Absolutely brilliant

A Disappointing Continuation

Watch something else. There are very few redeeming qualities to this film.

If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Beyond the humor, watch this for great soft core nudity, and terrible acting... which adds to the hilarity! Good stuff!

If you are triggered by sexual abuse, incest, drug use, mental illness, then do not watch this movie.I'm not impressed that sexual assault seems to be the driving force behind this film. It was extremely graphic, and at some points, highly unnecessary.The storyline was all over the place, and so was Anna's character - one minute she's shy and reclusive, the next she's addicted to crack and attacking guards, and one day she's having sex with her roommate and the next she's banging the gang leader? The continuity was pretty poor.This movie was clearly low-budget and I don't even know why I wasted an hour of my life that I'm never going to get back.

A teenage cello player called Anna fights off the sexual advances of her drunken step father and accidentally kills him . She is found guilty of manslaughter and is sentenced to several years in a maximum security juvenile detention centre "Hold on Theo surely that's self defence and if it was self defence she wouldn't be guilty of anything ?" Yes but that would be realistic and would mean there wouldn't be a film and after seeing JAILBAIT that wouldn't have been much of a loss either!!!!! SUGGESTIVE SPOILER !!!!!! You can imagine the producer getting the screenwriter in to the office at first draft stage and shouting at him "What's going on here ? You've written five pages and so far there hasn't been a lesbian sex session .I don't want to read a screenplay that goes five pages without lesbian sex . Got it ?" And so we do get it . American maximum security juvenile detention centres for young women are hotbeds of lesbian sex . Now to be fair myself and 3.5 billion men would if they're honest admit to liking lesbian sex but not to the point where a film merely exists to indulge male fantasy . We know where to find it on the internet and our primary reason for watching a film in the off chance a couple of hot chicks showing their affection for one another in the most physical way possible isn't really why most of us watch films . Especially if it's presented in such a crass , cynical and banal way as presented here where Anna arrives I prison and within hours her cellmate is masturbating to her while she sleeps . The story and scenario is every bit as fake and plastic as Anna's silicone boobs . There's no character development and no credibility to any of this and the only remit the production team have is to include as much nudity and lesbian sex as possible regardless of how much sense it makes and how it fits in to the confused narrative You can work out the ending as soon as someone mentions they've got an I-phone and this will come back to haunt the prison warder who apart from looking like a cross between an aging Tom Berenger and Dubya Bush is also an obscene sexual predator who also uses Anna as his sex toy . Suddenly lesbian sex - even to the most innocent hetrosexual girl - might have its appeal after all

The Asylum are notorious for making and releasing bad movies, often terrible, so expectations were relatively low viewing Jailbait. Jailbait is far from great and is going to leave people very disturbed in a negative way, but for The Asylum it is one of their more tolerable and least amateurish movies. The setting is suitably gritty and cold, actually looking and feeling like a prison setting, while the filming matches that and is complimented by some fairly stylish directing from Jared Cohn. The music score pulsates with moodiness and tension, bringing foreboding to scenes that need it while avoiding the danger in being too obvious. To me it didn't feel overbearing or repetitive, another danger for a score in the style the music is composed in. And the acting is better than average, in fact it's quite good(usually the acting in Asylum movies is so bad it's not worth expanding on sometimes) the best being Sara Malakul Lane who is very affecting as Jailbait's most identifiable character, and Steve Hanks who seems to be enjoying himself as the sleazy warden and brings some menace to him as well. Jailbait despite these good things also shares a lot of problems. The story, which had a lot of good ideas, doesn't have a lot to it. A lot of the movie felt like one brutal scene after another strung together and when there was some storytelling like at the beginning it isn't just clichéd but it lacks depth- attempts at emotional moments didn't feel so natural or properly believable- and doesn't ever really ring true. Especially at the beginning, which often was so insultingly ridiculous non-stop for about 15 minutes that there was the temptation to turn the movie off(with me that didn't happen, otherwise that wouldn't have been fair). Of the characters, the only really engaging character was Anna, and Lane's performance is a big part of why, Anna mental journey and transition is very touchingly portrayed- nice to see some hint of subtlety and hope in a not so subtle or hopeful movie- that you do identify with her and hate characters like the warden. Sadly despite the acting the other characters don't register being rather sketchily written and without any real spark, the warden has some colour and threat to him but that was more from Hanks' performance than the character. The script is just as shallow and the dialogue has a lot of banality and can feel stilted, again like the story it is swamped by the subject matter and by the content. Speaking of the content, with the rapes, drug use, girl gang fights and beatings Jailbait is very violent and brutal, which did give it a hard-hitting edge initially. The problem is that while prison is most likely to have fighting, beatings and maybe drugs depending on the level of security the prison is the movie generally and in the end did come across in places as too brutal and rather too much to take, so much so it and what the character goes through to overcome her mental pain and journey swamps almost everything else. It will leave a bad taste on some people's mouths, hence why the term "not for the faint hearted" is in the review summary and others will question how much of Jailbait is realistic, there may be prisons with rape and predatory guards but most likely not that many and certainly not to this extent. In conclusion, not bad but not great, it looks competent and is competently acted(especially by Lane and Hanks) and directed and the score is good but the brutal content swamps the story, characters and script to the extent that they barely resonate. 5/10 Bethany Cox