I wish it would have been better

Rating: 6/10 (6 December 1998)

Edward Norton's performance was great. He is a fine actor who has a natural mastery of difficult roles and made me feel that he actually WAS the skinhead he portrayed.
Southern California is a hotbed of racial tension and it's time that someone finally was willing to deal with this problem in a film.
Ed Norton plays the role of a skinhead who has a change of attitude while in prison and then tries to keep his younger brother from following in his footsteps. There's lots of brutality and violence. And lots of excellent directing. Flashbacks are in black and white. There are good uses of slow motion and cuts. But not every performance was as stellar as Norton's, and there was way too much psycho-babble instead of some thought-provoking scenes. Recommended for the curious, but it is certainly not a great film.