Review by okpilak

There are some positives. It is an all black cast, and not a small one, so jobs were given. But the plot holes are too much to overcome. Cherry Bomb is sentenced to prison for two murders. The film is through a lot of flashbacks, showing how she got involved with the various people. And plenty of gossip among the characters. She goes through a lot of lawyers, since she is unable to show any proof that she didn't do it. She keeps referring to Bubbles, but she doesn't know who that person is, or that person's real name, and no one seems to know a Bubbles. And she expects the lawyers to quickly free her. What seems to be her last lawyer tells her straight out that no one wants to take her case, as she has no proof. The prison scenes are simply not believable. If one is going to construct prison cells out of aluminum painted wood, then don't do close ups where one can see the grain of the wood and other imperfections in the wood. Other prison scenes simply could not be what would be in a prison and I doubt prisoners, even in a woman's prison, would be wearing very long and colored nails. In any prison, long nails would be considered as possible weapons. I can accept that some films often do not have a very large budget, if even a budget at all. And a low budget does not always mean a poor film. But they usually do not draw the viewers attention to the low budget. In the flashback scenes, there is a lot of music, but in the prison scenes, it is a monotonous tone. It is not a satisfying film.