Brawl in Cell Block 99
A one-time boxer named Bradley loses his activity as an auto technician, and his grieved marriage is going to terminate. At this junction in his life, he feels that he has no preferable choice over to work for an old mate as a drug dispatcher. This enhances his condition until the loathsome day that he winds up in a gunfight.
13 May 1956, New York City, New York, USA
10 September 1954, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
17 May 1973, Englewood, Colorado, USA
15 December 1949, Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
28 March 1970, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
15 August 1953, Brockton, Massachusetts, USA
28 June 1982, New York City, New York, USA
October 06, 2017
... plenty of testosterone-fueled brutality within a textured if self-indulgent revenge saga that employs an effectively gritty throwback visual style amid its narrative meandering.
October 05, 2017
The fight scenes, many of which are one-shots, unfold with a striking bluntness, from Vaughn's careful movements to the thudding sound effects accompanying each hit.
October 03, 2017
Brawl In Cell Block 99 - and boy, does that title only tell part of the story - is a modern late night movie classic.
October 13, 2017
[T]here's really no worthwhile rationale for the movie's dichotomy of content and form.
October 05, 2017
If it's been a while since you've felt the cold blast and hard crunch of midnight-movie meanness, Zahler's shaping up to be your guy - the one selling illicit thrills out of the trunk of a well-restored, vinyl-topped LTD.
October 13, 2017
With every clenched fist, shattered jaw, and stomped cranium in S. Craig Zahler's gruesomely awesome Brawl in Cell Block 99, we venture further away from the Vince Vaughn we used to know.
October 05, 2017
What makes Brawl in Cell Block 99 work so well isn't the violence, however, but Vaughn.
October 07, 2017
...the kind of vicious, no-nonsense prison drama that dads dream about when the TV is finally theirs to command.
October 10, 2017
This film reveals that Craig Zahler not only has an unbroken aesthetic of ultra-violence, but as a scriptwriter has a hand for rhythm and devastating dialogue. [Full Review in Spanish]
October 06, 2017
A grade-A piece of meathead cinema.
October 05, 2017
This painstakingly paced thriller displays an intensity of purpose that makes it impossible to dismiss as well-executed trash.
October 12, 2017
Writer-director S. Craig Zahler takes his handiwork so seriously that viewers may do the same.
