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There is a reason why we get so many revenge flicks. There is something very satisfying, in a very primal way, about seeing one good person go outside the system in order to make some very bad people pay. It’s something we sometimes wish we could do, but we can’t, for very good reasons. Films allow us to see that wish fulfilled, and in the movies everything goes right, the revenge is totally justified and the bad people do indeed pay.
Unless we are talking about Oldboy, of course.
But anyway. With all the revenge flicks we had over the years, good and bad, there is some pressure put in any new film to deliver something a little different. This trailer doesn’t convince me that Death Sentence will have anything new to add, but it also doesn’t convince me it won’t. There certainly seem to be some stylish scenes, and perhaps even some non cliched story turns. And Kevin bacon can definitely pull the crazier side of the character we see towards the end of the trailer. So perhaps there is hope for this one.
Death Sentence opens August 31.