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Women prisoners together discover that a corporation funds and is profitting from the plantation-like work environment they are forced to work under. In a botched attempt to organize a protest against their 'slave labor', the women take over the prison.
Barnette, a veteran TV director, means this as an exposé of prison abuse and exploitation, but the film is too simplistic and derivative to succeed.
October 10, 2003
Filmcritic.com
Hollywood still doesn?t seem to understand that just because someone can sing doesn't mean they can act. If this film doesn't prove that point, nothing will.
August 30, 2003
FilmStew.com
Wildly uneven, rife with a virtual checklist of human tragedies that build to easy emotional crescendos but fail to engage the audience well enough to evoke any meaning.
Plagued by continuity problems, ham-fisted storytelling and a problematic voiceover by Da Brat, Civil Brand feels less like a prison movie than a prison sentence.
Artistically, its heavy-handed clumsiness undercuts its goals.
October 10, 2003
New York Times
It presents a heated-up, awkward blend of earnest outrage and down-and-dirty exploitation.
October 09, 2003
E! Online
Women behind bars! While that's the perfect set-up for a late-night, soft-core cable movie, this flick is guilty of being nothing more than a jailhouse crock.
This is a film about the abuses of privatization and presents a negative view of what might happen if corporate America gets control of the business of corrections.