Breakinger
A Brilliant Conflict
ThedevilChoose
When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.
StyleSk8r
At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.
pambosk
When a movie by Paul Schrader comes out, you know it will entertain and be good......so what happened to Dog Eat Dog? He did'nt write the screenplay to this one, and maybe he should have.
The film of three ex cons stealing and killing is not a film that the audeince can relate to or even feel for the characters. Hollywood loves to show realism by having actors do the coke thing. You know the scene, sitting at the table with a credit card sorting the coke out, then drawing it in thru the nose.....Been done a hundred times and its boring.
But why does the film rate a "zero"? Because of the ending scenes. Nicolas Cage's character is handcuffed to a police car and dragged around at speed. The next scene we see him hi jack a car with an elderly couple. THe director does not want to explain how he got away? Or did he think the the paying public would not notice.
Next, Cage is driving the car and a fog appears out of nowhere, and in this fog a police car appears with sirens blazing. The police had infra red see thru fog glasses. What a load of crap. All of the reviws are blaming Nicolas Cage fro his performance. The actors were all great. The producer,writer and director are to blame for this rubbish.. We are not stupid Mr. Schrader, you conned us into coming to see this movie. Shame on you all
insomniac-84355
This is legitimately one of the worst movies I've ever seen. There was no plot structure, nothing made sense, and one of the main characters Mad Dog is killed by his "friend" / work associate Diesel because Mad Dog rambles too long. I found myself saying verbally saying, "Shut Up" at my screen because of how annoying his conjecture was. It was as if the writers finally managed to squeeze in a good piece of dialogue, and then BAM, all that payoff was instantly destroyed as they have one of the thugs kill the other one. It was pointless. The writing is so bad, I spent the time updating my account just to write this out.
shaggycollins
Normally a Nicholas Cage movie is worth a look. I clicked on this through Netflix and got quite a surprise - this movie totally sucked! I gave it about an hour to get interesting, which it never did - so it got canned.The whole movie seems like a mere child running around with a camcorder, sneaking around recording people. Really quite lame.
ptanga
Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader has beaten their scores in terms of lack of quality. The movie has a very ordinary e known plot. Badly directed and poor script. Sometimes it tries to remember Tarantino's style but it fails awfully ! I have never saw so many people leaving their chairs from exhibition room during a movie. My surprise is that it was exhibited in a Art Movie Theater in São Paulo, Brazil (Reserva Cultural).
