Fuck that ending. I'd give the movie an 8.5 up until literally the last two seconds of the movie. After that it's a high 6.5 or low 7/10.
I wish it had 2 seconds less
Goddamn that was brutal. I think the writer/director wants to be the next Tarantino.
A ridiculously farfetched story with the worst fight scenes in recent memory, this Brawl brought crutches to a knife fight and then missed all of its punches.
Quite a challenge to rate this movie. It has fresh and even surprising elements but also sometimes feels cheap, too unrealistic and brutal.
It's like the little, less sophisticated brother of Man on Fire.
Nice movie but the effects are so poor... Especially the ending lol.
Loved the ending and the brutality. I like Bone Tomahawk too, but feel like Dragged across Concrete is Zahler's best to date.
I can't believe how dredful this was , I watched it until the end hoping it would get better, it didn't !
One of the worst movies I've ever seen.
Crappy movie with low budget effects
lost job, drug dealer, mexican partner, drug pickup, help cops but still go to prison. at medium defense, gets intimate by mexican to kill someone at high security, cell 99, or they would abort the girl his wife was waiting. so he starts making trouble, first at his prison, then at the other high security, until he discovers that there's not this prisioner, but the mexican itself was there for him. second day he can avoid the machine that hurts, get to beat everyone down, make them deliver his wife to his friend (the dealer), kill the mexican, but end killed (cell 99).
nope nope nope nope nope did not need to see that. could have easily lived a happy life without seeing that last act
How did I miss this? Not sure what people were expecting but this is genre filmmaking at its high point.
Vince is excellent in the hard hitting prison movie.
Vince is excellent in the hard hitting prison movie.
Other than the fake effects being noticeable at times, the film was decent and would love to see more dark from Vince Vaughn XD
That moment when Vince Vaughn stomps that little guy in the back of his head and drags his face along the concrete is an image that will stay with me for a very long time.
Vince Vaughn is amazing in this one, I never thought I would see a performance like this out of the man! And damn I have to see the other two S. Craig Zahler films! If this is anything to go by, I hopefully won't be dissapointed!
Anyway this one starts out slow and let us know what kind of man Bradley Thomas is, we know he cares about his wife, he is going to be a father, he is a strong man, a big man, he played loads of Street Fighter II as he knows how to demolish a car with his bare hands, he is a former boxer and a strong dude. Some events and he ends up in prison. He has to kill someone to safe his baby and wife. It slowly racks up the action too, it is gritty and awesome. And lets not forget brutal.
The film is around 2 hours and 10 minutes but it won't feel like it. As soon as the film drags you in, you're in! I really, really enjoyed it and I'd recommend it to anyone!
(Ps. CHAYTON LITTLESTONE IS IN THIS TOO!)
Vince Vaughn has gone dark before (the execrable Psycho remake) but he goes further from his comedy roots here than ever before. I'm glad he did, as while he's an amiable performer, some of his recent movies haven't quite hit the mark. He hits his mark in this movie, literally, in a game changing performance that I hope nets him other roles away from comedy. A brutal movie, tough to watch at times, but totally gripping, steered by Vaughn's cold (yet weirdly compassionate) performance.
Brawl In Cell Block 99
Vince Vaughn portrays a man down on his luck, trying to do the right thing by his family. His performance is stand out.
There's not much depth to the story, but there didn't need to be.
Filled with gratuitous, look away violence.
8/10
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I wasn't expecting that at all, but if I think about it, there was no other outcome in the end even if I would like to see something different. I think Vince Vaughn does a great job here!
Beware, there's A LOT of bone crunching in this film.
Good lord this movie packs a punch! What a violent, satisfying prison film. Zahler is really becoming one to look out for. Like Tarantino before him, he takes these schlocky, Grindhouse genres and gives them prestige.
I would have never expected Vince Vaughn to do a movie like this. He was scary good!
Fun watch - little on the dark side (with some rather extreme violence in the last act; be warned!) but totally worth the time to watch if you are into 'prison' movies.
He sho loooooooves his mawmuh
I LOVED this movie so much. Jeezow was this amazing. So so mad I didn't see this in theaters! I was hooting and hollering in my apartment alone about 7 times. Whew. Loved it!
This movie goes nowhere and takes its sweet time to get there and tries reeeeally hard to be cool on the way, but the dialogue just feels corny. The pacing is also very weird. That first shootout at the docks almost feels like someone's first amateur film. Very odd. And those one liners? "Get ready for another 9/11!", I almost started to wonder if this was a comedy...
The sort of prisonbound drivel with the gall to posit it's got something going on artistically and dialogue-wise when it's really just a void as hollow and thuggish as its particular star. Perhaps the biggest dud of 2017 that got raves wherein all the negatives and lack of quality definitely outweigh the positives (which are basically non-existent here outside of the realistic, downbeat cinematography). Has nothing remotely interesting to impart about the potential in beating up random deadbeat inmate mainstay types either. Don Johnson (useless here in all regards) actually says at one point, and I quote: "I suspect that Amnesty International would frown upon the contents of this room." Crap, witless dialogue wholly indicative of this crap screenplay, are prison guards (even guards who may happen to be orc) THAT socially inept and Barney-dopey at being intimidating? Wholly unbelievable.
Interminably dreary and boring with a poor sense of even aimless pacing, BiCB99 is the sort of bad movie which has me silently clamoring for it to end before half an hour on the runtime clock is up as it's transparent it's going nowhere so fast......and yeah, that's where it ended up. Misguided and wrong-headed on every level, I can see why the usual beyond dumb orc garbage, or the bought-off monster felon, geek critics who somehow think they have insight on what constitutes cinematic quality (they have NONE, they have ZERO, just deathseeking pretense), or that is the complete nasty faggot John Doe scum like 'Mike D'Angelo' and any other faggot who infests Rotten Tomatoes, goes gaga like infants for this nihilist filth. If this Zahler imbecile was going to just cash in so forgettably and thoroughly waste my time, why didn't he have the 'courage' of his non-commitment to kill off Carpenter too?
5/10
Was this the reboot of Hulk written by GBT ?
How on earth does this have so glorious ratings ?
2 hours and 13 minutes, nothing happens for 1 hour and 44 minutes, where it is still boring, uninspired, lousy fight scenes and CGI and a moronic script so bad, but SO bad.
Just one point:
The guy from the cartel says you have to kill "Alexander" or we kill your wife. He goes to the prison were another guy meets him who says if you touch me i will kill your wife. While he actually talks to the same guy from the cartel showing the same photos and having the same outcome. Who was who ? why did that happened, What the what ?!?!?!?!??
I'm not putting in it spoiler as i urge you not to waste your time.
(the 2 instead of 1 in rating goes because we saw Vince on something else and he could be good if the film is descent)
I went into this film not truly knowing what to expect; I left it a better person.
So, what do I mean with the above? I didn't know anything about the director, the contents of the film, nor much except that the director is making another film with just about all of the actors from this one, plus Mel "antisemite" Gibson. And judging from the film poster and the fact that a horror-film-loving friend of mine liked this flick a lot, I...wondered what it'd give me.
There'll be no spoilers here, but I can say this: the script is very well-written. Imagine smart-alec dialogue as with TV-series "True Detective" season two, where Vince Vaughn's lines were often laughably badly written, but in this film it's as though the writer-director has wrought Aaron Sorkin's talent and made it succinctly good. Vaughn's character comes across almost existentialistic in nature.
I promised to not spoil anything, and I will only say this: this film is the first in a long time that's not completely over the top. This film is larger than life, and why not?
Casting Vaughn in the lead is a streak of genius, and Udo Kier is also perfect in this part.
If there's something bad to say, it's that female characters aren't really represented in a full or even half-assed way. Sure, Jennifer Carpenter's character doesn't really do much, but where the male characters are filled with stock-piled braggadocio and so little variation that they're at some point like different kinds of shelves found at IKEA, hers is drawn back. Asking whether this film would pass the Bechdel test is laughable as Carpenter's is the only non-male part in the entire film. I won't even go into analysing what the attacks on her fertility could symbolise.
Apart from that, this film is splendorific, something to kickstart Quentin Tarantino out of his mundaneness while loaning some off him (as though Tarantino's not a master thief already).
See this. The tone, the style, the soundtrack, even, gives way to a very enjoyable couple of hours. I actually will await this director's next film acutely.
Just have low expectations when watching the movie... and its gonna be okay. Sure not worth watching a second time
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“The last time I checked, the colors of the flag weren’t red, white, and burrito."
Vince Vaughn is great. Something very different than what he is use to. This movie really slow and it gets us to care for Bradley. Not the action I was expecting in a prison movie. Some really bad practical effects. Seriously they are terrible. You can see they had a small budget. I'm not sure why they even tried to show them, it would of been better to just leave it to our imagination. Overall worth a watch to see Vince Vaughn.