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

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

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

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

| Dec 3, 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

The morality of revenge is barely at issue in a movie that pushes the plausibility of revenge right over a cliff.

| Original Score: D | Sep 5, 2007

It's terrible and it's so disappointing because I love Kevin Bacon and I love Aisha [Tyler] and you have good actors here who are trapped.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2007

With Death Sentence, James Wan continues to beat us over the head, though this time he has the decency to do so with some semblance of human emotion.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2007

Kevin Bacon gives another stellar performance and there are some powerfully good action scenes but the structure of this Sentence doesn't feel like it was ever well-defined.

Full Review | Aug 31, 2007

. At both its best and worst, it feels like the missing third part of the faux retro double-bill Grindhouse.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 31, 2007

It's got style to burn and is more gruesome that any schlock-horror gorefest.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 31, 2007

As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Blunt, bloody and far too busy with its sledgehammer plot and mighty gunplay to waste time on the main character's inner life, Death Sentence is a baseline entertainment.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Fails to provide any sort of genuine social context for its violence.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Bacon's performance in Saw creator James Wan's laughably extreme revenge thriller Death Sentence is six degrees of ham.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 31, 2007

An old-school exploitation picture, polished off with a modern sensibility by Saw director James Wan.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

It may be the most depressing action movie ever made. Its calamities are well staged, and its acting, beyond some histrionics, is fine. But you don't enjoy this film; you endure it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

The endgame is that it doesn't matter if some scenes have flare or if the cinematography is ingenious, the characters and story flat-out suck and no amount of filmmaking élan is going to change that fact for the better.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 31, 2007

Both the story and (literal) execution here are cheap and somewhat embarrassing for Bacon and company. Kill this movie.

| Original Score: D | Aug 31, 2007

Is the movie trying to show how bloodlust and revenge can destroy a person? If so, it simultaneously revels in violence. Trying to have it both ways diminishes the entire undertaking, rendering it despicably hypocritical.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Aug 31, 2007