Death Sentence (2007)

Kevin Bacon

This movie frankly, was silly from beginning to end.

Basic premise - Insurance Executive VP has favored son killed in random gang initiation killing, and eventually becomes as mercilessly cruel as the gangsters themselves.

Only this doesn't really seem to be a movie about this type of violence - from beginning to end it's just the director's fanciful version about this type of violence - something so distanced and pallid that it's almost comical.

The meth-making, MikeTysontattoo-wearing, cleancut whiteboys simply don't make convincing "street thugs" - they look like what they are: rich white kids trying to act like whitesupremist street thugs. It's ludicrous.

The plot - twisted, vampy, weak.

The only GOOD scene, frankly, was him fighting one of the punks while the car slowly rolls backward toward the precipice of the top floor of the parking garage. And if that silly scene can be considered the highlight of the film, you can see how saccharine the rest of the movie is!

You really can miss this one. Wish I had.

Sorry, Kevin . . . I've liked you in everything else.

VG