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Dog Eat Dog

Dog Eat Dog (2016)

November. 04,2016
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4.8
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R
| Drama Thriller Crime

Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.

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GamerTab
2016/11/04

That was an excellent one.

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Chirphymium
2016/11/05

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

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Kaelan Mccaffrey
2016/11/06

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

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Fleur
2016/11/07

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

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a_chinn
2016/11/08

I went into "Dog Eat Dog" expecting a completely different film from what I got. I'd read the gritty crime novel this film was based on, written by Edward Bunker, a real-life career criminal turned author and script doctor, and was expecting a grim unsettling movie along the line's of director Paul Schrader's "Hardcore." The novel was a realistic story of street level criminals who'd rather get killed than go back to prison. Troy, a con recently released from prison, hooks up with his old gang, Mad Dog and Diesel, and sets out on a crime spree that culminates in a botched kidnapping. The film adaptation has the same basic plot with Nicolas Cage as Troy and the great Willem Dafoe as the unpredictable and unhinged Mad Dog, as well as Christopher Matthew Cook as Diesel. However, the film makes a number of changes, including changing the setting from Los Angels to Cleveland (not a biggie), but it's the film's wildly inconsistent tone that makes it something of a mess. At times a social commentary, while at others is an ultraviolet satire ALA "Natural Born Killers," and still at other times dips into the surreal and bizarre. "Dog Eat Dog" is a complete mess, but it's a brilliant mess. Director Paul Schrader ("Taxi Driver" as writer, "Cat People" "American Gigolo," "Auto Focus") is a true master of cinema and always makes interesting films. With "Dog Eat Dog," Schrader found financing outside of Hollywood and was given complete creative freedom. He utilized that freedom to create some absolutely brilliant moments (the screen melting during one of Dafoe's drug trips, a grotesque body disposal scene, or the film's pink hued ultra-violent opening), but the film as a whole felt very disconnected and was essentially a series of crime genre vignettes. Still, genre vignettes by a master filmmaker like Schrader is going to be interesting and never boring. Overall, "Dog Eat Dog" did not strike me as heady or as intellectual as Schrader's best films, but more seemed to be an exercise in pure "cinema."

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Samuel-Shovel
2016/11/09

A trio of recently released ex-cons take on a few high-risk high- reward criminal jobs in order to get a quick cash grab. Will it pay off?There is no plot to this movie, plain and simple. Schrader and the editor seemed to place that on the backburner in order to focus primarily on doing odd camera effects and homages to cinematography styles of film past. There are so many unnecessary scenes and palaver that I really started to nod off a bit. And then, typically in a fashion that is apropros of nothing, a character will go off on a social commentary tangent on the current faults of society. These conversations never felt organic and always completely missed the mark.The last 30 minutes of this movie felt like a series of randomly assorted scenes that someone tossed in together. And that Cage voice over at the end, what was the point? What is this justice you are talking about? I haven't heard anything about this the entire movie and now it's apparently about seeking justice in the world? You attempted to kidnap a baby early that day and killed that baby's mother for absolutely no reason other than the fact that she was upset over the fact that you kidnapped her kid, as would be expected from her!There were a few shots throughout this movie where I thought, "Oh that looks nice" but overall this felt like a major waste of time. There's no plot, bad acting, too much hamminess to be taken seriously but not enough hamminess to be a fun time. I want to criticize the ending but it was really the only way they could go with it at that point. The nihilistic ending ties in nicely with my thoughts on this movie: these men have no purpose... just like this movie.

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neil-43355
2016/11/10

I should have known better - Nicholas cage is a pretty weak actor (and I'm being kind) who's been lucky enough to be in a couple of half decent action movies - the rest of his films are complete rubbish and this is no exception. It ain't even going to bother wasting anymore time reviewing this - this dog has rabies, steer well clear.

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videorama-759-859391
2016/11/11

I couldn't believe how this film started. I mean Paul Schrader, for Christ's sake? I had a "What the f..k is this?" moment. If the film had been like this for the rest of the duration, or never really would of improved, I would label it, an eat dogs..t of a movie. But luckily it does. This film, it's story, based on a novel by late ex con/RD actor, Bunker, a true Mr Blue, to me, was a crazy inane film, that's an intriguing mess, about three ex con losers, we don't necessarily like, or give a s..t about, especially's Dafoe's Mad dog, his murderous activities, where in their way, by their lifestyle of high drug taking and murder, their on their path to self destruction. The plot of the film comes halfway in, where before this, we have to endue all of our three's problems, bonding, boozing, sex play and in flashback, how our two mains met, where Cage's character, is some one, we'd expect him to play, Dafoe, the out of control one, here, a necessarily repellent character. When Dafoe, who desperately needs the money, is thrown an offer by the mob, to kidnap the baby, of a rival party, who hasn't paid up, our ill fated three take it, but it's doomed from the start, soon bringing the attention of the cops and the mob, where our ill fated three, have signed their own death warrant. Did I expect better from this film, yes? But it's trippy, indulging entertainment, Cage's demise, remembered the best, and the scenes prefore, after that fade in, diner shot. Dafoe is such a f..k up, and these great actors, give it enough clout, esp, Dafoe, but I have seen better from these two, where their black guy mate, the more quietly levelled, grounded, in control sort, was the most likable out of the three and it's not saying much. This movie is a wild ride, yeah, but it won't go in the Schrader archives. Sorry.

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