Felon, 2008

After an intruder breaks into his home, Wade Porter (Stephen Dorff) kills the man with a baseball bat. Since the intruder was unarmed and attempted to flee, Porter is arrested and sentenced with jail time.

While his wife (Marisol Nichols) and son (Vincent Miller) struggle at home without him, Porter struggles in the "big house." Gang fights are part of everyday life, and Porter is thrown into the middle of it all.

When "lifer," John Smith (Val Kilmer) becomes his new cellmate, Porter quickly learns a few things about surviving prison life.



Directed by stuntman Ric Roman Waugh, Felon is very well done but is not for the faint-of-heart since there is almost non-stop graphic violence.

Melody's Stars: ***


Rating System:
*****=Worth Buying
****=Worth Seeing in Theaters
***=Worth Renting
**=Worth Watching on TV
*=Worth Watching if also cleaning house or doing paperwork
0=Total waste of time
Fail=So bad it doesn't even make the rating system