
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.... (Full plot summary below)
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A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
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| User ReviewChris AWow. This is terrible, brutal, and unimaginable. How much of it is based on facts, I don't know but it may be worth looking into. If it did happen this way, it never, ever should have. If it was the director's intent to make me feel horrified, he has succeeded. This is quite disturbing. |
| User ReviewNick ADà (C)cidemment un des films les plus dà (C)rangeant que j'ai vu. J'aurais jamais cru dire ca d'un film d'Uwe Boll mais c'est excellent (enfin d'une manière cinà (C)matographique bien sur). Le film n'est cependant pas conseiller à tout le monde. Ame/coeur sensible s'abstenir! |
| User ReviewTodd SWow. This is terrible, brutal, and unimaginable. How much of it is based on facts, I don't know but it may be worth looking into. If it did happen this way, it never, ever should have. If it was the director's intent to make me feel horrified, he has succeeded. This is quite disturbing. |
| User ReviewBenjaminBrutal and torturous unimaginable horror. It pisses me off how people can do this to another human being and how the guards dont come to see what all the noise is about so they can stop it. Great performnaces from lead actors though!! |
| User ReviewFred DUwe Boll actually makes a very good film, One scene in particular is very hard to watch. |
| User ReviewAl MFour Stars: Alongside Seed, Stoic ranks as a surprisingly solid film by otherwise retched filmmaker Uwe Boll. The film opens with an inmate being discovered hanging in his cell and then proceeds as a series of flashbacks instigated by the interrogations of his cellmates, who ended up playing more than minor role in his death. While Stoic mainly uses the supposedly true story for exploitative purposes, it still manages to somewhat provocatively explore the effect of incarceration upon the ethics and identity of convicts. In particular, Stoic explores how ethical judgment disappears in the face of peer pressure and how environment affects ethical decision-making. Brutalizing, tough-to-watch, and somewhat provocative, Stoic does not quite achieve the level of sophistication that it aims for (because it is Uwe Boll), but it still manages to be a disturbing yet somewhat insightful piece of exploitation cinema. |
| User ReviewElgan DSad but true unfortunately. (It is on netflix). |
| User ReviewJordon JWow. One of the most intense prison stories I've ever seen. |
| User Reviewshaun csay what you want about Boll, but when he does dark and the sick side of humanity, he is right up with Clive Barker, H.P. Lovecraft and Oscar Wilder. The film is not only dark, but a revealing saga of how far an individual can go when confined to four walls and no ability to distinguish what is considered normal behavior. The camera work in interesting as it has only four angles to shoot from given the dimensions of the cell, and the pan view is a great allusion to the claustrophobic world they inhabit 23 hours a day. The artificial light, the uniforms devoid of anything resembling life. It creates a sort of science experiment that reveals what happens when life stops being life and becomes merely existence. |
| User ReviewGerard DBy now, everybody knows that Uwe Boll is considered the worst director since Ed Wood. Imagine the surprise when this man delivers a really interesting movie about four incarcerated men playing a game of poker that starts a series of incredibly humiliating and brutal events. By far Boll's best film, and a well deserved three stars. |