Dragged Across Concrete 2018
Directed by S. Craig Zahler · 159 mins · 2,120 views
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Zahler gets that the visceral thrills of exploitation cinema don’t land in our desensitized age unless they’re placed in a shocking context, and for the bleary-eyed, over-entertained audience, “MAGA Prestige Drama” is about as shocking a context as you could imagine.
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Like someone get a terrific pulp novel and filmed every sentence like Oliveira did with Castelo Branco’s Doomed Love.Everything after Gibson and Vaughn car started to follow the other criminals van post robbery is pretty much perfect. One of Zahler’s trip to hells that so enriched by the amount detail. The one hour and half setting that up can be saggy on spots (and I could go without Jennifer Carpenter extended cameo), but it also has a lot of very good stuff in it specially acting wise (Gibson and Kittles are great as the leads). The film is loaded and that seems the bait near every critic has gone after. The first half is drawn on MAGA sign posts to…
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Zahler’s best movie yet, in its way his JACKIE BROWN, an exploration of race, police power, class, and crime. As idiosyncratic and weirdly literary as it is vile. Any questions you have about his actual worldview won’t be answered but it’s an ugly, bleak, and often very funny little bomb. A nearly perfect po-mo exploitation film.
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You thought that the discourse surrounding Three Billboards and Green Book was divisive? Let Dragged Across Concrete hold their tab, let alone their beers. Not rightfully so — no, indeed, this film is neither conservative, nor right-leaning, nor right-wing, nor alt-right — but it’s got enough provocation in it for keyboard warriors who didn’t really pay any attention to the film’s ideologies (and/or lack thereof), to crawl out of their crevices and have a field day.
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96 A harrowing, vicious synthesis of S. Craig Zahler’s tumultuous abilities as writer and director. Easily his greatest work in a filmography both praised and lambasted for its moral ambiguity and negligence of explicit political representation. There are no excuses present in Dragged Across Concrete, his latest. Rather, he doubles down on the thin, razor-sharp tight-rope balanced across an existential void, tiptoeing between depictions of race, class, systems of media, and a changing world of inclusive rhetoric. This movie doesn’t endorse anyone, really, except maybe the victims of a haunted world, but then those caught in the crossfire are quickly forgotten. But still, it does depict the narrative of two police officers abusing their power in a fragile masculine sense,…
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i really did go into the movie wanting to have a good time with it. and honestly my reaction to it is less ideological (though it is also that) than it is formal. i don’t usually ever make critiques like this and i’m still letting it mull over and trying not to be overly critical because i came in with a bias from reading Zahler’s interviews, but it just bored me to tears. it is as slow as bela tarr or tsai ming liang without any of the meditative qualities of those directors. i know the dialogue could be read as intentionally stylized, but it gives off strong self serious amateur theater vibes: example, paraphrasing: “where’s my coffee?” “i spilled…
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Zahler’s typically pungent, stylized exploitation and novelistic sense of off-kilter detail and patience is all present but I gotta confess some of the writing didn’t do it for me. As a huge fan of Zahler (and having read enough interviews and novels of his to see some of this coming) I came to terms with the inherently reactionary premise of this long before I had the chance to see it and a movie having politics I disagree with is not a deal-breaker for me (especially if we’re talking exploitation), but the glee with which this doles out cringe anti-“woke mob” humor while stacking plot conveniences that cynically force the audience to concede some legitimacy with the aggrieved worldview of these…
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The ridiculous-yet-realist abrasiveness of the way that Dragged Across Concrete investigates & critiques society’s cultural prejudices, is paradoxically so in-your-face that you might actually miss how deep its script digs, through a multitude of character-based explorations of mankind’s politics (one of them, the most significant of the bunch, being a camouflaged but ultimate fuck-you @ the political preconceptions displayed by almost every other character). The narrative itself is quite A-to-B-to-C in terms of its simplicity, but it’s exhibited with a fusion of long conversational sequences and quiet (until they get loud), slow, suspenseful, and horrifically authentic set pieces. This wraps the plot in a thick blanket of political examination and tempestuous gun violence, disguising a glacial contemplation on the state of…
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A great exploitation movie. Mel Gibson has never been better. I would not want to be friends with any of the key creative talent behind this movie, but none of them are inviting me to dinner anyway.
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I genuinely don’t know why people think this is a fascist or even right wing movie, when this is actually some of the greatest satire ever made? From the jump we’re learning about the material conditions which drive our three protagonists to commit violence for pay against complete strangers. Never are any real distinctions made between the police and the criminals, and if anything more contempt is shown in the movie towards the lower middle class police officers for attempting to stave off an existence that the black getaway driver has already obtained. To that end, it is that conservative fantasy that proves the undoing for these white out of town police officers. Visually we’re shown the scene of a…
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62/100 Zahler clearly wants to be his generation’s Don Siegel, right down to inspiring heated debate about whether / to what extent he’s a reactionary. I’ve mostly been a defender thus far, and it seems clear to me that some of the deliberately outrageous scenes here—e.g. Gibson and Vaughn’s badass cops pretending they can’t understand a (nude!) Latinx woman who speaks perfect English—constitute deliberate trolling of his critics. Depiction is not endorsement, etc. But it really does feel as if we’re meant to identify primarily with the sense of self-righteous grievance expressed by our suspended “heroes,” and perhaps to bridle at the happy ending that other characters receive. Zahler still complicates things enough to achieve plausible deniability, but I’m coming…
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It’s a mystery why this film isn’t more well known. Sure, it’s a slow burn. But it’s a really competent piece of film making. Tight set pieces, two great leads, and a maturity beyond expectations.
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Too long. Sometimes the dialogue is incredibly clunky. Sometimes vince Vaughn is sleepwalking. But as the movie progresses it gets more and more engaging with the final act being quite entertaining
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S. Craig Zahler really knows how to make a movie that feels like it’s going to be one thing, only to slowly turn into something completely different. Dragged Across Concrete is an incredibly slow-burn crime thriller, but the pacing works surprisingly well. Zahler takes his time building up these characters and letting the tension slowly simmer before everything inevitably explodes. Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn are both fantastic, and I especially loved how their characters are written. They’re not exactly…
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Кто-нибудь, дайте, пожалуйста, Крэйгу Залеру мет 🙏 Почему у него такие медленные фильмы… Пришлось три раза стопать. Ощущение, что посмотрела сериал Пришлось также перестать есть, когда начали вынимать ключ из желудка чела… Некоторые диалоги до середины фильма глупи, ппц Мама сказала, что я тоже, как герой Гибсона, считаю всё в процентах 😶🌫 Жених отъехал 😔🕯🙏 Экшона было очень мало, и я скучала по жести, которой было много в его предыдущем фильме Короче, пока я остаюсь фаном только его Драки в…
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A handful of scenes really hit a stride that impressed me but, the scenes of never-ending dragging dialogue that felt disingenuous kept me disconnected from the movie. Mel and Vince’s introduction was done in a cool way and I enjoyed the cat and mouse dynamic that started around the robbery that ended in the armored truck standoff.
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just watched this bc of the shorts people made about the robber shooting the van they call him masked redditor i just can’t look at the masked guy and take him seriously even when hes a murderer lmao
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a little bit underwhelming compared to brawl in cell block 99 but still enjoyable
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Les attentes que j’avais sur ce film… C’est un film qui divise et je comprend maintenant pourquoi. Le film est BEAUCOUP TROP LONG, certes y’en a qui disent que c’est pour mieux apprécier le scénario mais la plus d’une heure est de trop. Les personnages sont extrêmement détestables et quel film raciste ! Pour faire court, long, chiant, et raciste comme Mel Gibson finalement.
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“Depois que tudo isso acabar e ser esquecido, vou voltar para enterrar vocês da maneira certa.”
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Good chud flick
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Love a Zahler third act. Not my fav of his, but still cool. Gore was unexpected.
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Boa trama com frieza e violência. Envolve muitos personagens e dá um bom parâmetro de cada um, além de diálogos longos e tarantinescos, por isso se arrasta bastante, mas o resultado final e bem satisfatório.
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Goddamn this was some gripping molasses. The 4chan middle school (yet somehow also boomer) mindset moments aside, this is a simple story about two white cops who can’t help but be tempted and overtaken by all the power and privilege American white copness bestows upon them. Not a second of boredom over 159 minutes. Greatest performance of Jennifer Carpenter’s career.
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Yeahhhhhh idk bout this one
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Way longer than it had to be
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genuinely one of the worst third acts out there
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Really enjoyed it just wish no one won in the end
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2.5 hours of a decent “crooked cop” movie. One of those movies that you have to guess who’s the bad guy vs the good guy the entire time which is fun. Some random scenes that really had no reason to be 25+ minutes long and coulda made this long movie into a normal 90 min Vince Vaughn special. Which brings me to question. What made Vince think he should leave the raunchy comedy scene. He did ok. 2.5/5 is fair, I’ve seen it 3 times now though. So 3/5 is more fair. Violent , really bad FX. Good way to kill time.
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excellent
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direitistas modernos são, em geral, tão tecnicamente ineptos na maioria dos campos artísticos que é chocante quando um filme feito por um deles é competente, quanto mais interessante. este filme é um thriller criminal muito bem construído, pincelado com camadas e camadas de depravação e vileza que só poderiam vir da mente de um reaça alucinado. nenhuma cena chega no mesmo nível de perversão de Bone Tomahawk, mas tem muita maldade aqui. bom filme.
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bro writes great characters & dialogue. worldview & the bad guys: depraved .. somewhat tasteless.
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I’ve been on a binge of Zahler’s films these past few days, mostly because Zahler has a controversial reputation for being a “reactionary director”. Many people compared him to Tarantino, who is a director I cannot stand, so I was cautious when viewing his films for the first time. Both Zahler and Tarantino take influence from exploitation cinema, but Zahler’s works are more like slow paced dramas with exploitation influences, rather than traditional exploitation flicks. I found Bone Tomahawk to…
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all the world’s a meat crayon
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De um lado, Ridgeman assistindo um documentário de leões e seus filhotes ao lado de sua filha, do outro, Henry e seu irmão mais novo caçando leões em um game em meio ao safari. Zahler é realmente um dos melhores diretores norte-americanos contemporâneos.
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Good heist movie decent plot and turn of events gives the satisfaction a heist movie should give
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Achei fraco. Quase nenhum momento desse filme me cativa, apenas teve 3 mortes q me importei de vdd. Por causa de cenas imprevisíveis q já sabemos que é um ponto alto do excelente Craig Zahler, e por uma excelente atuação de Mel Gibson e Vince Vaughn, conseguiram fazer boas cenas de tensão e agonia. Dito isso é o pior filme do Zahler. 6,5/10
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This is okay if you like Vince Vaughn
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2 saate kısaltılabilirmiş, no country for old men havaları verdi
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“Do not prioritize money over having a heartbeat”
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its good I liked it
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Not seen anything quite like this before. Dark and satirical, like Mamet and sad Tarantino sat down to write a bizaro anti Heat meets 2.5 hour episode of The Wire. Mel Gibson is excellent. Vince Vaughan always interesting. Never seen Tory Kittles before. It’s his film. Takes a while to settle into the tone and groove but once you’re in, it’s a must watch to the end. No camera moves. No score. Every set is meticulously minimal. Now need to watch the director’s back catalogue.
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Poor Jennifer Carpenter
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Rare pépite sombre
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Plot is a thin veneer for vague conservative ideology. That alone doesn’t disqualify it from being a good movie, but it’s not a good movie lol. Zero point to it, one star bc some of the action is interestingly choreographed
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Heat with racist guys, but transcendent in its reactionary vision, its exploitation, its breadth of scope. I find Zahler right-wing in the most self-effacing way. You wonder what he’s commenting on, who he’s mocking, what he’s saying. I can’t get over his shit
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open.spotify.com/track/5Ril8bEQeqlPmaoK6lrWd4?si=QohP5jlyQR27TH4NMtxweA&utm_source=copy-link Que película del re carajo la reputísima madre, agigantada como precedente al asesinato de Floyd y el BLM. El mundo es una selva.
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Most original Picture
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THE PS4 CONTROLLERS ARE OFF😭😭😭 The more I sit with this one the less I like it. Sri don’t feel like typing out a novel but it feels like the writing devolved throughout the film and we end up with a long ass dragged out 3rd act that I was just done with.
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Corny and burns painfully slow with a few exceptional scenes as a little treat.
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Gets very Grimey towards the end but a very good performance from Gibson here if you like corrupt cop thrillers
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Was this movie good? 100 percent.
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some parts felt like it was there just for shock value, but overall an interesting story
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Wood watch again. It’s a great tale and with so much whimsey… and killing
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Shoot out scenes were brilliant, definitely a dark horse of a crooked cop film. Slim sticking to his word was impressive.
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Pas une musique ?
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anchovies and crud were not strong enough words for this movie i swear my hand was over my mouth for almost the entire last half of the movie this horrified me bro it was too realistic the violence was too sad – i liked how it was mostly quiet though i feel like that made it felt more realistic good but lowk would never watch again
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très clean très efficace, j’aime bcp le rythme du film, Zahler il est mega top pas 5 étoiles néanmoins, j’ai préféré Brawl In Cell Block 99 🥹🤙
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Probably the best looking cop drama. Every shot is a cinematographic gem. Perfect framing, colors, audio, contrast, and lightning play together so well to create a truly visually stunning movie. Good plot & dialogue.
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100% moustache
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anchovies
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Based on the director’s previous two movies, I was really surprised that no one got dragged across concrete.
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I would have liked it better if it were around 2 hours long But this is quite an engaging genre movie Specially the middle act is so tight Gibson and Vaughn as the detective duo are superb. I was also surprised by how violent it turned out to be.
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Part 2 of my Zahler double feature. As a whole not as good as Brawl, first half is a bit too long but once they start following the van it’s 90 minutes straight of non-stop tension and rocks so hard
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Zahler is certainly an auteur with a singular vision that he is committed to putting on screen. The stilted dialogue, the absurd violence, and the glacial plotting… it’s certainly a vibe. I think I “got it” more this time around than when I watched Brawl in Cell Block 99… but I’m not sure it’s that great. If Tarantino is Dr. Pepper, Zahler is like Mr. Pibb. Or maybe like Dr. Thunder. It just doesn’t really totally work when it feels…
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The robbers played their roles very well. Pretty brutal scenes and reminded me of Conner. Surprisingly good for what it is but I didn’t enjoy the ending too much, felt like it could’ve been better.
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– one of the greatest films I’ve ever watched and one of the most underrated films that needs to be watched more and talked about it’s really incredible and the story written so well, I’ve watched it for the first time 5 years ago and i still remember it well and i remember how much i was impressed by it and i had to rewatch it and definitely will come again to rewatch it again someday. – My Favorites of all times (not ranked)
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damn they did Dexter’s sister dirty!! anyway this one was another pretty good Zahler. dragged a little across the concrete but you know… still very watchable and lowkey brutal in a realistic way.
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Perhaps it’s because it has to follow a movie I see behind my eyelids in flashes of fear, but I was a bit underwhelmed by this film compared to Bone Tomahawk. Maybe it’s because I find the politics a little harder to ignore or maybe I was not really loving Mel Gibson before I even knew he said those things, but this one had an uphill battle of expectations it could only fight for so long. That said, what a…
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Kkingy1212 8 月 11, 2026
Good film, enjoyable. Only reviewing films from past few days and future
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i loved this movie soo much but i have to admit that i would have been lost without my love’s guidance about its plot. everything is connected so perfectly and mel gibson’s performance was incredible as always, especially with his percentage and grammar hyper fixations 🎀 ౨ৎ 5/5
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I’m think I like these Zahler films
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kara director sonnar nu kara pathen- pudikala, but idhu pudichi irundhch.
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started with a downright fascinating snapshot of conservative values wrapped into the characters and story(even if I disagree with those values) and slowly descended into manipulative and hateful slop that bored me half to death and made me fall out of my seat drooling on the ground and shoveling shit into my mouth any and all messages are garbled under blind hatred/fear and unreasonable ambiguity that ultimately led to trash on trash on top of trash with a little more…
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dark and kinda goofy at first, but it gets real good
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Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn work well together in this dramatic, buddy cop, 70s film noir style action-thriller. They play things totally different and that’s why it works. They have two very different approaches to the same job that allows for a lot of good scenes together, with a bit of good humor thrown in here or there (but still rare). In classic Zahler fashion, the violence is gripping, brutal and realistic. The crime and heist scenarios we find our…
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That dad must hate himself, sending his wife to work, only for her to be blown to pieces, by robbers, who look like a 14 year olds imagination of cool guys.
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Visceral and intense Michael Jai White is in this movie, feels like a lot of his scenes got trimmed down.
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When anyone asks me if I could get a beer with any celebrity who would I choose, I always say Mel Gibson. No one has but if anyone were to ask me who my second choice would be, it would undoubtedly be Vince Vaughn. And my two beer buddies make a great cop duo, lots of good riffing back and forth. “Would you like me to mail or hand deliver your genius award?”
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Twisted modern gonzo pulp noir. Gibson and Vaughn inconceivably mesh perfectly. And Kittle’s calm and cool performance balance the opposite side of the story as it unfolds. The supporting cast is phenomenal, especially the Zahler veterans. But the real superstar is Zahler. This guy is a freak. A glorious freak. His dialogue is gritty poetry, his shot framing and lighting is bonkers, the violence is disturbingly realistic, the pacing could induce psychosis, but all those ingredients are what make this crazy cocktail work. 2018 Releases Ranked
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Hard to watch
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77/100
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The dialogue in this is sorta like Tarantino, but without any ounce of humor or joy whatsoever. Like funny words are coming out of their mouths, but these people are dead inside. Totally works for the movie, though!
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It is incredible what Republicans can do when they focus up on making really good art
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From the name alone I was geared up for some schlocky run of the mill action thriller, but this is anything but that. Instead what we get is a stripped down in real time crime procedural with no music and little flair. It’s a minimalist crime drama in the vein of Heat. What could very well be a boring and bloated 2:30, I found the writing and the characters engaging. I was quickly able to settle in and relax with…
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Slow-burn crime thriller with a surprisingly great Mel Gibson performance. Emphasis on “slow”. A running time of nearly two hours and forty minutes is just way too long for this type of movie for me. (One detail I liked is that to show that a character has gone from poor to rich, their standard black Xbox controller is changed to a transparent blue one.)
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Lots of scenes of Gibson and Vaughn doing very little peppered with visceral violence and existential moral decisions. Electric.
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I was recommended this film by two people who have pretty good taste in film as “one of the best films made in the past decade”, it’s not terrible but it’s pretty weak and derivative without offering anything that subversive or new as a counterweight. I’d avoided this film because I get squeamish about gratuitous violence but it wasn’t that bad in that department but a hell of a long film to not really get anything across apart from a…
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Chud hallmark. Probably the least convincing portrayal of real human beings I’ve seen in a movie. Watching dragged across concrete felt like drowning in wet cement. 1 star for shooting in Vancouver .5 star for “I was really into dinosaurs back then”
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Yeah idk how to describe this or what to make of it. Half the time feels like it’s made by the Daily Wire, half the time made to expose some sort of racism? Didn’t make sense, didn’t flow
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Hats off- the Jennifer Carpenter section is sicko shit of the highest order.
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Probably the best pulp crime movie this past decade. Feels like a hard boiled crime novel brought to life. Gets better with each watch.
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MMistrom 8 月 8, 2026
In a weird spot with this movie. I guess I’ll start with the things I’m less unsure of. This movie really starts at the bank robbery. Up to that point, it is mostly long stretches of being in a car talking about doing rhe thing theyre gonna do. In a cast of characters that are both generally unlikeable but also not that deep (or at least not beyond the cliche of their archetype as to be worth spending a tremendous…
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Kind of plays out like you’re reading a book rather than watching an action movie… Finale is great, epilogue seemed unnecessary but so do a lot of scenes in this film. Soooo much filler Will be watching again and reevaluating my rating 🙂
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The only good writing in this movie was the t-Rex monologue. The masked guys ended up being complete fucking idiots because I guess you throw the door open and crawl on out when there’s a sniper trained right on you and ask the guy who killed your partner for a ride to the hospital. Nice cinematography. Gore was excessive. Relied heavily on shock value. Movie could be cut down a solid 30 minutes with how much filler they threw in here. Another mediocre Mel Gibson performance.
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I’ve finally finished S. Craig Zahler’s filmography, and I gotta say, while there are things that hold this back for me, it’s probably my favorite. I’ve never seen anyone direct violence the way he does, as if someone being shot in the head is just as important as taking a step or blinking, it happens in a flash and we’re barely given any time to breathe about what we just witnessed, no matter the character or situation. This is consistent…
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man those goggled criminals were scary tho edit: ok but for real its hard to know how to feel abt this one, like i enjoy it despite its flaws but i also can’t disagree with some of people’s criticisms about it. on one hand i think there’s a little bit of context that most ppl aren’t aware of that lends more credence to the interpretation that this is a satire of right wing beliefs, but there’s a handful of elements…
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BRUTAL. Psychological. Only gripe is its long in the tooth but dang the last phase of the film is beautiful.
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Why does everyone in this movie talk like they have a concussion and just drank a bottle of robitussin? I went in not knowing anything about the “controversy” or this director at all. Every other line we were turning to each other asking “what!?”. Unbelievably slow pace. Sooo much exposition in the dialogue with insane turns of phrase. It’s like the script was google translated from another language. The violence and quasi sexual cruelty (nude woman in the beginning, the…
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This was insane. Very bad. not in the so bad it’s good way. Entire bank sequence felt like a lynch movie. This is like a guy with a concussion trying to write a tarantino movie
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Zahler #2. Still enjoy the slow burn, though not as much as Bone Tomahawk where it really jelled with the time period. Great cast with an deliciously bizarre highlight – Fred Melamed as the bank manager. The pieces all feel poised to deliver something really special… but never really transcend the genre. Solid and strange but ultimately I don’t think Zahler has a unique POV here which holds it back from the company of movies it seems to be reaching for.
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What a piece of shit movie
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Best screenplay written by an alien pretending to be a human and a chatbot that just learned about racism.
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My favorite part of Zahler movies is that he cuts away from the gore because I’m squeamish. Can’t wait to watch bone tomahawk next; I’ve heard it’s a campy western!
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Dreadful.
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First time in a while where I don’t really know how I truly feel about a movie. Quite the bleak and provocative exploitation movie, that I feel like doesn’t have much respect for the political themes that it’s tip toeing around. While I do agree that this movie at heart isn’t necessarily right wing, the way it handles itself when progressing the plot and motives of the main two cops can seem very odd. Still don’t know how to fully express my feelings towards the movie, but I’ll probably rewatch and give my full thoughts on this.
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Dragged Across Concrete left me feeling a bit conflicted. On one hand, it’s an engaging crime thriller with strong performances and an uncompromising tone. On the other, there are several aspects that kept it from becoming something truly great. My biggest issue is the runtime. At two hours and forty minutes, I expected something closer to an epic crime saga. Instead, the story often feels as though it’s stretching relatively straightforward material far beyond what it can sustain. I never…
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A contrived, overly and unnecessarily MAGA-coded slow singe. It wouldn’t be fair to call it a slow burn. It was just slow for the sake of being slow and felt like a real overnight stakeout, as in mostly boring, with a few exchanges of florid violence and stereotypes. Probably would be more enjoyable at 2x speed and with lots of coffee and donuts. That said, I still liked it for some reason. It’s just nowhere near as good as Bone…
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Just my speed It’s been some years , beyond fest ‘18 w Zahler and co Q&A to be exact since I’ve seen this. Unable to look away
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God damn second half had me locked in
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Some good ol boomer MAGA slop. Cops are actually underpaid and women should stay home with their babies. Mel Gibson the Kanye of film idc.
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Ddarkwebstcktips 8 月 5, 2026
Maybe this is vacuous bc every cop-crime-process film owes a debt to Melville, but, outside of Mann, this feels like the closest contemporary example we have. Both in form and in its political content. And, come to think of it, in casting. Much debated is the heavy-handed Don Johnson scene – is it Truth or Troll? It elevates its own kayfabe: Gibson can only politick insofar as he plays the wounded male and Johnson matches this relationship, performing the traditional…
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mankind stays greedy… this movie is maybe one of the most haunting pieces of media i’ve ever seen. it sticks in my brain in a way i don’t really want it to….god…you should watch it tho
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There’s that part near the end with Tory Kittles dragging Mel Gibson’s car with his own, both playing Butch Tavares’ “Don’t Close the Drive-In” on the radio (basically an excuse to further showcase this movie’s great original music), which just might be one of my favorite moments in recent memory. Weirdly enough, I find myself slightly comparing it to the train ride in Spirited Away, where one takes a second to really feel the world and atmosphere that’s been created.…
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Yes, a film starring massive fuckwits, playing dangerous fuckwits, why bother? Well, I like watching movies. The two top billed actors is what has put me off watching this for so long. It’s a slow burn crime drama, with bursts of ultraviolence (those poor bags of chips). Two cops that refuse to play nice when arresting people, are suspended and follow a big time criminal, chasing a big pay day so they don’tneed to be cops anymore. This has some…
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Atípico policial, construido a base de largos diálogos, con personajes cuya procesión va por dentro e historias paralelas que aparentemente no tienen conexión, pero que el director hábilmente une para lograr el clímax de la película. Muy buena
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Another masterpiece what a movie
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95 You could spend hours i feel dissecting out of the criminals who is the most morally fair which is part of the intrigue to such a bizarrely fascinating film. No matter how much Zahler states that his work is not political, he at least could acknowledge the fact that regardless of intentionality the film can certainly be seen as political. I honestly think this can be seen as a left-leaning film that displays that violence has no connection to the color of your skin and that greed can corrupt any regardless of how you feel about violence or political issues in America.
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Two hours of people talking in cars has absolutely no right to be this gripping. Dragged Across Concrete is deliberately slow, but every conversation feels like it’s tightening a screw. When the violence finally arrives, it’s sudden, brutal, and impossible to shrug off. Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn make a strangely compelling duo, carrying a film that’s less interested in action than the compromises people make when they’re desperate. Not an easy watch, but an absorbing one.
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Robert Bresson teve um filho maravilhoso com o Michael Mann❤️
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Massive eye rolling as this movie tries to get me to sympathize with not only Gibson’s character but also real life Mel, yet I found it impossible to turn off. Every single character is fleshed out (no pun intended) in some way making the lengthy runtime feel justified and not purely indulgent. SCZ’s filmmaking expertise is showcased and despite this cruel bloodbath’s unrelenting absence of any real compassion whatsoever, he knows his way around story, lens, character and tension. I hate this movie. I also loved this movie 😬
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Glemte å logge, tror det var ish riktig dato. Ikke noe særlig
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Jennifer Carpenter. I only watched it for Jennifer Carpenter, I don’t give a damn about the plot.
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Peak.
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Me encanta el estilo de este director que, con solo tres películas, se alza como uno de los nombres más particulares del panorama actual. Aquí vuelve a sus señas de identidad, violencia descarnada, pausa y diálogos desnudos. Brutal.
- Synopsis
- Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
- Director
- S. Craig Zahler
- Writer
- S. Craig Zahler
- Studio
- Cinestate, Look to the Sky Films, Unified Pictures, Realmbuilders Productions
- Country
- Canada, UK, USA
- Language
- English, Spanish
- Year
- 2018
- Runtime
- 159 mins
- Italy03 Sep 2018
- USA09 Oct 2018
- UK16 Oct 2018
- Australia22 Nov 2018
- UK22 Feb 2019
- Belgium19 Apr 2019
- France25 Sep 2019
- Netherlands21 Feb 2019
- Greece21 Mar 2019
- USA22 Mar 2019
- Singapore28 Mar 2019
- Estonia29 Mar 2019
- United Arab Emirates11 Apr 2019
- Romania12 Apr 2019
- Russia18 Apr 2019
- UK19 Apr 2019
- Croatia09 May 2019
- Turkey10 May 2019
- Portugal20 Jun 2019
- Philippines17 Jul 2019
- South Korea01 Aug 2019
- Australia29 Aug 2019
- Indonesia13 Sep 2019
- Japan28 Aug 2020
- USA22 Mar 2019
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