So It Begins: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time

Gabe — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:32:39 +0000

Last night I watched Death Sentence. Shame on me. Actually, shame on Ricky first, for telling me to watch it, and then shame on me for doing so. If you haven’t seen it, Death Sentence is a vengeance movie starring Kevin Bacon and directed by James Wan, who also gave the world Saw. James Wan is your boyfriend. Anyway, the basic story is that Kevin Bacon’s son gets killed right in front of him in a “gang initiation murder” at a gas station. Oh, btw, he gets killed WITH A MACHETE. Instead of pressing charges, Bacon decides to take matters into his own hands (the only respectable thing about this movie) but it turns out the guy who killed his son, who he kills, is the younger brother of the gang’s leader, so that starts a war with the gang. Right. Totally. It’s basically what you read about in the paper every day but are TOO BLINDED by your MIDDLE CLASS existence to see, SHEEPLE.

Everything about this movie is ridiculous. For example, Kevin Bacon is a family man who works as the VP at some kind of investment firm, but it turns out he’s also really good at close quarters combat. Like, at one point he’s smashing a guy’s face into a bar with one hand, and knocking someone unconscious with the other hand, which is wrapped in bandages. You know, dad stuff. He speaks really offensive colloquial Spanish all of a sudden when the movie’s almost over but he needs some important information. He buys some guns but has to read the manual because he doesn’t know how to use them, but as soon as he’s done reading the manual HE’S SO GOOD AT GUNS. Did I mention that his son gets killed by a machete?

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So It Begins: The Hunt For The Worst Movie Of All Time