Felon

It's nothing you haven't experienced before with a prison movie but it is brutally realistic - or at least what I imagine prisons are like. Does a better than average job depicting the pressures and stresses of not only the inmates but the guards as well. Val Kilmer is pretty good in this.

It was a good Prison movie which even manages to claim a place between the giants of this over and over used genre. Casting was great, altough seeing Val Kilmer was kinda sad.His character made the movie more interesting but suprisingly he was not the only one worth to watch. Felon relies more on his story, the choices and change of characters than just one well acting actor. It's well told, and the questions which Felon asks will surely be bother you for a long time after watching it.

Val Kilmer great as always. The story and feasibility of it was a little out there, but still enjoyable.

Liked the filming , liked the actors and liked the story somehow. But could use some story develoment , that would turn it into a very good film. Role of Val Kilmer could been much more. Nice fighting and nice Marisol Nichols.

Brutal and hard-hitting, and offers a hard look at America's screwed-up prison system.

May not possess the same uplifting feeling as "The Shawshank Redemption", but it was an excellent prison film nonetheless. It's nice to see Stephen Dorff in a good film for once, makes you forget his awful performance in Blade with his portrayal of Porter, a man who's (wrongfully) committed to a gritty and disturbing life in prison. The depiction of life inside is IMO reaslistic and respectable. We're halfway through August and I think it's one of the year's best films...

Kitschy and has seriously shitty morals, though otherwise sober and not the worst in terms of storytelling, and I just love Val Kilmer so much, I'll take him even as an odiously glorified scumbag.

Good movie. Shot caller is better.

Very good!

This movie starts a bit slow for the subject, but then when Val appears it picks up speed and becomes very engaging and suspense fun. If you like prison movies you are going to like this.

Prison film excellence that does exactly what it needs to do.

Really outstanding prison film, harrowing and dark. Dorff actually acted and Val Kilmer was solid as John Smith. The film has a great message which so many prison movies doesn't. It shows the violence inherent in the state. I was never happier to see a bad guy(Jackson) bite it.

Val Kilmer is awesome as the tough prison lifer, and the surprise highlight of this. Stephen Dorff is the family man just trying to survive a short prison term but has to learn how to survive in this violent jungle. A sad commentary about corrupt guards and the complete failure of our justice system. One that dispenses little justice and pushes good people into becoming as bad as they can be. The idea of rehabilitation is a joke in what amounts to an institutionalized gang initiation center.

hapishane, amerikan cezaevi, cinayet, kötü gardiyan; wade Porter, evine giren hirsizi kazayla öldürür ve hapse düser. Hapisane ortami yalnizligi kaldirmamaktadir. Wade çetelerle örülü eyalet hapisanesine gider araçta bir cinayete tanik olur. Kendini hesapta olmayan islerin içinde bulur. Naziler, zenciler, hispanikler ve asyalilarin bulundugu cezaevinde ayakta kalma savasi verir.

Completely uninteresting in every way. It's like there's a program for writing prison movies. Punch in the actors and away it goes with by-the-numbers events and twists.

"Felon flounders in convincingly resolving its protagonist's plight." - Nick Schager

meh

Ridden with tremendous plot holes and written clumsily this movie has very little going for it.

Felon is a prettty unknown movie and that's a crime. The story has been told before, but the acting makes up for it. Dorff begins life in prison a sweet average family man but after crash course in prison life, he turns almost Decon Frost BADASS! You just want to hate Perrineau as Lt. Jackson and Kilmer is unrecognizable as the overweight murderer John Smith with a pocket full of zen-advice. The Kilmer-Dorff relationship is almost Yodaesque. Kilmer alone is reason enough to watch this movie.

Val Kilmer surely has gained a few pounds since I last saw him in a movie. Apart from that a pretty good movie with an above-average story...

This is a surprisingly good prison movie.

A positive suprise.

Some very unrealistic elements but still quite nice.

Unheralded film that deserves a bigger audience. Fine performances and a realistic recreation of prison life. Recommended.

It makes me angry to see that Movies like Felon are "only" direct 2 DVD productions....every boring bullshit is going straight into Cinema. This is one of the best Prison Movies of the last years.Very good acting by Dorff and Kilmer! Awesome!

Far from perfect, Felon is a surprisingly interesting and gritty story of a man convicted and sent to a special prison unit run by a group of guards gone mad with power. Stephen Dorff has done little worth mentioning before, but fits appropriately in the role of a man torn apart being away from his family. Val Kilmer's role is somewhere between intriguing and silly. Has a lot of Oz moments, only this time Harold Perrineau is on the other side of the fence.

Cool prison movie. Edit: rewatched in 2411. Simple movie, but very gripping and a good watch :)

This movie relies on ultra-violence, but not in a good way. Justice is lost and misconstrued and then the FBI makes everything good in the end? That is a tired plot solution tip, "Let's bring in the FBI and everything will be wrapped up and fixed." No originality. The only good thing about this movie is Val Kilmer's acting. This should have been shot as an underground cage-fighting flick. Or a futuristic fighting version of Stephen King's "The Long Walk".

Nice

The story itself was time after time okay i guess, but I'm not much in with flicks where half naked pumped & tattooed men beating each other just for fun. This is a guy movie like serials Oz or Prison Break I do not fancy. And music was just horrible.

pretty intense movie, just wonder how much truth is in that, i mean the guards okay, power leads to abuse of it, but the way the prison is irritates, 3 year sentence in high security?

Very good.