Screwed: Press reviews

'Everything is too extreme. But there's a core of honesty here'

'D'Arcy and Harper excel and there's the odd punch packed, but otherwise it's an identity parade of prison clichés you've seen a thousand times'

'we get everything nasty piled up like a great bag of detritus, and hardly a hint of anything positive at all.'

'Shonky dialogue aside, there is something grimly believable in director Reg Traviss's portrait of life inside: sweaty and suffocating'

'the film has a good eye for procedural detail – drugs, bureaucracy, pecking order, what to do in a riot etc – but a lazy one for character and plot.'

'There are also far too many characters, all bundled in to try to cloud the identity of a mystery snitch who you'll most likely have identified the moment he swaggers on to the screen'

'The central argument in Reg Traviss' overcooked drama is that our jails are so full of scum we need corrupt headcases to control them.The reactionary result should please Daily Mail readers, if not fans of credible characters and non-risible plotting'