Instead, this movie is actually in two parts. The first half deals with the four boys who through unfortunate circumstance and a healthy dose of bad judgement and misbehavior end up being sent to juvenile hall. But only for a year. What happens there is disturbing, and becomes the basis for the second half of the film. It's in that second half when the mood shifts, and those boys as adults come up with a plan to get back at the people who wronged them during that year a decade ago.

The boys acting is really good, although I expect they were kept away from having to act out the really challenging scenes by choice. Instead, cinematography, editing, and the audio is used to convey the situation. The second half could have been better, but I think a lot of it got cut shorter than it should have been. The movie is already almost two and a half hours, but it just feels like the second half is missing something. Maybe it didn't need to be longer, but just better executed. The first half works as a sort of extended flashback, and so it makes sense for things to be a bit more disjointed.

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