11/26/2008

Death Sentence (2007)

"The equation.
Sometimes it's...
just chaos.
That's all there is."
Nick Hume (Kevin Bacon) seems to have it all. He's an insurance executive living in a nice neighborhood where he's a devoted family man. He and his wife Helen (Kelly Preston) have two teenage sons, Brendan (Stuart Lafferty) and Lucas (Jordan Garrett).

One night while Nick and his oldest son Brendan are returning from the boy's hockey game, they travel through an unfamiliar neighborhood and they stop at a convenience store so Brendan can get a smoothie.

What Nick witnesses then, an act of gang ritual and violence by a pack lead by Billy Darley (Garrett Hedlund) and perpetrated by his brother Joe (Matt O'Leary), causes Nick to go in total protection mode of his family, facing off with the Darley's thug father Bones (John Goodman), and seeking vengence.

Aisha Tyler is Detective Wallis.

Directed by James Wan.

Run time: 1 hour, 46 minutes

Rated R for strong bloody brutal violence and pervasive language.

My personal rating: B

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