Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Genre: Action / Thriller
Duration: 95 minuten
Country:
United States
Directed by: Paul Schrader
Stars: Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and Christopher Matthew Cook
IMDb score:
4,8 (10.436)
Releasedate: 4 November 2016
Dog Eat Dog plot
When three desperate ex-cons are offered a job by a Mexican mob boss, they know they'd better decline, but the reward is too great to say no. All they have to do is kidnap the kid of someone who screwed up the mob boss. However, it doesn't go as planned.
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Reviews & comments
Onderhond
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- 87623 messages
- 12891 votes
Delicious.
Nice black comedy, disguised as an action/crime film. Although it is quite quickly clear that it really cannot be taken seriously. The film may be so direct and violent, when Dafoe is sitting there in his pink house then you actually know enough.
Dafoe and Cage also really make a hilarious duo. Two dangerous but extremely clumsy criminals, the type that reminds you more of a Ritchie than a Tarantino. But Schrader has something else in mind with his characters, because besides the crime, the film also has some more idiosyncratic sides.
Every now and then it even becomes a bit abstract. The drug scenes are easy victims of course, but the ending is also a good example. Or the very first scene in the bar. Schrader can easily indulge himself, a reasonable rarity.
It is that the second part starts to sag a bit. The pace is sometimes a bit off and except for a big revival here and there Schrader just misses some freshness to keep it fun the whole film long. But as a whole it is absolutely amusing, often successfully grim funny and without handbrake.
3.5*
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De filosoof
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- 2489 messages
- 1700 votes
The film itself explicitly refers to Humphrey Bogart, so to the classic film noir, but is also clearly influenced by Tarantino. The film is about three losers – the film also seems to have the message that ex-convicts do not get a fair chance in society – and starts off promising, but the film does not manage to maintain the quality. Ultimately, the story and the humor are a bit weak, but the film is entertaining.
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sinterklaas
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- 11821 messages
- 3321 votes
Nice and naughty crime movie. 
It's always a strange feeling with Nicolas Cage lately. Since 2011 you see a trend of direct to video ditto titles with the man appearing and the other time he plays in masterpieces. Dog Eat Dog is also one of them.
We have Nicolas Cage as ex-Bajas customer Troy... But the film opens with Willem Dafoe, who I also think steals the role right away. The opening scene promises a lot. Is it Tarantino? Is it Coen-brothers... And oh how wonderfully wrong it is. The icing on the cake is the color filter... where it quickly becomes clear which direction this film wants to go.
So we follow three losers who have just been released from prison... and are trying to rebuild their lives. It looks like the only way to do that is illegal. They disguise themselves as cops and dive into the drug world. Every now and then they trip, sometimes they beat someone up... and of course you can already predict that this is all going to go downhill.
If a mafia boss has them kidnap a baby it seems to be gnawing at them somewhere. And if Willem Dafoe blew the head off someone who just happened to have a bunch of information all hell breaks loose.
What I find remarkable is that the third henchman, the bald man, is considered a background figure in the film. I thought he ultimately had the best role.
The film is beautifully constructed with trippy filters that you often see in drug dramas, alternating with neo noir, black and white and a lot of other tinkering. A delicious dose of violence and wonderful onliners and action. Actually also a bit like a crime film should be.
The ending was typical. Here Cage probably alluded a little to his earlier collaboration with Lynch.
I enjoyed it.
4.0*
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