PhillZilly

Went in to this film not expecting much as I checked out some positive reviews and decided to give it a watch. For the most part I enjoyed the plot it was simple yet almost Cabin Feverish.

The things that went downhill for this film were two main things for me and those are... #1 the acting from Arielle Brachfeld (Angela) was pretty cringe worthy itself. The scenes with her and Rae are almost impossible to watch without turning your head in disbelief. Her alone made me nearly turn off the film but I kept watching hoping for a gruesome death.

#2 was how ridiculously long of a build up this film had... I literally sat through 45-50 minutes of nothing but story telling of Rae & Angela's characters pretty much. IMO when you have a 90 minute or less window for the film do not spend 50 minutes messing around and if you do you better have good reason for it.

However, with those two negatives out of the way the film was pretty decent in the rest of the departments. Effects were good for the low budget. The acting from the rest of the crew wasn't bad either... It's good for low budget horror film goers.

"Death Sentence" is perhaps my revenge/drama film of the year director James Wan delivers a masterpiece without question and Kevin Bacon performs a perfect 10 in his role as "Nick Hume" in which it seemed like he was born to play.

From the acting, the directing, the script, the action everything is well done and top notch here and it truly feels like a gritty old school action film everything is great about "Death Sentence" if you like action/revenge films then this is for you without question. I would love to see Kevin Bacon in more action films like this.

And the main thing that really drove me into this film was the music, the music by Charlie Clouser truly captivates you and comes threw the camera and gets your attention and makes you feel "Nick Hume's" pain and you want him to succeed in what he is doing and that is revenge big revenge.

10/10