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- VengeanceVigilantismCrimesDeadlyMind and SoulRivalryGangPolice Detective more...
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- ThrillerActionCrimeDrama
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- Contemporary21st Century
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Death Sentence, 2007
English
USA
Profile of Death Sentence
The mood of Death Sentence is rough, suspenseful, and tense. The plot centers around vigilantism, vengeance, and rivalry. It is a thriller, drama, and action movie. In approach, Death Sentence is serious and realistic. It happens in contemporary times. It is based on a book. Death Sentence is especially suggested for a boys' night. Note that it includes strong violent content and profanity.
Summary of Death Sentence
A white-collar revenge fantasy in the vein of DEATH WISH (and based on a novel by the same author, Brian Garfield), DEATH SENTENCE ponders the nature and limits of retribution, asking if murder can ever be justified. Director James Wan (SAW) delivers a high-end exploitation film, complete with a washed-out, grainy appearance and some startling violence, but with complex, thrilling action sequences.
Kevin Bacon is Nick Hume, a successful businessman with two children and a lovely wife (Kelly Preston). While driving home from his older, college-bound son's hockey game, Nick must pull into a gas station in a tough part of town. When the boy goes into the store to buy a drink, his throat is slit during a bloody robbery attempt. Nick identifies the killer, but with him as the only witness, the case is unable to go to trial. Discovering that the murder was merely a gang initiation, Nick is pushed over the edge, taking on the deadly gang headed by the fierce Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund). Payback becomes all-encompassing for Nick: it not only takes over his life, but it also causes a startling physical transformation. Wan forgoes emotional impact in favor of souped-up, visceral, and occasionally thrilling setpieces. Bacon makes Nick's transformation from a suburban, suit-and-tie family man into a gaunt, shaved-headed angel of death startling and believable. Full of interesting contradictions, DEATH SENTENCE lets viewers have it both ways--fulfilling their bloodlust while ensuring that Nick's targets are despicable people who deserve their fates. Ultimately, though it serves to remind us that, as a solution, violence only begets more violence.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 31 August 2007 |
| Runtime: | 105 min |
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as Nick Hume
as Billy Darley
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Critics Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
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- by: Frank Scheck
Philadelphia Inquirer
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- by: Steven Rea
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- 04.February.2010
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- by: Bradley Bossard
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- 19.January.2010
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- by: Fred Hanak Agueev
- Fred Hanak Agueev rated this movie1/10Awful
