The movie is about Tommy Nix (Joe Cole), a young working-class. One day, this young man tries to avoid mixing with the wrong audience but faces a bad path while losing his girlfriend and the unborn child as a result of an attack that can completely turn things around.
It's the performances that really carry this film. Cole's intense portrayal marks him as one to watch and rapper English Frank also impresses as the prison's posturing, cod Jamaican kingpin Jake.
A spare script and lean dialogue lend genuine power to the taciturn youngster's unswervable quest for justice, a single-minded obsession that results in some truly bone-crunching violence.
The way the camera lingers on the lividly bruised and battered faces of his characters, plus the clichéd use of slow motion, epitomise the film's limitations.
