Death Sentence (2007)

The Worst Film Ever

From my favorite movies..

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Death sentence is one of my favorites movie of all time it has a good storyline its bloody it has a lot of action its is awsome

This is not your average Disney movie for sure. Sadly someone wrote a novel about an executive Dudley do right and his family who happens to cross wrong paths of a gang initiation and this movie is the aftermath...It's not an easy watch, and honestly it's not the most believable, although in times it seems to be, weird right? Make no mistake this is not a family watch, unless you have weird family. Kevin did a great job given the circumstances. I mean you can't expect a natural born killer out of a random experience right? And I think this movie somewhat played it off, although I think in the real world it would have been circumvented prematurely, at least by the law.The realism, well who the heck knows right. In some scenes I thought there wasn't enough emotion (me being a family man & all), and some scenes I thought it was just, after all it's only a movie right? I would hate to think about anyone having to go through anything similar in real life, and for those who have, well I'm sure they can put deeper thoughts than I have in this review. I can say one thing for sure, and this from personal experience which gratefully didn't come to this degree, but if anyone ever did hurt any of my family, sadly I would do exactly like Kevin did in this and go all out vengeance, and to my demise if it came to that.So to wrap up, a decent action flick, but with much more involved, so not a senseless flick by any means. There are aspects of realism and yet aspects of movie-like, so don't kid yourself or loose sleep over what all happens. Afterall it's Hollywood right?

I decided to watch this film because I am a huge James wan fan "saw, dead silence, Annabelle, and the conjuring the film was okay. I hate watch film that deal with mafias and gangs cause I hate them so much and it hard for me to view content like that. At least the second half of the film was good because he was getting his revenge against the evil monsters that killed his family so all in all I rate this a 6/10 cause gangs film are not my cup of tea.

I knew the leading actor and read about the other good names in the cast, and I had my guesses what the title would relate to, so it was just a case of watching it and hoping for something good, directed by James Wan (Saw, Insidious, The Conjuring). Basically Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) is a mild-mannered family man, married to Helen (Kelly Preston), with two sons, Brendan (Stuart Lafferty) and Lucas (Jordan Garrett), and he is senior vice-president of the insurance company Starship Capital. While driving back home with his son Brendan, after a game of hockey, Nick stops the car at a gas station, in a dangerous neighbourhood, and while in the convenience store he witnesses his son being murdered by punk gang member Joe Darley (Matthew 'Matt' O'Leary). The grieving Nick is told by the prosecutor that Joe would get three years maximum in prison, but he deliberately says in the court that he does not recognise Joe as the killer of his son. Nick did knowing he would be freed and wants to seek his revenge, at night he follows the gang to their hideout, and finding Joe alone he stabs him to death, but there are consequences. The gang leader Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund), Joe's brother, discounts other gang members as culprits, he deduces it was Nick, and it is a war between the gang and the ordinary man turned avenger, the police are not far behind both sides, and Billy's black market gun dealer father Bones (John Goodman) gets involved as well. Also starring as Aisha Tyler as Detective Wallis and Saw's Leigh Whannell as Spink. Bacon is a reasonable choice to play the man having a family member brutally killed and taking on the people that did it, the supporting stars like Preston and Goodman do fine as well, I will be honest and say that I could not follow the full story, it seemed a bit predictable what I did get of it, and my attention was caught more by the bloody violence, but the themes if ethical and moral dilemmas, and the blur between good and evil, are used to reasonable effect, it all adds up to an alright thriller. Worth watching!