On Demand Weekly

On Demand Weekly provides new movie reviews of hot movies on demand and from the POV of watching from the comfort of your home. Today’s review: CELL 211 (winner of 8 Spanish Goya Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor). Email Lorisa here.

Director Daniel Monzón’s CELL 211 brings to the screen an intense prison drama that is engaging, suspenseful and compelling. With a carefully crafted storyline and powerfully lensed prison riots, Monzón does an amazing job creating a heightened tension between the characters battling within the prison walls and the outsiders gathered to protest the mayhem.

Prison guard Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann) finds himself trapped on the wrong side of the bars in CELL 211. While touring the prison with his colleagues, Juan becomes stranded among the harshest and most violent criminals when a calculated riot breaks out.