Another genre-buster from writer/director S. Craig Zahler, whose previous film was "Bone Tomahawk," a western that started rather conventionally before going batsh!t crazy.
This time we've got an eye popping/gouging, knock-down, drag out grindhouse prison extravaganza, featuring a career-redefining, revelatory performance from an amazing Vince Vaughn (an actor I've never much liked, but holy cow he's so good in this).
It's pretty epic--well over two hours and broken into a classical three-act structure of escalating stakes, hard moral choices, interesting characters and exciting (ultraviolent) fight scenes.
With its hard-boiled Christian symbolism (a little too heavy in spots, even for me), heavily compromised yet inherently decent hero, torture and unblinking violence, I can see why Vaughn and Mel Gibson are such good pals.
This is a gonzo flick, bleeding testosterone, exhilarating and disgusting. You've never seen anything like it, and you sure as he11 have never seen Vince Vaughn like this.
This time we've got an eye popping/gouging, knock-down, drag out grindhouse prison extravaganza, featuring a career-redefining, revelatory performance from an amazing Vince Vaughn (an actor I've never much liked, but holy cow he's so good in this).
It's pretty epic--well over two hours and broken into a classical three-act structure of escalating stakes, hard moral choices, interesting characters and exciting (ultraviolent) fight scenes.
With its hard-boiled Christian symbolism (a little too heavy in spots, even for me), heavily compromised yet inherently decent hero, torture and unblinking violence, I can see why Vaughn and Mel Gibson are such good pals.
This is a gonzo flick, bleeding testosterone, exhilarating and disgusting. You've never seen anything like it, and you sure as he11 have never seen Vince Vaughn like this.
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