With ambitions of being the of the London riot generation, Ron Scalpello’s brutal debut about a young offenders’ institution hammers its messages home with a sock ful🐷l of snooker balls.

Joe Cole gives a weighty turn as the teen thug ricocheting through a terrify🐈ing system.

Despite running head-first🌌 into every prison cliché going, the scenes set on the inside are powered by such relentless grit and violence you can almost forgive the constant detours the fil♉m keeps taking into standard thriller territory – lacking the confidence to keep the whole film behind bars.