Felon (Blu-ray) R

No rule. No hope. No way out.
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  • Rated: R
  • Run Time: 1 hours, 44 minutes
  • Video: Color
  • Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
  • Released: August 12, 2008
  • Originally Released: 2008
  • Label: Sony Pictures

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Stephen Dorff's powerhouse perf as an ordinary Joe trapped behind bars with warring ethnic psychopaths propels "Felon" well ahead of its expose/exploitation brethren while still avoiding the pious learning curves of Frank Darabont's prestige prison dramas Full Review
Variety
Jul 21, 2008
Rating: 4/5 -- Explores how violence is endemic in the prisoner, no matter their background, almost as soon as their sentencing is handed down. Full Review
Father Son Holy Gore
May 5, 2019
Rating: 2.5/5 -- Written and directed by Ric Roman Waugh, and filmed at the New Mexico State Penitentiary near Santa Fe, Felon is one of the most realistic prison films ever made.
New York Times
Jul 18, 2008
Dorff, who was last spotted as a scary sexual sadist in Shadowboxer, gives a mesmerizing performance evolving from stunned civilian to brutalized inmate and dangerous prison thug, then transforming into a tested man who rediscovers his own humanity. Full Review
NewsBlaze
Aug 1, 2008
Rating: 3.5/4 -- ...establishes itself as a gritty, thoroughly compelling prison drama that rarely relies on the various tropes of the genre. Full Review
Reel Film Reviews
Oct 3, 2008
Dorff brings a visceral sense of desperation to his performance....Kilmer gives the film its center as an alien, still presence amid the chaos...
Los Angeles Times
Jul 18, 2008
Rating: B -- It's still white-knuckle tense, and held together by dozens of small, well-observed moments.
AV Club
Oct 18, 2008

Product Description:

After the system fails Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff), a man who inadvertently killed an intruder in his home while justly protecting his wife and son, the family man faces three years in a maximum security prison where every rule he has ever lived by is thrown out the window. To make matters worse, Porter doesn't get along with his new cellmate (Val Kilmer), most likely because the guy is an epically notorious mass murderer. In order to make it out of his sentence alive, between vicious prisoners and the sadistic machinations of the corrupt Warden Lt. Jackson (Harold Perrineau Jr., LOST), Porter is going to transform himself into the toughest, meanest cat in the joint. This gritty actioner comes from writer-director Ric Roman Waugh, a popular stuntman who has worked on such films as UNIVERSAL SOLDIER, ROAD HOUSE, TOTAL RECALL, and LETHAL WEAPON 2.

Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:

A loving family man with a promising future, Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) suddenly loses everything when he accidentally kills the burglar who broke into his home. Convicted of involuntary manslaughter, Wade is sentenced to spend the next three years inside a maximum security facility where the rules of society no longer apply. Forced to share a cell with a notorious mass murderer (Val Kilmer) and subjected to brutal beatings orchestrated by the sadistic head prison guard (Harold Perrineau), Wade soon realizes he's in for the fight of his life and must become the toughest FELON of them all if he's to survive the block. For what doesnt kill you only makes you stronger. And in state prison, only the strongest will survive.

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