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I had a really hard time staying awake for this mess of a film.

The first 1/4 of the film was decent enough to suck you in, but then it was just random dumb camera shots (literally, 5 second scenes jumping all over the place - to no where) and some decent (but useless) Parkour acrobatics.

Clearly the concept was taken from many other films, but I didn't care about that. What bothered me was writer/director/producer Suzie Halewood's poor attempt to create a decent story/screenplay. It almost seems like of the 5 hours total of decent filming, it was edited down to random 5-10 second scenes that were repetitive and ended up no where. Major plot issues with lack of any real story, and even worse dialogue. How do two brothers meet again after 10 years, have a one-sided 5 second conversation about nothing, then onto the next scene? Jamie Draven as Harden needed much more dialogue, instead of all these irrelevant scenes on buildings.

I get this was a low budget film, and I really enjoyed the low budget effects, but the problem here is the very amateurish writing and terrible screenplay with useless scenes, jumping in and out of nowhere. Halewood's directing behind the camera was not bad, but her editing the film to its final cut was atrocious. A 5th grader could've written a more solid story.

Nevertheless, ignore the clearly fake 8-10/10 reviews. This film had a great opportunity that Halewood blew trying to wear all these hats. It's a 4/10 from me, strictly for the decent low budget effects and the acting.

Trailer looked promising, expected high action combined with an interesting idea. What I ended up with was waiting the entire movie for decent action to begin and for the villains to get some justice, neither of which were satisfactory! Save your time and watch another movie with a similar idea like Gamer or Desth Race (Number one that is).

IMDB isn't the only site plagued by fake reviews, but they need to get a handle on them.

If I spend $30 for a sub-par phone charger then I get my phone charged intermittently, and maybe I return it.

If I invest 2 hours in a movie that is incoherent, repetitive, and pointless, I just wasted 2 hours. No value whatsoever and I can't get my time back.

This movie is horrible. 7.7 reviews when I queued to watch and now under 4. It deserves a 1-2 rating. This movie is the cinematic equivalent of melatonin.

I will only recommend this movie for good background noise. The dialogue is repetitive, bland, and short with no real point in what is being said. The characters are shallow. The beginning of the movie establishes a story the entire rest of the film does not follow in a very bad, poorly thought-out way. This film is an hour-and-a-half of a couple characters standing in different locations, and that's it.

Entirely too many scenes of the actors just staring into the distance apparanty to fill the time lost from lack of content. Repetitive scenes of people just walking. The idea behind the movie was solid, but the direction was terribly lacking. Hopefully a more skilled director will take the idea and present us with a version that won't make me demand that the money I spent on the rental be returned. I gave the movie a three rating because there was obviously some effort involved. Don't judge a movie by it's trailer.

The concept of the movie was very interesting. Prisoners are filmed, and subscribers see live interactions between felons. You can buy a subscription to an individual felon. Sadly, the directing and screenplay did not live up to my very low expectations (due to Redbox reviews). Scenes didn't make sense. The lead actor maybe had a dozen lines. From scene to scene the story and shots were disjointed.

I only recommend watching this movie as a drinking game. Drink whenever a scene makes no sense. Drink when the Hardin says a word. Drink when they camera shifts points of view for no reason.

So awful. Worst movie I've seen in 20 years.

After reading some of the reviews here, I thought I was in for a treat. This turned out to be a huge disappointment, not even sure what the point of this movie was. By the end of it, I had no idea what the hell i was watching anymore. Total waste of 90min.

The poster and description of this movie caused me to think I was going to see something exciting. Nothing could be further from the truth. The description of the movie being about citizens watching inmates on TV is accurate it's also really boring. The whole movie is boring, It's like they all took acting lessons from William Shatner, say 1 word, pause for 3 seconds say another word, pause for 5 seconds say a word, stop talking for 5 minutes and look like you're thinking about what to say next then walk away.

They had a good story, actually they had a couple of good stories in this show but they chose not to go with them. I had the impression the writers were sitting in a circle in Forman's smoke filled basement coming up with all these great ideas which they forgot about when they came to their senses and they went with something really mundane instead.

Science Fiction? I would not call this science fiction it's bare more advanced that what we have today, in fact I think all the technology in the movie is available today it just isn't being used yet, or is it?

I liked all the actors, but it was confusing I didn't recognize any of the names but the faces looked familiar. I thought Nash was Ryan Gosling, he looked and sounded just like Ryan. I watched it all the way through hoping for something relevant to happen, TBH I was playing a game on my kindle for most of the movie and just listened to it because it moved so slowly.

It looks like a big budget movie but the story wasn't there. The dialogue what there was of it was good there just wasn't enough. Remember when writers used to be able to fill time with dialogue to keep you entertained and intrigued? Today's writers are lazy and just aren't producing enough words and the actors stand around looking brain dead.

I can't recommend this movie unless if you're looking for something to play in the background while you sleep, then it's perfect.

This was bad. The long shots of actors faces staring into the emptiness, trying to convey emotion and a sense of introspective feeling wears out really quickly as soon as they become too frequent. Also long shots of empty streets or random people roaming around streets used to often also kills the mood because they become repetitive. Since there was little story to be told I guess they had to try to make the movie longer. The base idea, not being extraordinary, wasn't completely bad, but the way it was executed was very poor and maybe I was shutting down but some things were missing or didn't make total sense. The overall acting was also bad.

I was lucky to catch an early cut of this film at Fantasporto Film Festival 2017 (Critics' Award winner); more a grungy future dystopia than pure fantasy, the film centers around the state's monetization of the penal system while the world around it collapses. A moralistic tale that asks you to work out the morality; opposed to the so too often spoon feeding that we see. This can leave you trying to work out what is going on at times but the film itself is beautiful to look at. Shot in Detroit, London and New York the cities have been blended together like the 1929 film Man with a Movie Camera to create a familiar but non-specific backdrop. Division 19 is an independently produced film but feels like a big budget feature.

The story revolves around two brothers, Hardin Jones (Jamie Draven) who languishes in jail while the state has turned his life into a Trumanesque TV show, and younger brother Nash Jones (Will Rothhaar), leader of a band of hacker revolutionaries who plan to bring down the State. The ensuing battle sees the aging State pitted against a brash, youthful movement that wont take any more.

Judging by some of the reviews, the film is somewhat of an IQ test. Not for the spoon-fed, the film (which isn't technically a sci-fi) looks at a future which turns out to be increasingly like our present. Everybody is watched, logged, owned by the state. The three storylines seem to cover what it's like to be trapped by the state (Jamie Draven), what you can do to escape the state (Toby Hemingway) and how the state copes with the threat of a parallel, decentralised structure (Linus Roache/Alison Doody). Yes, it may take a couple of viewings to fully get the message, but as a study in what the future could look like unless we get a grip of it both financially and in regard to surveillance, it is at least intelligent take on our relationship to our 'democratic' world, even if the message is sometimes given priority to the characters. In real life, being merely a pawn is something to avoid. Those more used to fantastical storylines such as accountants morphing instantaneously into martial arts experts, may not take kindly to characters who are almost powerless to the will of the state.

OMG DID YOU SEE THEM USING A 2010 MACBOOK IN 2039!!! Was poised to receive a great action / sci fi film but no.. every scene blends into the next without the previous one being explained. It's incredible slow. Incredibly irritating for the previous scene not to be explained. The people who cut the trailer together owe me money as was led to believe this was a fast paced slick futuristic flick.

The plot starts out fairly well, a little cheesy but interesting. Then nothing interesting ever happens. Characters will randomly show up in new settings with no explanation of how they got there or why. There's no climax or character development of any kind. A real toot sandwich. Also notice a lot of the good reviews are from the same account.

It is a great idea. Watch prisoners 24/7 for a subscription, dehumanizing them. That is what it says it is about. It starts off like it is going to be about that then goes off at a very boring tangent. It is only worth watching if you need something to send you to sleep.

Set in the near future, a smart thriller follows teenage Robin Hoods attempting to change the world and save one of their own.

Mesmerizing and emotional journey through our not too distant dystopian future.

This is a stylish, timely, dystopian film about where we may be heading. It's set in a future with the surveillance state watching over all, and "reality" television taken to the logical limit. How much time is left before that's our world?

A look at a bleak future where anonymity is a crime, data a commodity and all who take on the state are publicly ruined or dispatched to an outside world to live on scraps. Every element is what is happening now but twenty years hence. So bets placed on prison fights become the online phenomenon Panopticon TV where subscribers can 'adopt a felon' and a crumbling health service is reduced to rusty ATM machines that dole out medicare. Just how can a citizen defend themselves when the data-miners know their every move and preference? This is Julian Assange territory, where the State may be a crypto a dinosaur, but still has enough tricks up its sleeve to prevail and the numbers of downtrodden, inactive enough to change nothing. The message is clear: We could all end up trapped in the belly of this techno beast. the choice is still ours. Just not for long.

It's worth watching for Linus, lacks a certain I don't know quoi.

Set in a not-so-distant future dystopia, this gripping film carries the viewer along at a mesmerizing rhythmic pace almost like a piece of music. Then come the sudden jolts of recognition - this could be like us now, this could be what we are becoming. Reality TV run by the state and taken to new extremes, where prisoners are the celebrities and the number of views they garner from round-the-clock public surveillance cameras feeds a pervasive propaganda and advertising machine. Huge display screens on building facades throughout the city and loudspeakers make it impossible to ignore the chosen prisoner idol. The public is meant to live vicariously through his choices and to vote on his fate.

The visuals are stunning and imaginative, the acting is fresh and real. Other scenes in the film take place at a secret off-the-grid commune for societal escapees, smoldering favela-towns, as they are called in the film, filled with scavenging drifters. A behind-the-scenes control room is where we watch the powerful few who control surveillance and broadcasting, and by extension the citizenry at large, hash out their differences. Subtleties in human motivations do not clearly differentiate good people from bad. A network of revolting tech-savvy youth is threatening the existing order. It is a post-apocalyptic world that looks a lot like our current images of war and destruction.