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Good concept, poorly executed.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

(Flash Review)A 19 year old boy has just started a six-year stint in a French prison and is immediately in a kill or be killed situation. Take out someone a prison gang wants dead or he'll be taken out. How he handles that situation sparks a side of him that emboldens him to succeed in the political games of prison and the gang structures. Watch to see how far he'll climb the ranks and if or how he'll fall as Scarface did spectacularly. This film is gritty and real feeling with an engrossing story that smoothly blends in key scenes amongst the daily life of that prison. Good character development and there is no main story objective so you watch the protagonist's daily challenges unfold as the story develops. Very effective piece of French cinema.

This is the first movie I saw of 2016. I certainly hope that it's not prophetic. I think that movies depicting people being locked up in prison hold us in rapt attention because most of us have conscious and sub- conscious fears of being locked up. I certainly identified with the prisoner in this movie because of my fear of being locked up and my fear of people in authority. They're all copies of an authority figure which my father represented to me. Every scene shows the prisoner interacting with authority figures and throws him into deeper complications with authority. His first struggle against authority is striking a blow at a policeman. For this he is convicted to spend the next 6 years in prison. Here he encounter a worse authority figure than the policeman, who is a criminal authority figure, namely of the underworld who makes harsher demands on his obedience than the authority of the law. His obedience to underworld authority ends when he's ordered to murder a Moslem leader. This and the illness of his best friend, also a Mowlem bring him to a realization that there is, after all only one authority to whom he must show obedience and that is Allah. In fact this movie shows the path followed by a prophet according to the Koran: 'We hear, and we obey. We seek Thy forgiveness, Our Lord, and to Thee is the end of all journeys.'" (2:285) The message of the movie is obey and seeing that you must obey someone it might as well be Allah, otherwise you'll find yourself having to obey murderous commands given to you by law enforcement personnel or by criminals.

"Un Prophète" is the living proof that sometimes you don't have to have a huge Hollywood budget to make an excellent movie. This french movie is one of the better "prison" movies that I saw lately. The main actor Tahar Rahim did a great job playing the Arab going to jail, starting at the bottom, needing protection, and making his way up in the criminal world. A hard movie about how prisons are supposed to rehabilitate people but most of the time you just start as a low criminal, meet the wrong people in jail, and then climb up the ladder with your criminal offenses. The whole movie is quite long but you won't get bored for a second as you are completely in the story from beginning till the end. Excellent directing by Jacques Audiard and very good performances by all the actors.

i first came across this movie in a international cinema and just from the 1 min preview clip it had me wanted to watch the movie. At first its always fascinating to know about the true and grit of another countries underworld and to compare it to others you've seen. so it sets place in a french prison were its dominated buy the Caucasians (mafia) and the Muslims. Malik is just a lone ranger when you first meet him he has no possessions and more than a couple of franks to his name things quickly escalate for him when the Caucasians boss Ceaser need a favor. I wont say no more on the story because it speaks for it self but its nice to see some fresh actors and a film that portraits the way things go on in prison from every day living to the gangs and i love the fact it the first prison film iv'e seen in a long time that has that started from the bottom to the top aspect of it.one of my all time films in any genre instant classic