Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
When a career criminal's plan for revenge is thwarted by unlikely circumstances, he puts his intended victim's son in his place by putting him in prison...and then joining him.
Let's Go to Prison has a genuinely amusing high-concept premise—a career criminal manipulating his enemy's son into prison and then joining him—that gives it some comedic distinction. However, the execution is uneven, with broad, vulgar humor that rarely lands consistently. The acting from Dax Shepard and Will Arnett has moments of charm but feels underutilized by weak material. Cinematography is purely functional, nothing distinctive. The ending fizzles without a satisfying payoff. The concept carries some novelty but the film is ultimately a middling studio comedy that doesn't fully capitalize on its premise.