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Death Sentence (2007)
Director: James Wan
Movie review
From Time Out New York
James Wan, director of the first Saw, unconvincingly enters the realm of human emotions with this Death Wish–like revenger about a family man (Bacon) reaping gang violence after he goes vigilante on the thug who randomly killed his son. Scenes of mourning are swaddled in syrupy music, a sign of insecure directing. Meanwhile, the film just wants to kick some punk ass, which it does, gorily, in an extended, catastrophic third act. Between Death Sentence and Saw’s Jigsaw killer, it’s tempting to view Wan as an especially tiresome moralist.Author: Joshua Rothkopf
Time Out New York Issue 623: September 6–12, 2007
Cast & crew
Director: James Wan
Producer: Ashok Amritraj
Cast: Kevin Bacon, Kelly Preston, John Goodman, Aisha Tyler, Stuart Lafferty, Garrett Hedlund, Matt O'Leary, Leigh Whannell full cast
Rated: R
Duration: 110 mins
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