In 2006, Quawntay "Bosco" Adams plans an ingenious escape from a federal maximum-security prison for the chance to be at his first child's birth.
Bosco is directed by Nicholas Manuel Pino which is his directorial debut. The movie is based on the memoir of Quawntay Bosco Adams who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for marijuana possession and escaped prison from the help of a woman he met through a lonely-hearts ad.
This is one of those movies where you are better off reading about the true story rather than sitting through the movie. While Bosco isn't worst prison drama movie out there, as it does have its positives mostly the acting especially from Aubrey Joseph who really gives it all with such a limited script. There's a couple emotional moments here and there that the movie throws in that actually works fine enough.
The major problem here is the huge lack of development, I'm not entirely sure what they were trying to go for here. But the character development is just nonexistent for a majority of the characters, even Bosco gets little in the way of development until the last 10-15 minutes that are actually development heavy. The rest of the movie is filled to the brim with a lot of common prison drama movie tropes that fail to move the plot forward, it's also very over-reliant on voiceovers that aren't really investing.
It's a shame because I do think Bosco could have made for a genuinely interesting biopic but unfortunately it's a bit of a mess and really doesn't have an idea on what it wants to do.
Bosco is available on Peacock
4/10 D+
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