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Nympho wrote on 10/21/2011:

It was nothing like TLAV's perspective on it. In a nut shell... I did like the movie. It was about prison love and almost like it is now in prison "just not as rough per se'". I liked the nudity to bad it wasn't what I had hoped for in the rape department. But that could have been drawn out more. But all in all It was about a prisoner that finds faith and god while doing his time for murder falls in love with a priest and tries to help a young boy in jail. But you may do your time but karma isn't done with you. It was a rough movie but I for sure didn't like the title for the movie. I am not giving it away. I would buy it for my DVD Collection. If your into the darker things in prison love, rape, the real deal life type this is probably as good as it gets or you check out OZ. A lot more nudity and all men jail. Prison love and doing what you can to survive.

FilmLover wrote on 05/04/2011:

Cannot agree more with the two reviews below - "painful to watch" and 'there are just too many things wrong with this movie." It prevented me from even considering renting 'Shank" because I can't imagine it could be a good film if the follow-up was THIS bad.

Horrible script, bad acting, listless photography, crap production design, typical gay ghetto nudity (in prison, how original), and a howler of an ending that insults everyone connected to either making the film or the gullible who watched the film, myself included. If only 'director prison' were a real thing, because these two should not be allowed to be behind a camera for a few years until they get it together. A flop of epic proportions.

So, yeah, don't rent it. And for the love of God, don't buy it.

Latisha Ebersole wrote on 03/13/2011:

There are just too many things wrong with this movie except for the erotic cover art work. There is the unnecessary breaks in the story line by too many flah-backs during in a random way, there is the lack of character development except perhaps for the evil prisoner who miraculously seems to be everywhere, there is at times no character development (the warden is patheticly unbelievable), there is no culmination at the end, predictable, and the whole film is very surreal and unbelievable; I want my 87 minutes back!

Brockstar wrote on 01/21/2011:

It was a great movie, but very painful to watch.

AHiLife wrote on 01/07/2011:

After him & his lover walked off into the sunset together ( which for some odd reason does NOT happen in a plurality of "gay"themed movies) you'll find him here.Imprisoned. He's now a convicted crack dealer, who for some unexplainable reason, is sadistically set upon by the prison bad-asses. After suffering horrific beatings, he manages to rise again, as a drug-addled psychopathic killer, who is now channeled to do the bidding of those far more violent than him, but for some unexplained reason, need him to execute their bidding.
This movie makes no sense at all, it seems forced to introduce greater levels of violence for no explainable reasons, and just is flat-out, in my opinion, a seemingly contractually obligated second movie, by those involved in the making of Shank.
I realize Wayne is not the title character here, but he is the one I bought the movie because of.
I could go on & on about how strained all of the plots & story lines & characters in this movie are. But, it would be easier to say, it all bordered on cliche.Wayne was stellar in Shank. A dark & honest commentary on todays youth & culture. Buy IT!
Release, Rent it