Directed by:
David MackenzieScreenplay:
Jonathan AsserCinematography:
Michael McDonoughCast:
Jack O'Connell, Frederick Schmidt, Anthony Welsh, David Ajala, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Spruell, David Avery, Tommy McDonnell, Rupert Friend, Ashley Chin (more)Plots(1)
Eric (Jack O'Connell) is a violent young offender, prematurely thrown into the dark world of an adult prison. As he struggles to assert himself against the prison officers and the other inmates, he has to confront his own father, Nev (Ben Mendelsohn); a man who has spent most of his life in jail. As Eric forges allegiances with other prisoners, he learns that his rage can be overcome and discovers the new rules of survival. But there are forces at work which threaten to destroy him. (20th Century Fox UK)
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The drama is good, there are no moments when one could laugh. It intensifies towards the end, although it is basically an inevitable culmination, as suggested by the previous course of the whole movie. There are excellent scenes that will truly give you chills, which is exactly what the movie needs. Maybe making it even more intense would be truly climactic.
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In the end, the father/son storyline leads somewhere, but everything that goes before it is just an annoying observation of dull, uninteresting prison inmates and their skirmishes with each other or with the prison staff. Even the character of a psychologist who wants to help junior does not add anything useful to the film. The weakest of any dozen brutal prison dramas you can recall.
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