08 Apr 2020 03:59:25
Dragged Across Concrete

Two detectives' action was leaked to the media. It was deemed as using excessive force, and thus suspended. One of them (Mel Gibson), with the pressure by his family' condition, decided that he needs to do one thing against the law to get what he think he deserves to get. He and his partner (Vince Vaughn) targetted a non local criminal for them to rob, who just came into town, and they thought that this guy is a drug dealer. They were wrong.

I actually don't know how to review this film, but I forced myself to, because I really wanted to recommend this film to you guys.

The film is unique; it was slow, but you can feel the tense. The story revolving these two detectives were quite saddening too, and when you thought that something good might come out, it actually didn't. There was this one really nice humour, and actually you can only tell that it's a humour only after awhile, not during it first came out. i'm not going to tell you what was the joke, but you really really have to watch it to know what I meant here. So this is one of the thing that actually make this film quite "painful", the build-up and its darkness, but they didn't for once make me want to change the channel but to stick with it and watch it until the end.

I am not going to touch too much on the ending, but I think you can guess that this kind of film usually comes with a really good surprise ending. It's not entirely happy ending fairy tale kind of ending, but I'm totally satisfied with it.

A really great film, a hidden gem I would say. I highly recommend this to you guys. Gibson and Vaughn in this were both awesome!


1.) 10 Apr 2020
10 Apr 2020 06:59:58
You might like brawl in cell block 99 from the same director as well. His movies are more on the violent side and i had mixed feelings about the movie. Vince vaughn certainly impressed me. Dragged across concrete has been on my watchlist for a while and mel gibson should fit in well in these type of movies.


2.) 12 Apr 2020
12 Apr 2020 13:15:18
Agree, brawl in cell block 99 is one of the best original films I've seen for a while.
Really want to watch dragged across concrete.