Screwed (2011)

I was so on the edge as to whether to see this because frankly this film has no place in a cinema. No offence but the cast and crew were probably as surprised themselves because this is British DTV fodder and I don't take that the wrong way but there's nothing about this film that says theatrical release- the cast are DTV or TV stars, the director made 2 DTV movies before it and it's written by the writer of 'Is Harry On The Boat?' - don't remember that? Great. And there's nothing particularly ambitious about the film either... It's the adaptation of a British prison officer biography but apart from the obligatory escape plot, it follows all the rules of a prison film.
In deciding, i even consulted reviews of the film, which were obstensively terrible but one highlighted, that some of the This Is England cast were in it - this sold me.
Well that person lied- Milky is in it and I think Woody is in it too but he's got no lines and nothing to do. Sacrilege and waste!
It 'stars' James D'Arcy (don't know) as the prison officer and Noel Clarke as the prison gangster and Milky and the fat guy from the Football Factory (you know...) as other prison officers. Our man begins as a squadie sent home after time spent in that mild skirmish in the Middle East before setting into the Prison service as a last option after that it's downhill fast as he becomes corrupted by the stress, drugs and violence that goes hand in hand with working in the slammer... I guess!?
It's not so much poorly written as it lacks originality- any of the reveals at the end or the outcome, were telegraphed to anyone who's seen a prison movie, from about 10mins in; apart from that, it's sparce in detail-high on action, which in this context is good.
If anything, this film reeks of going through the motions; i can't imagine that anyone involved was there apart from work and/or financial gain- i can't imagine any of them feel particularly passionate about it. Noel Clarke, who I like, just looks bored but isn't horrible in it. Actually, the woman playing 'the wife' is making an effort but since no one else is... I just looks like she's annoying and trying too hard. In the last half of the film, whenever she turns up on screen, it's unintentional comedy gold.
In reality, you should always support British cinema (or any country's cinema) but i don't know if supporting this particular breed of tosh but then there were a lot of people coming out to see it, so...

I watched Screwed (2011) at the cinema.
My 2011 in Movies will return with Ip Man (2008)...