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Reviews Counted:9
Fresh:5
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Average Rating:6.3/10
Consensus: Felon offers a rather hackneyed depiction of prison life, but is held together by a pleasantly complex plot and solid performances from Kilmer and Dorff.
Rated: R [See Full Rating]
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Jul 18, 2008 Limited
Starring: Val Kilmer, Stephen Dorff, Harold Perrineau, Samuel Shepard Rogers
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
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
Top CriticTough, brutish prison drama with an easy windup, but good acting and an uncompromising take on the prison system.
Top CriticWritten 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.
Top CriticA good cast and disciplined direction add some distinction to Ric Roman Waugh's Felon, which is basically the old tale about an innocent man corrupted by a stay in prison.
Top CriticA subplot involving corrupt guards makes the movie even duller than the score that sounds like a rusty squeezebox.
Top CriticFor a film that seems to pride itself on its depiction of prison-reality, it feels extremely movie-phony.
Top CriticDirected with pounding energy by Ric Roman Waugh and acted to the hilt by a cast comprising several of yesterday’s stars proving their mettle, the movie delivers the thrills and emotion that prison movies require.
Top CriticThe stuff that happens in a tense, taut new movie called Felon is nothing less than electrifying.
Top CriticFelon gives everyone their tidy and expected due but outlines a realistic enough cycle of how a man's life can easily spiral out of his control.
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August 16, 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. 
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July 13, 2008:
I am proud of this film and I hope you will all go to see it. I said yes to the project because..every week in the U.S. we put 1,000 new people behind bars, yet we have the highest crime rate in the world. We are breeding criminals.' - Peace, Val Kilmer
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