The film started off promising but the style of film was too disjointed and eratic jumping from digging the tunnel and then back to the cells. Plus it had little credibility with prisoners seemiingly to be magically free from thier locked cells to carry out this digging. I was wishing for the film to end

a 'british' film with several faces you'll recognise.
the film set in a jail in the london area tells the tale of a long-term convict who plans an escape.
'frank' studies his surroundings constantly with one thing in mind.
the prison is a harsh place where inmates soon learn the gaurds tend to look the other way and often fail to step in to stop acts of violence and drug use.
this film could have been really tense, all the ingrediants were there but somehow with it's constant flitting between reality and one mans vision of an escape just didn't seem to work for me........shame.
you may want to hire before you buy.

Whilst brian cox cannot be flawed, the script was poor and the action never really started. It was never nerve wracking like a true escape film and some of the characters were poorly cast. Overall i found it dull and unoriginal.