Friday, August 05, 2016
Prisoners on a rampage
Today's movie is a prison riot movie with an unrelenting beat.
A Spanish film that stars Luis Tosar and Alberto Ammann. I have seen them both before. They are great together.
I have seen this one before. And it did not detract from the suspense.
A new prison guard, actually visiting the day before he is to start working, is enveloped in a prison riot.
The prisoners do not know that he is a newbie guard and he disguises himself as a new inmate.
Because he is smart, he is quickly taken up by the leader as a close advisor. All hell breaks loose.
This is not a film of gentle redemption. Awful shit happens. Get ready for it and hold on to your seat.
It is almost in real time. Very few outside shots. Constsant. Unrelenting and very scary. I read that this was filmed in a prison which had been decommissioned and that many of the actors had been prisoners in that same place. It sure seemed real to me.
By definition, a film seen more than once rates a Netflix5.
Labels: films
