Death Sentence Reviews
Top CriticAn unsatisfying and not-that-smart vigilante thriller.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
makes no pretense to be anything other than pulp junk. Those who haven't been inured to this sort of graphic, gritty, limbs-blownoff style of cinematic violence should be forewarned
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| Original Score: 78/100
The result is such a mish-mash of conflicting tones and ideas that it doesn't play well on any level.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Three Movie Buffs
There's about six degrees of separation between this and a good movie.
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| Original Score: 1/4
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
The best that can be said about 'Death Sentence' is that it doesn't try to be too deep or arty.
Fresno Bee
Think of it as one long worship service in the Church of Vigilante Justice.
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| Original Score: C
Christian Science Monitor
With the subtlety of a bulldozer comes this dubiously pedigreed revenge thriller.
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| Original Score: C-
ComingSoon.net
Might have been accepted as a classic modern grindhouse flick if any of its inherent humor were even remotely intentional.
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| Original Score: 5/10
It's terrible and it's so disappointing because I love Kevin Bacon and I love Aisha [Tyler] and you have good actors here who are trapped.
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Even as the film slides into unintentional comedy, it's almost redeemed by John Goodman's demented supporting performance as a mysterious character who, in a better film, would have held the key to everything.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Washington Times
This Sentence is as grisly and violent as the trailer portends.
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| Original Score: 2/4
eFilmCritic.com
It turns out Wan is a legitimately atrocious filmmaker, and Sentence is his Exile on Main St. of awful.
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| Original Score: F
Long Island Press
More tainted yuppie superhero wet dream, than the original Charles Bronson anti-inner city backlash burb paranoid freakout. And as a result, the lines are more clearly drawn as to distributed dark sides of these sympathy-challenged characters.
KPBS.org
As Hume's life spirals out of control, so too does the film. Director James Wan... fails at the finer emotional details and at making the action play out believably.
CinemaBlend.com
The only thing worse than the movie's cliché vengeance script is the clunky way James Wan directs it.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Is the movie trying to show how bloodlust and revenge can destroy a person? If so, it simultaneously revels in violence. Trying to have it both ways diminishes the entire undertaking, rendering it despicably hypocritical.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Combustible Celluloid
The practical side, the details of the plot, run to the ridiculous and dampen the film's more prickly parts.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
HollywoodChicago.com
Don't hire Kevin Bacon for a role you wrote for Charles Bronson.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Sky Movies
By the end, many will be outraged by the sheer irresponsibility of it all. The rest will be too busy laughing.
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| Original Score: 1/5
