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Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017)

Action | 132 minutes
3,30 704 votes

Genre: Action / Crime

Duration: 132 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: S. Craig Zahler

Stars: Vince Vaughn, Don Johnson and Jennifer Carpenter

IMDb score: 7,1 (78.027)

Releasedate: 23 September 2017

Brawl in Cell Block 99 plot

Brawl in Cell Block 99 follows a former boxer who loses his auto mechanic job and finds himself in a marriage that is on the brink of breaking up. When he sees no other way out, he decides to work for an old friend as a drug dealer. The job is going well for him, but one day he gets into a firefight between the police and his friends on the drug circuit. Then, when he ends up in jail, circumstances force him to do violent things that turn the place into a battlefield.

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avatar van memorable

memorable

  • 173 messages
  • 1534 votes

The nice thing about this film is that it makes its protagonists go one step further towards destruction, and each time shocks the viewer because the characters turn out to be capable of things that were previously not thought possible. When at the end of the film everything seems to be all well and good with the pregnant wife and the baby of Bradley Thomas, you expect that the latter will also cease his violence and submit to his fate. Instead, as revenge, he decides to kick off the head of one of his tormentors. Here it is shown quite ingeniously that fighting evil through the use of force can turn the fighters themselves into the evildoers . This is especially uncomfortable for the viewer, because the usual sympathy we normally feel for toys of evil does disappear. The same goes for Thomas's wife, who, when her kidnappers come for her, still wields her rifle rather awkwardly, but when she is freed from their hands, she looks in astonishingly cold-blooded way at an injured midwife who stumbles out of the car. just before, it was planned to amputate the baby from her belly. The flirtation with horror and nasty violence is the hallmark of this director, and at least makes his oeuvre exceptional in that area, although it is understandable that it is not for everyone.

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avatar van leatherhead

leatherhead

  • 3556 messages
  • 1813 votes

Starts off as a typical raw, dejected crime film in the real world, and eventually degenerates into a grotesque nightmare, a descent to hell. The occasional cartoonish violence almost pulls the film away from reality and gives you the feeling that you have ended up in a kind of bizarre alternative universe. Many people may not be able to appreciate the contrast that Zahler creates, but I thought it worked really great actually. Impressive movie.

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avatar van jordorientje

jordorientje

  • 488 messages
  • 431 votes

Wow. A really cool movie.

Have nothing to say. Doesn't happen often.

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