SummaryEx-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 ... Read More
Directed By:Paul Schrader
Written By:Edward Bunker, Matthew Wilder
Dog Eat Dog
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53
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
53
37% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
47% Mixed
9 Reviews
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16% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
May 21, 2016
80
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.
Nov 4, 2016
75
With the bawdy and intoxicatingly batshit Dog Eat Dog, Schrader is off the leash once and for all.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.6
31% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
44% Mixed
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25% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Nov 5, 2016
10
**** 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.
Apr 25, 2017
6
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 the viewer. The soundtrack was brilliant.
May 24, 2016
67
Lacking the earlier stylistic exuberance, Dog Eat Dog loses all momentum, taking forever to come to a conclusion both foregone and deeply dissatisfying.
Nov 3, 2016
50
Dog Eat Dog is all bark and no bite, playing around in a sandbox of vulgarity with little rhyme or reason.
Nov 23, 2016
40
There’s half an argument that this schlocky lowlife caper energises its director’s visual imagination more than we’ve seen lately – hey, at least he’s trying something – but it’s not a juggling feat he can keep up all day.
May 21, 2016
40
That’s not to say Dog Eat Dog is bereft of interesting choices. Far from it, though its infrequent bursts of gonzo brilliance are all in service of such an uninteresting premise.
Nov 3, 2016
20
Movie fans might be better off watching a dog actually munch on another dog. Paul Schrader's latest action drama is downright awful.
Feb 18, 2017
3
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.
Production Company:
- ADME Studios
- Blue Budgie Films Limited
- Dark Mark Productions
- Ingenious Media
- Optimus Releasing
- Pure Dopamine
- Roxwell Films
- Shanghai Gigantic Pictures
Release Date:Nov 4, 2016
Duration:1 h 33 m
Tagline:The Best Thing Schrader has done in Decades!
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 1 Nomination
