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Death Sentence
MEANRANK
58/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #4273
- IMDb #2917
- Google retired #2733
- Rotten Tomatoes #4283
- Metacritic #4158
- Letterboxd #3253
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #5104
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #3369
- Metacritic Critics #4496
- Metacritic Audience #3079
- Criticker #2462
- Kinopoisk #2753
- AlloCiné #2374
- Trakt #3318
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 20, highest is Google on 80. Critics average 28, everyone else 65.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A mild-mannered executive sees his orderly life destroyed when his son is brutally murdered during a gang initiation. When the justice system fails him, he chooses to take matters into his own hands, unleashing a capacity for violence he never knew he possessed. His act of vengeance ignites a bloody cycle of retaliation, transforming him from a family man into a hardened vigilante locked in a war with the gang.
Details
- Director
- James Wan
- Writer
- Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
- Based on
- Death Sentence by Brian Garfield
- Released
- 31 August 2007
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $20.0M
- Box office
- $17.0M
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