Death Sentence (2007) 7/10

Starring : Kevin Bacon, Garrett Hedlund, Kelly Preston, Aisha Tyler, John Goodman
Director : James Wan
Running Time : 106 mins

When Nick Hume (Bacon) witnesses the murder of his son as part of a gang initiation, he is told that by identifying the culprit they may get three to five years imprisonment. Instead Hume tells the court that he couldn’t identify the youth and takes the law into his own hands, but the repercussions are that the gang come after him and the rest of his family in full force.

Most films about people seeking revenge will end with the vengeance being exacted upon those that have done wrong. Instead this has Bacon get his revenge around the halfway mark and the remainder of the movie has the gang trying to get their revenge, then Bacon getting his revenge again. There’s just so much vengeance in this movie it’s like watching three movies starring Jean Claude Van Damme! Fans of vengeance movies (obviously) will love this, but some viewers might get tired of the repetitive nature of the violence, which I suspect is the point of the movie – that vengeance never ends.

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