Review of Death Sentence (2007) by Brandon W — 05 Apr 2015

Death Sentence is a great movie that is one heck of a try from James Wan. It's refreshing to see James Wan to make a movie that is different than his usual horror genre, although it does have some psychological moments in there that are really effective.

Kevin Bacon is amazing in this, and can really pull it off as an action lead. The plot is a typical revenge movie, but they do put in some scenes that I didn't know where it's going. The writing is really good, and I honestly thought the stuff they do made sense.

The action scenes are great and filmed really good too. It's interesting, and the soundtrack by Charlie Clouser is really catchy and never felt like he made another Saw soundtrack. The characters are memorable enough that you actually feel bad for what they have to go through.

The message of it at first can get skeptical as that's the wrong message to give out, but when it comes to the result, it changed the message a bit which I was a little glad they did. Death Sentence is James Wan's first action movie, and it's an enjoyable one that I'm glad that he's the new director for Furious 7.