Review of Starred Up (2014) by Tatsuhito K — 05 Aug 2015

This is a matter of individual's taste. I think it is efficiently done and certainly gives us an insight on what happens to inmates and how things work in prisons. It's just that hard-hitting prison drama is not one of my favorite genre.

Simple as that; there's a lot of cursing and yelling and punching and people getting hurt, and that's just not my thing. I do love the central performances; Jack O'Connell gives an electrifying performance and Ben Mendelsohn is ferocious as his dad.

Starred Up is uneven and often melodramatic, but it's never less compelling.