{"id":95444,"date":"2012-05-30T07:17:06","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/?p=95444"},"modified":"2012-05-30T07:17:06","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T14:17:06","slug":"cellmates-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/2012\/05\/30\/cellmates-movie-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellmates Movie Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Title: Cellmates<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Director: Jesse Baget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Starring: Tom Sizemore, Hector Jimenez, Olga Segura, Kevin Farley, Stacy Keach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A slight but amiable prison-set satire that mines the thawing relationship between a hardened Ku Klux Klansman and a Mexican farmhand, festival-minted &#8220;Cellmates&#8221; surfs along mostly on the good fortune of its casting and sly peculiarity of its forced-odd-couple premise. If writer-director Jesse Baget&#8217;s movie ultimately doesn&#8217;t seem to burrow down and fully comedically exploit its conceit, it&#8217;s at least pleasant to see Tom Sizemore back and fully engaged in something other than Eastern European-produced genre tripe.<\/p>\n<p>The movie unfolds in 1977, when Klansman Grand Dragon Leroy Lowe (Sizemore) gets sentenced to a stint in jail in small town Texas. After his first cellmate, Bubba (Kevin Farley), chokes and becomes incapacitated, Leroy lands a new roomie in the form of Emilio Ortiz (Hector Jimenez), a talkative field laborer and would-be union organizer with a wild, tangled mess of hair that resembles a sorority sister&#8217;s &#8220;JBF&#8221; &#8216;do. Racist Leroy strenuously objects. The warden (Stacy Keach) isn&#8217;t entirely unsympathetic to his bigoted views, but is instead more obsessed with potato farming on the prison&#8217;s grounds, so he orders Leroy to make nice, all in order to maintain another pair of able working hands.<\/p>\n<p>While suffering through one of the warden&#8217;s endless soliloquies about potatoes, Leroy catches the eye of a maid, Madelena (Olga Segura), and eventually enters into clandestine correspondence with her. The rub, however, is that she&#8217;s Mexican, and so Leroy needs Emilio&#8217;s assistance in writing to her and reading her missives. Over time some of his more stringently offensive rhetoric softens a bit, and Leroy comes to recognize the humanity in his cellmate &#8212; even getting Emilio a wig, to help give him the sort of silky smooth hair he&#8217;s always wanted.<\/p>\n<p>Jimenez speaks in a cadence that at times more than just faintly recalls Pedro from &#8220;Napoleon Dynamite&#8221; (no shock, perhaps, given that he appeared in Jared Hess&#8217; follow-up, &#8220;Nacho Libre&#8221;), but is still left-of-center, and engaging in an oddball way. A big part of the movie&#8217;s delight, though, is in seeing Sizemore back in a leading role; while the script necessarily requires a melting away of prejudice, Sizemore doesn&#8217;t overly sugarcoat his character&#8217;s bigotry. He&#8217;s charged and agitated (especially early on) and a bit weird, and many of his line readings have an electric quality to them.<\/p>\n<p>Cinematically, Baget leans on close-ups a bit too much, perhaps in an effort to mask his budgetary limitations. Still, he makes musical selections that really buoy and flavor the movie, lending it a kind of loose-limbed bluegrass authenticity. There are sundry story shortcomings here; the set-up with Leroy&#8217;s first cellmate goes on too long, and one wishes that Baget had a bit more narrative ambition, opening up the story to more pointed social commentary, and exploring the relationship between Leroy and Emilio more exclusively, instead of comparatively wasting time with Madalena.<\/p>\n<p>These are failings of omission, however. As is, &#8220;Cellmates&#8221; engenders no great animosity, and in fact comes across as a pleasant little surprise and calling card for its filmmaker. With greater means and maturation, Baget might enjoy further success. <strong>NOTE:<\/strong> In addition to its theatrical release, &#8220;Cellmates&#8221; is currently available on VOD and digital download. For more information, visit www.CellmatesMovie.com.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acting: B-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Story: C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Overall: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Written by: Brent Simon<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cellmates_Movie.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cellmates_Movie.jpeg\" alt=\"Cellmates Movie\" title=\"Cellmates Movie\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-95539\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cellmates_Movie.jpeg 980w, https:\/\/www.shockya.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Cellmates_Movie-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 980px) 100vw, 980px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Title: Cellmates Director: Jesse Baget Starring: Tom Sizemore, Hector Jimenez, Olga Segura, Kevin Farley, Stacy Keach A slight but amiable prison-set 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