Surprisingly incoherent and boring

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

So an American student gets caught red handed smuggling drugs. He was given a chance to co-operate but instead he took the authorities for fools and tried to escape. Got caught again and rightly sent to prison. Hurtled abuse to whole Turkish Nation, called all the judges pigs and expected mercy in return. Beats the crap out of a cook for some made-up reasons. And at the end kills an officer and breaks out of prison. And he is portrayed to be a hero! Movie made with mostly Turkish artists but not a single person is showed to be humane. Very realistic! And the only officer that is showed to be kind is English Spekaing! Totally biased and made up story by an idiot who broke the law over and over again and expected no consequences in return. Shame on them Turkish actors for accepting those roles even after reading the plot! And shame on the Director and Producer for trying to make a hero out of a criminal!(Wrote by a British Citizen with no relation to any Turks...the only Turk I know is my barber)

No spoilers in this review.I honestly liked this film and was going to give it a higher score, however when i read more about it because i was interested. I found out that most of the scenes and event are made up or exaggerated to make the film better! this face was a huge disappointment for me as i saw the film thinking that it is based on a book and true story and then finding out it was mostly made up! I mean if you want to make a film like this, make it without implying that it truly happened, rather than making half of the things up! The story of someone being in prison for a small crime doesn't need much creativity as much as creating all the harsh events and environment inside the prison.From IMDB:"The film was released a year after its source book of the same name by Billy Hayes was published, but the story told by Hayes in his book is very different from the movie. Nearly all of the villains and most dramatic events in the film, are made up."

I have watch this movie in 1995 in Turkish TV. It was banned here i can see why. There is no good Turkish person in the movie. Not even single one. In WW2 movies you see German soldier gives a cigarettes to a prisoner or Jews or a Nazi officer do something nice for Jews. I mean i can understand that this is a prison movie and there is no good prison anywhere in the world. I am Turkish and this movie makes me think this movie was specially made to insult whole nation and influence the viewer and give them terrible opinion about Turkey which was not good in the first place. I rated 2 because i think the soundtrack is great.The rest awful.

This one must be one of the biggest embarrassments in Hollywood movie industry and sure the biggest one in Mr.Stone's career. The movie seems to be made to please some specific group back in 70's, aiming to disrepute the Turkish but unfortunately, the outcome turns out to be a mirror on their own faces. The fate of nationalism is to make fool of ones's self.The comedy starts instantly. The entire "Turkish" characters in the movie seem to be leased from some cheap horror movie's set. This one is for Turkish speakers: Mr. Stone's "Turkish" characters all have a hilarious accent while trying to speak Turkish. Worth watching just to see this :))Everything is deliberately set up to make the guys look gross, but simply way too bad to be true. Actually it is hard to believe that you are watching a genuine Hollywood production. The script appears to be written to exhilarate the adolescent nationalist viewer only. I feel really sorry for Oliver Stone, otherwise such an important director.Do not waste your time with this one, if want you want to watch is a good movie. But worth watching to see the comedy, how one can ridicule himself trying to make some black propaganda.