One of my all time favorites.

Let's be realistic.

How sad is this?

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Coldwater is the story of an adolescent boy who is sent to a backwoods juvenile reform facility. As the film continues, we slowly come to understand the events that lead him there and the horrors that occur. While I would like to say that this story is completely fictional, it is not. The script and the characters are, of course, a work of fiction. However, the abuse that often occurs in juvenile reform facilities is all too real. There are many documented cases of emotional and physical abuse, in some cases even leading to the death of young teens, at these facilities all over the country. While this is a fictional story, I appreciate its realism. This realism makes Coldwater shocking and at times difficult to watch. This film is not entertaining in the way that many films are. However, I believe that it is important to watch because the stories behind it are very real.

I wouldn't call it a thriller, just a drama. A nice one nevertheless. About juvenile detention and the sick things that happen in those camps. Is it a solution as parents to send your kids in one of those camps after their bad behavior to learn them a lesson? I really don't think so, because you actually learn the opposite there. You don't come out reformed out of there, you come out with more bad tricks learned from others. Parents sending their kids there should question themselves and their bad parenting instead of blaming everything on their kids. Anyhow, the movie itself is enjoyable to watch. All the actors were good. You really feel sorry for some of those kids. The behavior of the so-called reformers are actually the ones that should be put in prison. Sure it happens everywhere in those camps. Power hungry people should never run a camp like that. Good movie.

My wife and best friend went to Pasadena to see this movie over the weekend without any preconceived notions. We were rewarded with a rich and deeply-emotional story that backfilled the plot at just the right moments to reveal teenagers who got in trouble only to experience more serious abuse, murder, and betrayal from the very rehabilitation and juvenile reform camps designed to "correct" their behavior. Lunders' character was played brilliantly in the portrayal of a teenager knowingly doing wrong, getting caught, and then forced to blend his survival instincts with an undertow of defiance while imprisoned.Was the movie entertaining? Not in the classical sense. But more importantly it conveyed a message that forces the larger examination of the black box of private,for-profit, pseudo-correctional institutions for juveniles in this country. This message still resonates with us several days after seeing the movie. Great film making!

I am supposed to submit 10 lines of text in order to post a review, this is hard to do when the whole movie can be summed up in a few words. I have indeed watched this movie and it is well done from a production standpoint and I was intrigued watching it however I noticed from the get go the political connotation of the movie from the start with the showing of the camp commander as a ex-Desert Storm Vet. This film was produced by the liberals in Hollywood in an attempt to further discredit the United States Military in the same manner consisted with the current regimes attempt to decimate the military. Hollywood is nothing but a mouthpiece of the tyrannical administration occupying the peoples house. This all being said to consume 10 lines, the whole move can be summed up as follows.Military = evil Criminal = good