An Omar Broadway Film

We were very excited to watch this film but ended up extremely disappointed.

Omar's Mother makes this film almost unwatchable. She makes the prisoners out to be the victims and forgets the fact that each and every one of them has committed a serious crime against society, and really deserves to be locked up. Secondly the reason that the guards continually need to take forceful action is because the prisoners are once again NOT following the rules.

This film is an interesting perspective of the life inside of a small prison cell, but does nothing to make me feel that prisoners are being abused. In fact it makes us all realize that these people might just actually be where they belong.

When you watch this film think about this....very few, if any of these people have ever paid a single dollar into the system that they continually drain and will most likely drain throughout the rest of their lives.

If anything, this film does the exact opposite of what it is trying to accomplish. Mr. Broadway needs to wake up, stop breaking the law, and go take care of his family. His mom needs to stop making excuses for her son and encourage the rest of her family to become upstanding members of society.

I thought this was going to be like Lockdown, but from an inmate's perspective. They show everything that Lockdown shows, but more boring and with a bunch of ideological commentary from the convict (he held up a cab with a sawed-off shotgun, then has the nerve to talk about morals and ethics) and his self-righteous mother. The people who made the movie are absolutely straining to make the events in the jail look illegal or look like abuse, but its exactly what one would expect prison to be like. And unlike lockup, which is raw footage of officers and inmates doing what they do, not aware that the footage will be aired on TV, this was NOT raw footage, because most of the time the inmates are inciting reaction from the officers just to give us a show. The only truth in the video was from those critical of Omar! Everyone else just looks ridiculous and unjustified. They talk about how Omar probably just thought he was going to make lots of money (not that it would matter because he would just blow in a matter of weeks after he got it anyway on cars and clothes and girlfriends). How this even made it to the Tribeca Film Festival is beyond me. If you watch this, you will not come away with any sympathy for the inmates, but the opposite. Not groundbreaking. Not original. Not interesting.

I'd say this movie is an average film with an above average purpose. We expect people to be treated with some degree of their human rights whether they are in prison or walking down the street. No matter what your circumstances are you have rights as a person. Im very surprised that this hasn't been made an issue in New Jersey. It's obvious that there were wrong doings because Omar was offered time off his sentence to "rat" on his conspirators, which a warden can't legally do because its up to the judge among others. Id say watch it if you into documentaries or injustices to rally behind. I would also like to know what has happened since the filming of the movie. It would be nice to know why Omar was moved to Maryland state prison and Buddy was not.

... did they get a camera in that type of unit?!?! I've been locked up in lesser security jails and we couldn't get away with a freaking lighter, let alone a video camera! We were regularly used as practice for the local SWAT team to practice on, so contraband of any kind was confiscated quick! It seems unreal that these cons had all the electronic devices they did in the film - it made me think that this film was/is fake. And if someone smuggled that camera in, on/in their person via a body cavity, DAMN!!! The guy could pass a coffee can! That's insane! The film itself wasn't much of a documentary - when you only focus on one side of an issue it is more like propaganda.

One of the more memorable " films " I've see. Thug gets hold of a camera snuck in by a thug guard and films an expose of the dark side of prison life. It takes some doing for the prison system to take second place to anything but Omar manages to convince the viewer that he's where he belongs. Omar's mom does a lot of talking to the viewer while letting us know all of her chilun' are or have been in the joint and her business of selling the DVD is done out of the trunk of her ( stolen ? ) car . The market will bear five bucks a pop. This abomination had a showing at the Tribecca film festival , maybe a Liberal low point.. Devolution USA