Dog Eat Dog

Name: Dog Eat Dog
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: November 4, 2016
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 53

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RLJ Entertainment | Release Date: November 4, 2016 | Not Rated

Summary: Ex-cons Troy (Nicolas Cage), Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the trio find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is literally aEx-cons Troy (Nicolas Cage), Mad Dog (Willem Dafoe) and Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) are hired by an eccentric mob boss to kidnap a baby for a large ransom. When the abduction goes awry, the trio find themselves on the run from the mob and the cops. Vowing to stay out of prison at all costs, getting away with the crime is literally a matter of life and death. … Expand

Director: Paul Schrader

Genre(s): Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 93 min

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Todd McCarthy

May 21, 2016

The film positively swills in its disreputability and all-around low-budgetness; sporting a healthy disregard for respectability, Schrader has just gone for it here with a highly focused recklessness that he turns to his creative advantage. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Nov 10, 2016

Dog Eat Dog occasionally positions itself as social commentary, but it’s mainly a bloody, trippy, bare-fanged pulp thriller featuring terrifically entertaining performances from old dogs Cage and Dafoe. Read full review

Gary Goldstein

Nov 7, 2016

Although it’s an often repellant, uneven film that, in the end, doesn’t amount to a whole lot, there’s something thrilling and a bit liberating about the anarchic vibe that permeates this stylized walk on the wild side. Read full review

Matt Donato

Nov 3, 2016

Dog Eat Dog is all bark and no bite, playing around in a sandbox of vulgarity with little rhyme or reason. Read full review

The Playlist Jessica Kiang

May 22, 2016

Even within Schrader’s own back catalogue, Dog Eat Dog feels like a lukewarm retread of elements he has achieved, as a writer and director, much better before. It’s just that here they’re mashed together gracelessly, with a kind of bullying undercurrent, as though designed to get a rise out of you, just so it can deliver two for flinching. Read full review

Robert Abele

Nov 4, 2016

There are times you even wonder if Cage and Dafoe should have switched roles. But the true identity swap tragedy is within Schrader, the filmmaker having substituted his trademarked thoughtful approach to unacceptable men with a cheaper, imitative brand of cartoony bleakness. Read full review

Dan Gunderman

Nov 3, 2016

Movie fans might be better off watching a dog actually munch on another dog. Paul Schrader's latest action drama is downright awful. Read full review

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russellmetty

Nov 5, 2016

Batsh*t crazy and massively entertaining.
From the opening scene you have to buckle up.
Sharply written and directed with no fear whatsoever.
Does for Cleveland what The Friends of Eddie Coyle did for Boston.

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lvmnz

Apr 25, 2017

I give it the highest mixed. This is a well-shot, stylish film that is seemingly both conscious of its own absurdity as well as completely devoid of any coherence, even in subtext. As my friend said, it's sort of a take on Pulp Fiction. I would add that its purpose seems to be to troll theI give it the highest mixed. This is a well-shot, stylish film that is seemingly both conscious of its own absurdity as well as completely devoid of any coherence, even in subtext. As my friend said, it's sort of a take on Pulp Fiction. I would add that its purpose seems to be to troll the viewer. The soundtrack was brilliant.… Expand

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Ralfbergs

Feb 18, 2017

Even though this movie starts out interesting and has some premise in it that you think it might be somewhat decent or at least a good b-movie type, in the end it ends up just dumb and you think why did you waste your time watching it.

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