Review: Death Sentence is sentenced to die at the hands of its viewers!

Directing:A
Acting:C+
Action: B-
Writing: C-



Based on a novel I've never read, I couldnt speak to how close it was to the book, or even how bad or good the book was, but what I can speak to is how the movie was. This movie wasnt the worst I'd seen*, but it definetly wasnt even among the best. the first thing that hit me was the fact that the director decided to put a home movie in the beginning of the movie, which is a trick that directors sometimes use to make you really like the characters, and it worked. but then once the actual movie started I was Startled by how dated the camera must have been. It was like a camera used to film Tv shows from the late nineties, or bad Tv shows from 2000+. The way they did this brings to mind a movie that did the same thing with their cameras, except they went farther back, they used a cameras from around 1975. the movie I am, of course, referring to is the Zombie title "28 Days Later" in which the director did so to pay homage to the middle ages of moviemaking, in which emerged few classics, but those that did emerge truly earned the title. The director of "Death Sentence" can make no such clame as he merely did this to achieve a low budget, which is evident throughout the movie. While the camerawork, and the writing is a little bit dated, the same cannot be said about the directing and fight coreography. The director did a very good job of getting you to like all of the main characters, which is uncommon in present day film makers, who tend to just want to entertain you by throwing either a whole bunch of explosives, computer generated cinematics, or badly tailored jokes at you.


*a movie entitled "Black Horizon" starring Ice-T and some other people I couldnt give a shit less about, it was about some kind of space weapon that various people wanted to get a hold of, or something like that. Anyway that wasnt the reason why it was the worst movie I'd ever seen, the director did shit like stealing scenes from other movies such as Art of War, or using a ratchet connected to a garden hose as a space-welder. The whole thing was very surreal, the fact that the director hadnt gotten sued was one thing, but the fact that it was linked to a professional studio was a complete other.