When I started watching this movie, I thought I'd stumbled on some "overlooked masterpiece". It seemed to have a really solid beginning. It started it's downhill spiral when the white Hispanic guy goes to prison. Did they use real inmates because it seems none of these guys can act! It was fun to see Billy Bob Thorton as Lightning, but his role is small. I was a good hour and a half into this movie and kept expecting it to wrap up. Finally I looked at the DVD box and thought, "DAMN! This movies 3 hours long." As far as I was into it, I decided to "ride it out". It never got any better. The dialog is just downright hokey in some spots. It seemed the leader of the Hispanic prison gang was reading his line off a cue card made up of block letters. The lead character wasn't too good an actor either. The detective in the movie, he was good. I've seen him in more recent work and he is a pretty good actor. This movie had the potential to be something really good. They just needed to give the actors a few more lessons, give the writers a little more time to ponder the dialog and maybe shave 30-45 minutes off the final cut. I read in the trivia it was originally 5 hours long. I never could've endured that.
Review of Bound by Honor
