Boring and Overated
This movie just fails to offer anything different.
Man becomes incarcerated, suffers injustice, brutality and pain, then is set free.
Compare this to The Pianist or The Hurricane and it just fails to stir up the same emotion. Even Gladiator and Cinderella Man, leave me with greater empathy for the main character. I just didn't care about him in this movie.
I give this movie a 6.
Character development is thin and placing Brad Pitt in one scene towards the end suggests that the Director was aware of this. Sorry, but if you are telling a story like this one, and then relying on "A" list cameos towards the end, then you are already way out of the game.
The Caretaker.