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

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

| Original Score: 1.5/4.0 | Sep 5, 2020

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a gritty, adrenaline-soaked thriller -- and if that's as deep as you care to dig, you'll be entertained. But for those who care to contemplate, it's quite a bit more.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 9, 2009

It's a powerful, visceral revenge flick, and Kevin Bacon does a fine acting job bringing the vigilante to life.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2008

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

A gritty and gripping revenge fantasy %u2026 Kevin Bacon's talent and persona to make us sit up and take notice

| Apr 26, 2008

Death Sentence is a laughably bad exercise in the pornography of sadism and the American appetite which voraciously consumes it.

| Original Score: 1/10 | Feb 28, 2008

This Sentence is as grisly and violent as the trailer portends.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2008

I really enjoyed what [it] had to offer with takes on morals, war, and the damage violence can do to people in its grasp...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 18, 2008

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

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 8, 2008

This graphically violent film suffers from cursorily developed characters whose primary function is to advance the creaky plot.

| Dec 3, 2007

Begins promisingly but ends putridly.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 1, 2007

...the film's schizophrenic nature eventually proves to be its downfall...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2007

Don't hire Kevin Bacon for a role you wrote for Charles Bronson.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 21, 2007

The graininess of the film generally makes everything look as ugly as it feels. Death Sentence deserves no reprieve.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Sep 15, 2007

Think of it as one long worship service in the Church of Vigilante Justice.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Sep 14, 2007