Review of Death Sentence (1968) by Jayakrishnan R — 18 Nov 2015

86%.

Watched this on 17/11/15.

This is the most underrated film of James Wan (even from the part of the audience). It is violent, well directed and more over filled with some effective cinematography (in the chase scene) and also the splendid sound effects that you could also find in Insidious. Kevin Bacon gives a really good performance and the film, although violent, does not believe that violence and bloodshed can give any happiness. Moreover, it's more realistic in the sense that it is the only serious action film that showed the lead actor's inability to use guns even in the second half of the film and he had to use instruction manuals as well for his aid. The film also seems to take inspiration from Taxi Driver.