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- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 1 m
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 1 m
Summary After a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he ...
Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh
Written By: Ric Roman Waugh
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 1 m
- 2017
- R
- Saban Films
- 2 h 1 m
Shot Caller
59
7.4
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Summary After a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he ...
Directed By: Ric Roman Waugh
Written By: Ric Roman Waugh
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
59
70% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
20% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
10% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Unflinchingly written and directed by Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, it’s too unnerving to recommend to the squeamish, but for anyone curious enough to find out what really happens to turn decent people into savages in the bedlam of the American prison system, this is one for the must-see list.
Shot Caller is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
25% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 65 User Ratings
7.4
71% Positive
46 Ratings
46 Ratings
25% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Shot Caller may cover little new ground but navigates familiar terrain with considerable skill.
Despite being sold and marketed as a thriller, the most interesting aspects of Shot Caller are the dramatic ones.
Despite its unabashed fondness for clichés and tired tropes, Shot Caller mostly succeeds in its aims because of Waugh’s sober, matter-of-fact approach to the material.
It always feels like an exercise instead of an examination, a flow chart of bad decisions and explosive violence that may not glorify the poisonous nature of hard time but rarely skims below the surface of what it means to break bad.
Shot Caller is an overlong brutally clumsy attempt to have it both ways.
Great movie. Would be a 10 compared to the garbage being churned out of Hollywood today with their woke diverse garbage. Great acting, believable and logical storyline (more than can be said for today's films) it offers a great insight into how institutionalization can lead to more criminals and the problem with our current system.
Don't trust the critic score, this movie is a great watch
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surprisingly good. too graphic at times, but still a fairly good movie. Acting was on point, and I didn't realize until a flashback scene that the main character was from GOT
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Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jon Bernthal star in this new thriller crime movie. With all the trailers I was actually stoked to watch this. Being a huge Game of Thrones fan and for it just looking cool. But does it actually deliver? Short answer yes. I did feel it did a good enough job showing the horrors inside prison can be. It was very interesting seeing a family man in the beginning transform into this criminal, and that's where I think the movie shines. The movie does start off with him being out and keeping cutting back to his time in jail. For the most part it was utilized fine, but in the beginning it makes absolute no sense whats going on since you are being thrown right away in the middle of the movie. But as the movie starts to unfold it becomes clearer and clearer. I just wish it was easier to follow in the first 20 minutes. The acting was incredibly strong from everyone and most definitely Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. I did think the first 30 minutes could of been improved and handled better, but the last hour and 30 was entertaining, which means the film could of been cut down by 20 minutes. Overall I think most people will find this enjoyable and entertaining.
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