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Joshua Katzman, Chicago Reader: This graphically violent film suffers from cursorily developed characters whose primary function is to advance the creaky plot. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: It's got style to burn and is more gruesome that any schlock-horror gorefest. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Death Sentence evokes the low-down spirit of an early-'70s exploitation flick, something that might have filled the undercard at a drive-in or a long-in-the-tooth movie palace. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Death Sentence most certainly is not a good movie. Read more
Boston Globe: The cynics will slap their foreheads, the squeamish will cover their eyes. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: It may be the most depressing action movie ever made. Its calamities are well staged, and its acting, beyond some histrionics, is fine. But you don't enjoy this film; you endure it. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Both the story and (literal) execution here are cheap and somewhat embarrassing for Bacon and company. Kill this movie. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: The morality of revenge is barely at issue in a movie that pushes the plausibility of revenge right over a cliff. Read more
Mark Bourne, Film.com: Bacon, as usual, is very good even when he's slumming, and as a trashy B-movie redo of Death Wish the movie works well enough for a Saturday afternoon with a case of brewskies. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: Death Sentence has a crude, naturalistic style that fails to disguise the fact that its twists and turns become increasingly preposterous. Read more
Tom Maurstad, Dallas Morning News: Utterly humorless and unrelentingly grim. Giving it a grainy, washed-out, fidgety look and choreographing scenes to create an atmosphere of claustrophobic disorientation, Mr. Wan has made a movie that is literally unpleasant to watch. Read more
Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News: As rancid as its title is lurid, an example of pulp fiction run amok. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: If only the world were a more peaceful place, we wouldn't have to sit through movies like Death Sentence. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Bacon's performance in Saw creator James Wan's laughably extreme revenge thriller Death Sentence is six degrees of ham. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: Fails to provide any sort of genuine social context for its violence. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An unsatisfying and not-that-smart vigilante thriller. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: From the perfect family home movies that open the film, to its unconvincing 'urban' settings, Death Sentence is one-dimensional, cliched. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The result is such a mish-mash of conflicting tones and ideas that it doesn't play well on any level. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There is a courtroom scene of true surprise and suspense, and some other effective moments, but basically this is a movie about a lot of people shooting at each other. Read more
Steven Winn, San Francisco Chronicle: Blunt, bloody and far too busy with its sledgehammer plot and mighty gunplay to waste time on the main character's inner life, Death Sentence is a baseline entertainment. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Death Sentence takes the pulp revenge thriller to the edge. And then falls off. Read more
Kamal Al-Solaylee, Globe and Mail: Awesomely bad. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: . At both its best and worst, it feels like the missing third part of the faux retro double-bill Grindhouse. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: 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. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: This well-made, often intensely gripping genre piece packs some bizarre tonal extremities and a few moments of self-critique into its tale of a grieving father seeking his own brand of justice. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: In Death Sentence, Kevin Bacon may not be the baddest dad who ever cocked a shotgun to defend his family, but he's the most insanely resolute -- and the least understandable. Read more