GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Titreenp SERIOUSLY. This is what the crap Hollywood still puts out?

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

nicholasjoshuahalloran I like Kevin Bacon, and John Goodman.. and that's about where the good ends.The writer must've been high writing this script. It's beyond ridiculous at times, like when Kevin Bacon's wife dies and he's in the hospital, and he wakes up to the detective giving him a lecture saying, 'knock it off', etc...The fact that the gangsters only shot Kevin Bacon in the stomach, and he ended up living (and his son), even though they acted as if he was dead- it was ridiculous. I would say this is either a 'fair' B-rate movie, or a poor Hollywood movie. I can't decide.I did get some good laughs though, and it entertained me enough to watch through...

Fella_shibby I first saw this film in 2008 on a DVD. I enjoyed it. The movie was very well made. Kevin Bacon gav an excellent performance as a father seeking revenge. The movie never slows down or gets boring. John Goodman also appears in a nice cameo role. Fans of Death Wish, The Brave One, Harry Brown, The Punisher, Law abiding citizen shud definitely check this out. I was most impressed by the camera work in the chase scenes. I was rooting for the lead character from the word go and Bacon did not let me down. Death sentence was a great thrill ride from the emotional opening credits to the chilling conclusion. At times it was brutal, gory n depressing. The music by Charlie Clouser (Saw series, The collection, Resident evil extinction) was very effective at establishing the proper mood. It has some hard hitting action, fantastic foot chase, some amazing gun fights n some unique death scenes. The soundtrack is very depressing and moody and helps set the tone of the film. Its directed by James Wan (Saw, Dead silence, Insidous, Conjuring, Fast n furious 7). Nice cinematography by John R. Leonetti (Conjuring, Insidious). It's based on the book (sequel to the original Deathwish) written by Brian Garfield, the author of Death wish.

Mr-Fusion "Death Sentence" features a really good piece of dialogue, which I'd seen written on a website (I'm at a loss for citation) before ever having heard of this movie. Anyhoo, it's John Goodman, selling black market guns to royally-wronged Kevin Bacon:"You've got the bastard of bastards. A .357, for guaranteed head removal. That's- that's a sweetie. You got your standard-size, super-size. That's a f-ckin' hungry man right there. And you got the king of mayhem. Half cannon, sword of justice. Take this f-cker to the Holy Land, start your own crusade. Any one of these is bound to make you feel better about what's bothering you."Seriously, imagine John Goodman saying those words. Hell, I'd buy guns from that guy!Sadly the movie itself is just a "Death Wish" clone with an identity crisis. Is Kevin Bacon a modern Charles Bronson, or Travis Bickle? The movie wants him to be both, and that confusion is why the revenge angle never bears fruit. Just when you think he's attained a clear head after all he's suffered , he flips the switch into utter badass (complete with unexplained fighting moves, honed marksmanship and a steely resolve. Okay, that's still not a deal-breaker. And with a movie like this, you need the police to be useless, so the hero/wronged has an excuse to go full-on vigilante. Totally fine. But where's the police when the big bad gang kills their own? Hollywood always teaches us that a cop-killer is as cardinal-sin as it gets. Anyway, Bacon goes mental and the bad guys start paying dearly, but there's never much fun to be had here. Aside from one stand-out foot chase, it's mostly bad camera-work and manic editing.Blech.7/10

shlunka The tragic death of a jock results in the indignation from his untrained but enraged paternal guardian in what could be summed up with conjuring an image of flinging blood onto your own DVD copy of Death Wish. Kevin Bacon unconvincingly turns into a human weapon after vindictively reloading firearms, a training method only known to the elite soldiers of Bosnia, who would agree that this movie doesn't do justice to just how long one must load/reload a gun to become a one man death squad. Goodman's performance was amusing, as a gangster that smells like Arby's and talks with a bite of horsey sauce. Cliché' and uncompelling, but thoroughly fun to watch with his limited screen time. Bacon supplies great moments of drama that unfortunately coincide with spotty directing and screen writing spottier than a jaguar with leprosy who habitually leaves ink pens in its pockets. All in all, a movie that could've been great, but fell short due to plot holes and, like most fast food places, simply didn't have enough real Bacon.