Felon (2008)

The movie isn't too original. Pretty much all prison movies go like this. A guy who never committed gets into an unfortunate situation, is incarcerated and needs to learn how to survive. The movie is also based on some real incidents where prison guards were using the prisoners for their amusement in fights.But even though it isn't very original it is very well done. The acting is outstanding. A very special mention deserves of course Val Kilmer. He did a very good and methodical portrayal of Wade's cell mate who is there until the end for revenge killing. He was so good that I was almost not recognizing him. Harold Perrineau also did a great job. His character sometimes seems over the top, but Harold Perrineau still manages to make him believable. There is plenty of brutality, but I must say it wasn't the kind where I had to close my eyes. The scenes keep one watching to see how it ends. Although when it comes to the very end one somehow can predict it pretty soon.

Stephen dorff is a totally underrated and excellent actor who deserves excellent roles. This thing is very mediocre and just ism't super great. There's another movie with almost the same story line that came out sometime in the teens like 2016 maybe...it totally sucks. There are so many ultra lame movies out there on all ends of the spectrum and no-talent actors like chris pratt that the state of movie making sucks. I'd like to see stephen dorff in some really cool movies, he definitely has the acting chops if he could get the roles.

This movie stinks. Total fiction. Very liberal and biased. Claims to be accurate. Yeah right. The truth is given the scenario this man would have never been charged with murder in the real world. The shank would have been dropped. No need to actually have an inmate in possession possession of it. If you want to watch a BS liberal movie that makes cops look bad and criminals look good than this is your movie. AWFUL. Don't waste your time watching this garbage.

No, I won't watch a movie where the director refuses to use a tripod. I am reading some good reviews of the movie but no one mentions that the director thought it was cool to hand hold the cameras and have a shaky screen for the entire movie. Is this supposed to be some sort of cool effect? Count me out. It is so distracting and difficult to watch. It's about the same as someone in a theater making a bootleg version holding the camera in their hands. Really bad camera work and any sense of a good movie and or acting is not worth evaluating. My impression is that the director was insecure and needed to add this constant shaking camera to hide his fear that he could not make a good move. Count me out . I give the move zero stars. Ridiculous concept of camera work.