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Originally Posted by 42nd Street Freak
Screw "Death Sentence". Not much like the book accept in how liberal it is.
I wrote about it a few days ago. the 21st century is far too PC to make such films.
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SPOILERS FOR DEATH SENTENCE
Dave, are you outside of the U.S.? Some of the comments you wrote for your review seemed like you weren't familiar with laws and how things work in America. I believe you had a problem with the way the killer is about to get off with only a couple years in jail. This happens all the time and it was a solid point in the screenplay because later the D.A. also mentioned that the killer will claim to have found God and will be back out on the streets. This type of stuff happens all the time here. A killer will serve a couple years when he should have been sent away for life and then he gets out and kills someone else. I really don't think the film was making this up.
Another issue you seemed to have is at the end when one of the killers turn to Bacon and says "you're one of us now". It was done badly in the film but it was something that was playing out long before this little sit down and talk scene. Even the Detective, Bacon's family and everyone else was against him doing what he did because it wasn't going to solve anything and it didn't. He lost a son and then lost everything else. He might have got his revenge but it cost him his wife, his second son and his life. This type of truths aren't in the DW sequels because they are dumb exploitation flicks. Trying to compare this to one of them is wrong in my opinion because both are going for something different, even though I admit this film goes ape shit in the final act.
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There's some people who watch something like SAW and they cheer for the killer because these people believe that if you do drugs, have sex or abuse your body then you deserve to die. DS asks the question of who gets to make these rules and play a moral God? Did Jigsaw have the right to play God and kill someone who he felt wasn't up to his moral standards? Does you and I have the right to kill Lindsay Lohan because we don't like the way she uses drugs? Who gives you, Jigsaw, the Bacon character or myself the right to make these decisions? I think that was the bottom line point in the ending to DEATH SENTENCE. You said it was politically correct but I don't see that as the case. If you were to put yourself into a DEATH WISH film and go on a killing spree, it's not going to end like one of the DW films. It's more than likely going to end like it did in DEATH SENTENCE.