Death Sentence (2007)

Review Summary

In the latest flashy, pretentious exploitation movie from James Wan (“Saw” and “Dead Silence”), Kevin Bacon plays Nick Hume, an insurance adjuster who sees his oldest son die at the hands of a machete-wielding young punk during a street gang’s robbery of a gas station. Nick later kills the perpetrator, setting off a police investigation and a cycle of violence that draws in the punk’s older brother, Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund), the gang’s leader; his interracially mixed crew; and his father, Bones (John Goodman). Based on Brian Garfield’s novel — a sequel to the book that spawned the 1974 film “Death Wish” — Mr. Wan’s film is a middle-class white man’s payback fantasy, leavened with phony references to class difference. Aside from a stunning three-minute tracking shot as the gang pursues Nick through a parking garage, and Mr. Bacon’s hauntingly pale, dark-eyed visage, Mr. Wan’s film is a tedious, pandering time-waster. — Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times

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