There is a courtroom scene of true surprise and suspense, and some other effective moments, but basically this is a movie about a lot of people shooting at each other. — Roger Ebert

Don’t hire Kevin Bacon for a role you wrote for Charles Bronson. — Adam Fendelman

While Death Sentence starts out OK, it simply goes in a downward spiral, and every time I’m thinking we’ve reached rock bottom, it dropped another notch […]. This film reminds me of why I don’t watch horror films. — The Armchair Critic