Kinda of a throwback to the 70s prison movies really. Seemed to be well filmed if not that believable. A lot of nudity but that was common place in 70s style prison movies. Kinda like a low budget Karate Kid in an Asian correctional facility. Sometimes funny (most of the acting including a wooden Uncle of the girl), sometimes horrid (the lead ate a mouse at one point, the rape scene by the guards) but as bad as some are saying on these reviews on IMDb. I think some people when they review actually think they are real life critics. It is what it is.

This is not a new idea: american youngster stuff in a world where she needs to fight for survival... guess i jump to far in the movie. Even though this is some "already seen on tv" baseline for the movie, the way the movie was written and shoot is not that great. Considering they are supposed to represent a prison for young women/teenager, this movie seems to be just an excuse to show naked women and abuse people with questionnable age reference. It's basicly a soft porn for a quarter of the movie.

If you have time to loose, this movie is good for loosing that. If you want a good time, choose something else.

If you watched this thinking it was going to be a normal movie than you will be disappointed. Locked Up is part of the Girls Behind bars genre of exploitation flicks. Usually about attractive women that get locked up thrown in with lots of nudity and some softcore lesbian scenes or whatever. The story is usually the same about some new girl trying to get adapted and some cruel prison warden or some other cruel female inmate that wants to give the new girl a hard time by being mean to her. Really all these movies are the same and I just gave the plot away to about 90% of them.

If you like those guilty pleasure kind of flicks you'll like this I sure did. Cute girls in bad situations. The story and plot or whatever you want to call it in Locked Up was actually better than most girl behind bars movies.