death sentence movie review

DEATH SENTENCE stars Kevin Bacon as Nick Hume a mild-mannered insurance accountant who enjoys his family especially his athletic older son Brendan. 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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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.

. Helplessly he sees a. 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. If playback doesnt begin shortly try restarting your device.

The accused is innocent and her own husband Laurence Luckinbill is guilty. Find my killer and I will finish your novel. 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.

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. 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. Death Sentence is a 2007 American psychological drama crime thriller film loosely based on the 1975 novel of the same name by Brian Garfield.

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. Lets cut to the chase right out of the gate. Death Sentence movie reviews Metacritic score.

For what its worth Death Sentence isnt that bad of a movie. Nick Hume Kevin Bacon is on his way home from a hockey game with his son Brendan and stops for gasoline. 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.

Directed by Joe Leone. Participants bodies are increasingly marked by cuts scars bruises and welts. Notice the ten foreshadowing quotes in the first 8 minutes of the movie.

Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. A blocked writer is made a proposition by the spirit of her celebrated-author cousin. A fathers campaign of vengeance against the gang members who kill his son leads to more sorrow and pain.

Probably just smashed a mirror in grief. Fatal and otherwise brutal action includes shooting shotguns handguns knifing close-up blade sunk into chest. Directed by James Wan.

In the latest flashy pretentious exploitation movie from James Wan Saw and. 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. With Arselajda Buraku Andreas Casso Remiara Eve Nicholas M.

Wans movie is very efficient. Hume must protect his family from the gangs resulting vengeance. A murder-trial juror Cloris Leachman slowly sees.

This movie was directed by James Wan the same man who helmed Saw. Transformed by grief Hume. R 1 hr 50 min.

Death Sentence Saturday May 16th 340am MOMAX. Death Sentence Movie Review. With Kevin Bacon Garrett Hedlund Kelly Preston Jordan Garrett.

Movie Times Tickets. Based on the novel by Brian Garfield. However Bacon is excellent as always as the mild-mannered architect who discovers his inner killer the hard.

Nick Hume Kevin Bacon is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him. One night however while driving back from a hockey game in the city the youngest member of an evil gang deliberately murders Brendan at a gas stations mini-mart. Bloody loud aggressive violence throughout.

Everyone thinks theyre right in a War but everyone still dies in the end Detective Wallis tells Nick Hume in Death Sentence. It also features Nick Nolte in one of his early roles. Suffice it to say then that hes no stranger to geysers of blood erupting.

Directed by James Wan. Ive always found vigilante stories. Death Sentence is in most respects an unremarkable film.

Friday Aug 31 2007. This review of Death Sentence 1968 was written by Paula D on 12 September 2009. 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.

Death Sentence Critic Reviews Ratings Favorite Movie Button. By Matt Zoller Seitz. Crime rates might be dropping nationwide but you wouldnt know from the new wave of vigilante-themed films that has inexplicably begun.

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