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Death Sentence
Death Sentence
Death Sentence
Death Sentence
A white-collar revenge fantasy in the vein of DEATH WISH, DEATH SENTENCE ponders the nature and limits of retribution, asking if murder can ever be justified. Director James Wan (SAW) delivers a high-end exploitation film, complete with a washed-out, grainy appearance and some startling violence, but with complex, thrilling action sequences.
Kevin Bacon is Nick Hume, a successful businessman with two children and a lovely wife (Kelly Preston). While driving home from his older, college-bound son’s hockey game, Nick must pull into a gas station in a tough part of town. When the boy goes into the store to buy a drink, his throat is slit during a bloody robbery attempt. Nick identifies the killer, but with him as the only witness, the case is unable to go to trial. Discovering that the murder was merely a gang initiation, Nick is pushed over the edge, taking on the deadly gang headed by the fierce Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund). Payback becomes all-encompassing for Nick: it not only takes over his life, but it also causes a startling physical transformation. Wan forgoes emotional impact in favour of souped-up, visceral, and occasionally thrilling set-pieces. Bacon makes Nick's transformation from a suburban, suit-and-tie family man into a gaunt, shaved-headed angel of death startling and believable. Full of interesting contradictions, DEATH SENTENCE lets viewers have it both ways--fulfilling their bloodlust while ensuring that Nick's targets are despicable people who deserve their fates. Ultimately, though it serves to remind us that, as a solution, violence only begets more violence.
W/KEVIN BACON
Media | Movies Blu-ray (Blu-ray Disc) |
Number of discs | 1 |
Released | January 21, 2008 |
Original release date | 2007 |
EAN/UPC | 5017239120770 |
Label | EIV EBR2077 |
Genre | Crime |
Dimensions | 171 × 134 × 19 mm · 150 g |
Playtime | 01:46:00 |
Region code | Region 2 (Europa) Region B (Europe, Africa, Southwest Asia and Oceania) |
Audio Format | Dolby Digital 2.0 Dolby Digital 5.1 |
Video Format | 2.35:1 WS (16:9 COD) |
Language | English |
Subtitles | English |
Director | James Wan |
Skuespiller | Kevin Bacon |
Skuespiller | Garrett Hedlund |
Skuespiller | Kelly Preston |
Skuespiller | Aisha Tyler |
Skuespiller | John Goodman |
Skuespiller | Leigh Whannell |
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