Death Sentence Reviews

Movie Reviews

• takes the pulp revenge thriller to the edge. And then falls off

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis Star Tribune ]

• shallow, clumsy and just plain dumb

  Review rate : D+ by Tom Maurstad [Dallas Morning News ]

• seesaws wildly between being both brilliant and terrible

  by Matthew Turner [ViewLondon ]

• preposterous on so many counts that it's hard to enumerate them

  by Maitland McDonagh [TV Guide ]

• not exactly a fun time at the movies, but it is riveting

  by Pam Grady [Reel.com ]

• mostly a gore-packed thriller

  by Meredith Goldstein [Boston Globe ]

• Kevin Bacon's 'Death Sentence' is all ham and cheese

  by Jack Matthews [NY Daily News ]

• grimly silly revenge thriller

  Review rate : D+ by Michael Sragow [Baltimore Sun ]

• fundamentally a piece of entertainment, and a well-made one at that

  by Mark Burger [Hollywood.com ]

• fails to provide any sort of genuine social context for its violence

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• both overly familiar and over the top at the same time

  by David Mercier [Film Judge ]

• awesomely bad grindhouse movie

  by Kamal Al-Solaylee [Globe and Mail ]

• an unsatisfying and not-that-smart vigilante thriller

  by Roger Moore [Orlando Sentinel ]

• a stupid revenge flick

  by Peter Bradshaw [The Guardian ]

• a movie that's satisfying on the surface but utterly bereft of subliminal charge

  by Geoff Pevere [Toronto Star ]

• 'Death's' noble message appears fatally flawed

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

Reader's Reviews

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