gangsters? I think not, still a good flick

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

03/05/24

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Oren B

Fkn a$shole "critics" gave it 20% = must be an excellent movie! And it is! If you like revenge against low lives enabled by the shitty left = social-democrats, you're in for a treat!

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/26/24

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allen p

I know this movie has some age on it but I still have to give my input. One of the most action packed, edge of your seat entertainment movies you can watch! Another great movie starring Kevin Bacon!

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

08/06/23

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Synopsis

Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is on his way home from a hockey game with his son, Brendan, and stops for gasoline. Helplessly he sees a street thug kill Brendan while robbing the station. Believing the justice system will fail him, Nick goes after the killer himself, setting off a war between him and the killer's older brother (Garrett Hedlund).

Director: James Wan
Producer: Ashok Amritraj, Howard Baldwin, Karen Elise Baldwin
Screenwriter: Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Distributor: 20th Century Fox
Production Co: Twentieth Century Fox
Rating: R (Strong Bloody Brutal Violence|Pervasive Language)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Action, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 31, 2007, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Sep 18, 2012
Box Office (Gross USA): $9.5M
Runtime: 1h 50m
Sound Mix: Dolby SRD, DTS, SDDS
Aspect Ratio: Scope (2.35:1)

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