Locked Up

This movie is in mixed language--English and German. Most of it is in German. But it is easy to follow. I really enjoyed it even though I don't speak German. The plot is very good. It is not boring at all. The guys are very good looking with nice bodies. There is a good amount of frontal nudity. They try to give good shots of the naked, nicely built guys.I can't criticize this movie because I don't know if my experience was due to the Amazon's VIDEO ON DEMAND rental or if it was the movie itself. I will criticize ON DEMAND below. But my problem with the video was that although you got good shots of the men's bodies (and quite often), the details of their genitals were not clear--such as the distinction between the head and the shaft. It was hard telling for sure who was circumcised and who was not. So those details were not clear. But their bodies were nice and I enjoyed the movie anyway.The movie contains one rape scene, sodomy, several masturbation scenes, and nice shower scenes. I don't remember seeing any oral sex. The sodomy scenes were rare.Subtitles appear whether you want them to or not. There are no options. They only appear when English is NOT being spoken. Sometimes they get in the way and at least with the HORRIBLE ON DEMAND VERSION, they are sometimes Impossible to read!******** BEWARE OF THE ON DEMAND VERSION *******************************************************Amazon's VIDEO ON DEMAND is not good. I certainly WOULD NOT buy a video through them at the prices they want. The quality is HORRIBLE!1) I've watched 2 movies with ON DEMAND neither one was clear. I thought I'd try another to be sure it was NOT the movie. The pictures are not sharp and you may have to spend time adjusting the lighting to get the best picture.2) Although the UnBox player will allow you to maximize the picture to fill the screen, the resolution Amazon provides is not good enough to benefit from the feature. They give you just enough but nothing more. When i maximized the screen, the movie was HORRIBLE. I could not tell the different between the people and the white wall behind them. Sunlight or any type of light was too bright and prevented the people from being seen. So the movie has to be watched without the greatest possible viewing space.3) The subtitles weren't always legible because of the bad resolution and quality of the downloads. Don't expect the picture to be BETTER than the preview online. I thought that downloading the movie would be at a higher resolution thereby providing a better quality than the quick preview. I WAS WRONG!4) There was no option for subtitles. You have very little control over the movie.Unless you want something quick or you want to sample the movie before buying it, I don't recommend using ON DEMAND rental and certianly NOT for purchase!If you don't use it, they will either ditch it or provide better quality!

The movie is released by Asylum, so I wasn’t expecting anything great. Set in Thailand, Mallory is with her uncle, and in the school she goes to, is picked upon by the other Asian girls. She is hit and shoved and pushed down, takes a pipe and hits back, but not hurting the other girl very much. Well, that results in a two year sentence. The uncle takes Mallory to the ‘correctional’ institution, which seems very clean and modern, with a very nice woman warden in charge. Mallory is then taken to her squalid cell, where she finds what it is really all about. The rich uncle will be extorted for money to get her out, and everyone is in on it. When she is before the warden, she is told to sign, and that is it routine, and if she doesn’t, her sentence will not begin until it is signed, and that could be weeks away. The warden tells her they certainly wouldn't try anything funny. She signs, and it was not routine. Other then extortion for money, there are staged fights, and a white American girl against an Asian girl is worth a lot. Mallory is told if she wins, she is released. The other girl is told if she kills Mallory, she will be released. There is less of the sadistic treatment shown than in some other WIP movies, and the violence and lust is less than one may expect and perhaps less nudity. The blood effects budget may not have been large. Mallory has two weeks to go from a weakling to a championship fighter, and that seems unrealistic. Training as much as was implied would result in so many aches a person could hardly move. And the guards also try to starve Mallory to tip the odds. The ending is not only very unrealistic, it is unsatisfying.

I enjoyed this movie, despite its myriad flaws. The main character, Dennis, is played well by Marcel Schlutt. I wish I could say the same for many of the other characters, including the second main character, Mike, played by Mike Sale. In the movie, Mike is supposed to be an American from New York, but his British accent belies that. He doesn't even seem to try to affect an American accent. And while he has been in a German prison for many years, he purports to have us believe he cannot speak German -- this while Dennis speaks to him almost exlusively in German, while he converses almost exclusively in English. I speak and understand German, but the constant back and forth between the two languages was at times quite unsettling. Mike claims to understand a lot of German (who wouldn't after so many years in a a German lockup), but does not speak it very well! R.I.G.H.T.!!! One needs to be warned that there is a LOT of nudity and sex in the movie, and in some regards that is refreshing, since American puritanical attitudes about the male nude body thankfully do not matter in a German film. But if you are one of those Americans who feel that nudity in film is somehow dirty, then this movie is not for you. There is also a violent rape scene, that many might find very unsettling to watch. But it IS a movie about prisoners in a German penitentiary. You make up your own mind. For the most part the English translations in the subtitles are spot on, though I did find some of them a bit off the mark from time to time. The variance from the spoken German was not so bad as to make the translation completely off base.

Amazon.com puts all the reviews of two different movies in one place. This is a women behind bar movie while the other is a German guy movie. Both movies are unrated because both movies contain graphic nudity. The difference is that this movie contains graphic female nudity while the German guy move contains graphic male nudity. I might give this move 5 stars if the movie editor can cut final 10 minutes' jail breaking scenes. The jail breaking looks banal, unrealistic and absurd.

Very odd this one, despite the awful acting, the unbelievable lines and how they are delivered, and the unconvincing set (or maybe jails in Germany are like that?), I can't help but say I really enjoyed this film, in a watching a car crash in slow motion type of way, definitely a guilty secret. Not knowing anything about the film I came to the conclusion that they must have been shooting a hard core porn film and this was an attempt at putting something together that would pass for the mainstream market, and a little googling proved me right. I imagine thats why the extras are much more explicit than the main film. Extremely sexually charged, you can feel the energy between the mostly handsome horny guys on both sides of the prison.

Exactly as expected

.Not the full film, it is heavily edited & cut.

Was a bit surprised to see the film is actually in German (thank goodness for subtitles). Relatively good story line with some love and not only the lust you usually see in similar softcore films. Pleasant film, well-done.

Different but enjoyable