Wonderful character development!

Best movie ever!

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

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.

This was filmed by someone with parkinson's and a hand-held camera. I think the premise is great but I lasted all of 10 minutes. It's unbelievable how much the camera shakes! You can imagine but you can't truly grasp it unless you watch this trainwreck. Fortunately, at least one other reviewer feels the same as me.

Wade has everything a man could want. A business, a beautiful girlfriend, a son and a house. But everything changes when one night a trespasser enters his house to steal. He tries to defend the property and chases him with a baseball bat outside in the yard where he manages to stop him but unfortunately for him it doesn't survive. Laura is forced to call the police and they condemn Wade to prison. The movie has its good parts and bad. One of the good ones would be like seeing the reality behind the prison the cruel punishment and how it lives there. The bad parts:1. The Lawyer. How Wade got a lawyer from the office and had no one to represent him personally? If you know that you don't have an attorney you don't hit in the head that thief who came over you in the house, you remain inside.2.The amount of money for him to go out on bail. It looked overly large even with two zeros greater than it should be. But as I'm not familiar with the amounts that are required in the U.S.A. for a prisoner to be released, then it is possible to be wrong at this point. 3.I understand that Stephen Dorff is the kind of bad guy after I saw him in Blade and the roles of bad-boy fits good but in this movie after making a few push ups on the edge of the bed was able to beat several prisoners there and may overcome?4. The character played by Val Kilmer after arrive in the same cell with Wade not to see him as more than just sit on the toilet then goes out in so called "backyard" and he supports with the hands against the wall and do a few push ups but none of the inmates doesn't dare to touch him.5. The head of the prison, so is this the way you deal with folks over there? Cast on as dogs so they can be fighting then to shoot them with a gun to stop them and you call the buzzer? What kind of example should give other employees there?Even with some minuses is a good movie but not for anyone.