Felon

Director Ric Roman Waugh always tells an amazingly dramatic story, wrings out all the details in a script and assembles a cast to their highest potential. That and the brutally honest depiction of the prison politics- new or not- puts him up there with sure fire action brands like Gareth Evans.

This is one of my favorite prison movies. Very watchable. Excellent performances throughout - Dorff, Perrineau, Shepard and of course, Kilmer. I put it up there with Shawshank, Shotcaller (same director), and American Me.

This is a really good movie. Action, drama, philosophical. Watch it!

I don't know that anyone would be convicted of murder in this particular situation, but this low budget movie impressed me. Kilmer was still acting and Perrineau was a hatable prison guard.

Watching this seemed familiar. Very similar to 'Shotcaller', later and better film by same director.

FELON is a hard hitting action/suspense prison flick that holds attention throughout. It's about corruption in the prison system administration, conflict throughout the prison population and convict's family tension. Gripping and well cast, directed and produced. It certainly didn't look like him, but Val Kilmer's understated performance was standout and everyone else's was very well done.

That was one heavy movie. That should be shown to all kids before the leave school. Scared the c*$p out of me.

Having spent almost 8 years behind bars in my 20's...This movie reminds me why I moved 3000 kilometers away and changed my life. I was in gladiator school. I fought my way to survive and made it home in one piece and this great movie reminds me of why at 45 this summer and understanding the family dynamic that Steven Dorff was going through having a 5 year old myself, I will never go back. This was a dead pan account on accuracy and Dorf and Val Kilmer played their parts to protection. I hadn't watched this movie for about 5 years and it just brought back so much memories and once again reminded me to never make the mistake of ending up in a place like that again. I really was surprised the first time I watched this how good it was and I just felt the same enjoyment but also reminded me and scared the s*** out of me because folks this is real I remember fighting once a week at least to survive. And now the guys I grew up with and left in my old city are the shot callers in prisons and on the street and I'm sure glad that I'm not there. Great acting and an excellent antagonist in Lt. Jackson, although I hope I don't see that muther fukker again. At least not as a bad guy, well acted by Harold Perrineau P as well. And the others who played inmates. And of course Sam Shepard! As well as Dorff's wife Marisol Nichols. I Really enjoyed this movie.

A nearly good all-rounder. The best thing is having Val Kilmer in a worthwhile part - a philosophical character with his own sense of justice. He makes it a good film. Thanks Val.

An enjoyable prison movie; worth a watch if killing time: nothing to write home about. A reasonable plot with a few tear jerking moments, even a couple enjoyable characters—Val Kilmer, Link from the Matrix and the super Nazi guy—however slightly anti-climatic. Poor cinematography, and a cheesy as Hell final speech but, I had a good time watching. The only ridiculous beyond belief moment in the movie was, it had an FBI that cared, and wasn't totally corrupted like in real life.