Dragged Across Concrete
Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are cops, whose unnecessarily violent tactics are caught on camera and leaked to the media. Suspended due to the scandal, the pair turn to crime with unexpected consequences in this drama from the director of Brawl in Cell Block 99.
- Director:
- S. Craig Zahler ('Brawl in Cell Block 99', 'Bone Tomahawk')
- Writer:
- S. Craig Zahler
- Cast:
- Mel GibsonVince VaughnTory KittlesMichael Jai WhiteJennifer CarpenterLaurie HoldenDon JohnsonThomas KretschmannUdo Kier
Reviews & comments
FilmInk
pressWhere most filmmakers would cut, Zahler keeps the take rolling, to ratchet tension and (perhaps thanks to his novelistic leanings) to shift the tonal gears to a degree that's cinematically inspired...
The Times
pressIn this new, bleak and often unexpectedly grand genre movie (it's essentially a buddy-cop flick, but with operatic ambitions), the thread out of place, both irritably scratching and strangely arresting, is Mel Gibson.
Variety
pressAt a whopping 158 minutes, “Concrete’s” sleek, languorous anatomy of a heist represents the filmmaker’s most extreme exercise yet in painstaking genre deceleration...
The Telegraph
pressWhat Zahler has essentially done is put a 15-minute mid-blockbuster set-piece on the rack and stretched it out until its cartilage pops.
The Guardian
pressZahler has a way with action, and the set pieces are inventive and nasty, with an unflinching eye for violence.
IndieWire
pressDragged Across Concrete may be a hard movie to love, but it’s a much harder one not to respect and even admire
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe tendency to undercut tension with fussy dialogue that continually draws attention to its cleverness make Zahler’s third feature a lot less fun than it seems to think it is.
FilmInk
pressWhere most filmmakers would cut, Zahler keeps the take rolling, to ratchet tension and (perhaps thanks to his novelistic leanings) to shift the tonal gears to a degree that's cinematically inspired...
The Times
pressIn this new, bleak and often unexpectedly grand genre movie (it's essentially a buddy-cop flick, but with operatic ambitions), the thread out of place, both irritably scratching and strangely arresting, is Mel Gibson.
Variety
pressAt a whopping 158 minutes, “Concrete’s” sleek, languorous anatomy of a heist represents the filmmaker’s most extreme exercise yet in painstaking genre deceleration...
The Telegraph
pressWhat Zahler has essentially done is put a 15-minute mid-blockbuster set-piece on the rack and stretched it out until its cartilage pops.
The Guardian
pressZahler has a way with action, and the set pieces are inventive and nasty, with an unflinching eye for violence.
IndieWire
pressDragged Across Concrete may be a hard movie to love, but it’s a much harder one not to respect and even admire
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe tendency to undercut tension with fussy dialogue that continually draws attention to its cleverness make Zahler’s third feature a lot less fun than it seems to think it is.
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