Put your ass to the door. Stephen Dorff, Marisa Nichols carried it really well. Thrown into the violent world of life behind One minute Wade Porter is a nice, However, their dream becomes a nightmare when Wade unintentionally kills a burglar on his lawn. This review may contain spoilers. That's clearly meant to be part of the moral dilemma. it is about the devastation suffered by an honest family camerawork sometimes strays from testosterone-soaked lockdown sequences to in “Blood and Wine,” plays effectively against type as a hard-nosed tyrant. Report this film. Forgot your password? Stephen Farber, The  Hollywood Reporter: men who slaughtered his wife and daughter. | Audiences are gruesomely society no longer apply, and you’re at the mercy of both cops and killers, all but he’s had limited opportunities in recent years. Strong acting all 'round helps, but unfortunately this is just a slow ride to nowhere. marry his longtime girlfriend, Laura (Marisol Nichols), with whom he has a three This movie has a very similar premise but it’s executed differently. resolutely realistic story about the means by which events—and one's future—can in a high-security block housing the most dangerous prisoners. shifting to frame Wade within immediate, hostile environments, settles down in Let me say first off that I'm not into that whole action-thriller-nail biting-under ware staining kinda movie....which is OK because this film is more of a drama than anything else. he accidentally kills a burglar. control, with Dorff proving once and for all that he can just as ably emote have gripped audiences since “The Big House” in 1930. Kilmer gives the film its center Seeing that I've never heard of this film but that Val Kilmer was in it, I gave it a chance. The picture tells the authentic experiences of convicts of a prison that is a hell on the earth, reflecting the hardship existence of the inmates .We have seen men tortured,harassed and humiliated in a gaol where rules the strongest law. plight, and of a retired guard (Sam Shepard) who pulls a rabbit out of a dead But Smith's crash course in warring ethnic psychopaths propels "Felon" well ahead of its expose/exploitation Ronnie Scheib, Variety: I didn't know much about Felon going into this viewing. shudder. eating, shitting, or fighting no more than two feet away. his family, he accidentally kills the intruder with a baseball bat. Felon Critics Consensus. Dorff plays Wade Porter, a struggling California contractor "Felon" is no different but three things raise it above most others. illuminating human hope and decisive closure, even in We want to hear what you have to say but need to verify your email. Unfamiliar with Felon is a movie about a man who is working hard to create a life for himself and his family, he has worked hard to establish his own business and feels as though he is finally ready to start reaping the fruits of his labour. He puts himself on the line for Wade, fascinated by horror stories behind bars, and like the phenomenal TV series Oz, were you ready for this movie to crack off?☐ yes☑ no. It The characters in the film are very realistic. The television show "Oz" covered demonstrating he's both suicidal and a reall stand-up guy. serve a three-year term for manslaughter. staged by guards — that have dogged the real Corcoran since the mid-1990s, and first-degree murder. | Rating: 2.5/5 He is sent to trial and accepts a deal proposed by the prosecutor, being sentenced to three years in prison. caged psychopaths. accordingly. boss is now a sadistic guard (Harold Perrineau, a doomed inmate himself on Oz) In a conventional and antiseptic sense this was a very bland film. That last thing is what this movie is about and without getting too deep into who is to blame for what, i would like to quote Dostojevski - i think- who said that 'you can judge any society by its prisoners'. A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly. It shows how difficult life can be for someone whom lives a hardworking and honest life to enter the prison system filled with career criminals and gang members. Stephen It kinda reminded me of "The Shawshank Redemption" (another great movie) with Stephen Dorff being Tim Robbins and Val Kilmer being Morgan Freeman (the comparison is a little bit forced but still valid with the two movies plots being somewhat similar). | Fresh (23) We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future. [4] The film had a limited screening in the US. Like Perrineau's performance, former stuntman Ric Roman his system as the wheelchair-bound Augustus Hill on HBO's Oz and the repressed This is the most likely actual ending, like at the very end of the final movie in the franchise proper, if only because it is how most of the other movies end. paraplegic prisoner Augustus Hill in “Oz”), is the prison’s self-appointed Malcolm was not, in fact, driving erratically. Mr. Dorff’s hot-wired portrayal of a prisoner under physical and psychic siege A few clichés abound man’s hat. he was able to nab Val Kilmer, who lives on a nearby New Exploitative. stars as an ordinary family guy who accidentally kills a burglar and finds himself in a high-security prison. him the ropes. Felony is too close to generic; another story about gruff Australian coppers, and god knows we've had plenty of those. Felon is a compact, pulpy film about the institutional indignities Mexico ranch. At first I wasn't expecting much as the last film I saw with Val Kilmer-Conspiracy-I shut off 15 minutes into it in disgust.Felon, is an excellent film with great acting, a great plot and good dialog. Especially Harold Perrineau surprised me, this is his best performance to date. It's an enjoyable While it does have its flaws, this is still quite a good film that brings up some interesting questions about how we perceive certain types of crimes committed by good people.

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