"Death Sentence" Movie Review

From September 2007....


Gosh, I love movies. Today's treat was a movie that I am seriously considering to be one of my movies of the year - "Death Sentence."

I have watched a ton of movies and I can pretty much tell early on while watching a movie if a movie is going to be just o.k. or out of control. When early on in a movie you have an actor like Kevin Bacon playing a character who is sorting through various cutting instruments, like a hand-held sickle, a machete, and a bowie knife, to go up against some scary thugs, the likes I haven't seen since reporting for duty at Fort Bragg, North Carolina to serve with the 3d Special Forces Group, you know you have a movie that is going to be out of control.

"Death Sentence" is dark and pulls no punches. This movie is out of control. I can't think of a bad movie Kevin Bacon has been in. For those of you interested, some of the movies off the top of my head with Bacon and well worth watching are "The River Wild," "The Woodsman," "Stir of Echoes," "Sleepers," or even "Friday the 13th, part 2" This guy is in everything. Match him with John Goodman and up-and-comer Garrett Hedlund, then just sit back and enjoy a well-made movie. John Goodman needs no introduction. Garrett Hedlund plays the bad-ass running back in "Friday Night Lights" who, much like Larry Czonka, barrels his way through the football field after separating his shoulder. Great scene. He also starred in "Four Brothers." A good movie with John Goodman which I cannot recommend more highly is "Sea of Love" with Goodman playing Al Pacino's partner on the hunt for a killer.

See "Death Sentence," you will not be disappointed. The two best scenes in this movie are the scene in which Bacon's character enters the bar for information and the scene when his character and John Goodman's character come face-to-face. Cinematic history. It doesn't get much better than this folks.

Hit me up with any questions, comments, or trivia. Cheers!!!