Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Great performances from Joe Cole and English Frank let down by derivative plotting.
Ron Scalpello’s brutal debut about a young offenders’ institution hammers its messages home with a sock full of snooker balls.
A solid revenge thriller in which Cole excels.
The film heads in exactly the direction audiences might expect, without working hard enough to make the journey feel as fresh as its ripped-from-the-headline story really demands.
The plot and characters are lame and implausible, the dialogue is banal and the acting mediocre. Not an imprisonable offence, but nearly.
Offender has little revealing or useful to say about the appalling conditions in juvenile prisons.
Comes across as simply nasty, brutish and pointless.
General release. Check local listings for show times.
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