a friend already warn me not to expect a whole lot from this movie and so i go in try to like it . perhaps it because it the director first feature film and but mainly because of budget constraint and civil brand leave a lot of gap in credibility and and visual creativity . i know that the director come from a television background and and a lot of shot have tight close ups . save money . but i honestly felt that this picture almost slide into b movie campiness . let me break it down . actor . nbushe wright be the best thing in this flick . cast a few rapper and marginal actress hurt this piece . i love mo def and but he be set up a an important character and but he underutilized . perhaps because there be not enough cash to get this thing do and some scene be not film . less voice over narrative would have help . in fact and there should be no narrator . narration separate the audience from the character and especially when the person narrating be not integral to the plot . next and sound design . clifton powell ( who play the head prison guard ) be an awesome actor . he bring intensity to any scene and and can flip direction like gene hackman and hand down . but the choice of music ( too much ) overwhelm scene that could be more intense without telegraphic music that announce what happen next . i felt like i be view a silent era film where the organ player tell you what to feel by the music cue . remind me of that damn zither from the third man and the music over power certain scene that just do not need it . make up or hair . these woman be in prison . sistas have their hair and nail hook up well than the woman i see walk down my street . the characer wet have a faded scar in one scene while a few scene later another character be comment on how she just get a bad scar on her face from a beating and then and minute later ( day later in movie speak ) and her scar be all red a fresh and even though she have them way before the mention of any beating . chalk it up to lack of continuity . a fake bloodshot eye lense be very obvious on the tichina arnold character . ( i know i mispelled her name . sorry ) the warden have this thick gob of gel that be use to simulate sweat and but it never move in all the close ups he have . just look like a gob of goo . not a big deal if it a medium shot . but extreme close up . yikes . look like vasoline . i try to overlook these thing and but they be important if one be try to immerse a person in this world . it be a distraction . especially lisa raye glitter eye shadow in a few of her close ups a she talk behind bar . some scene be just plain over the top and to the point where i be laugh when i should have be focus on care for these woman . i feel like the movie should be do again and and neema barnette give the budget and support to take her time make this picture . it be mesh together in 15 day and when clearly three more week probably would have solve a lot of character problem and plot hole leave over . so much potential . i support independent film by any mean necessary and and neema be to be commend for actually get a film on screen . at the same time and the idea that this be a film be laud a one of the best black film and be win award in some festival have me concern about the quality of film black audience be desperate to watch . i honestly do not know if the script be even up to task on this . too many missed opportunity . this film shoulda be pop like the attica prison riot . instead and it come of limp and unfulfilled . just a major disappointment . i hesitate to recommend people to see this . it a catch 22. if people see this and and like it and then more will be make just like it . not good . and if no one go to see it and distributor and studio can point the finger and say and see and no one want to see film and with a dominant black cast . so and i say go see it for what it be and and hopefully it will be financially viable enough to actually get the money to do a story of this magnitude good justice . the prison industrial complex and female slave labor and assualts behind bar be no joke . we have yet to see that story .