This is a con-movie, romance, slapstick comedy, family drama, gay movie and some other genres as well. I really couldn't keep track, and quickly found it very hard to relate to any of the characters. Jim Carry was his usual self - which I find very funny - but his comedy seemed to me very misplaced in nearly every scene.
The only thing I could really learn here was some great ideas about how to escape from prison - the real life Steven Russel is really brilliant at that.
I'm from a country where porn was legalized in the 60's so I'm really not offended or provoked by the soft gay porn scenes, I just found them boring and off the point, whatever the point was? So to sum up I experienced this as a movie with a messy script I didn't understand, portraying some not very nice nor interesting people I wouldn't get along with if I met and who's story did not touch me in any way.
It is supposed to be based on real life, and if fact sometimes surpass fiction this is an example of such extraordinary weird facts that should never have been put into fiction.
I do not recommend this movie.
On the other hand it has got an 6.9 rating? How is that possible? It seems like people have watched another movie than me? Or maybe I have just completely misunderstood it! It's a big mystery to me how it can get such a high rating??
The only thing I could really learn here was some great ideas about how to escape from prison - the real life Steven Russel is really brilliant at that.
I'm from a country where porn was legalized in the 60's so I'm really not offended or provoked by the soft gay porn scenes, I just found them boring and off the point, whatever the point was? So to sum up I experienced this as a movie with a messy script I didn't understand, portraying some not very nice nor interesting people I wouldn't get along with if I met and who's story did not touch me in any way.
It is supposed to be based on real life, and if fact sometimes surpass fiction this is an example of such extraordinary weird facts that should never have been put into fiction.
I do not recommend this movie.
On the other hand it has got an 6.9 rating? How is that possible? It seems like people have watched another movie than me? Or maybe I have just completely misunderstood it! It's a big mystery to me how it can get such a high rating??