Dragged Across Concrete

It’s a cliché to say that they don’t make movies like this anymore — nasty, nihilistic, nicotine-stained ‘70s death trips. But thank goodness that Zahler’s doing everything in his power to prove that cliché wrong.

Dragged Across Concrete is a nihilist's morality tale. In the end, Zahler suggests, there's the dead, the innocent, and those smart enough to know that running is the only path out; and even then, there's a lot of innocence on that pile of corpses.

Dragged Across Concrete has been made with enough skill and moody, meticulous craftsmanship — another Zahler signature — to earn its own measure of tolerance, or at least some closer scrutiny.

As well-constructed, unique, hardboiled and brutal as Zahler’s prior films, but this one leaves a less welcome bad taste in your mouth, thanks to its repugnant heroes and racial stereotypes. Impossible to dismiss, but hard to warm to.

Anyone expecting a progression in Zahler’s work may be disappointed, as the amusingly mannered dialogue starts to feel self-conscious and forced, as does the fatalism.

The insanely self-indulgent running time of two hours and 40 minutes and the tendency to undercut tension with fussy dialogue that continually draws attention to its cleverness make Zahler’s third feature a lot less fun than it seems to think it is.

S. Craig Zahler's controversial movie about a pair of racist cops gone rogue has more bark than bite—and that’s telling.

Great long and stretched movie, potrays realistic and brutal situations, funny and great performances, itter masterpiece, the director is a god

Did Zahler work as a butcher before ?!! based on his previous movie "Bone Tomahawk", he tends to show bodies explosions and guts, and here in this movie is same but different time & story. Also he likes to make unexpected ending, you couldn't guess the end with Zahler and that's cool but sometimes he made it so complicated which makes you feel confused. By the way, the movie was good but not perfect, i like the funny conversations between Mel & Vince, it gives the movie sense of humor which keep you attractive to the movie. In contrast, when i watched the killing scenes, i felt like am watching "Scary Movie", i didn't feel it was an action or crime movie, i think this back to the directing of these scenes, i was hoping to see more serious action and crime.

Brett (Mel Gibson) and Anthony (Vince Vaughan), two hard and gritty police detectives get suspended when a video of their unconventional methods appears all over the internet. Short on cash and fed up with their treatment for doing their job they take an opportunity to earn some extra money and end up involved in the criminal underworld in order to get what they feel they deserve. I really liked the idea for this film I just wasn’t happy with the execution. The pacing was much too slow. I wanted the tension to build the whole time and although there was a lot I liked about this film I just didn’t feel like it came together. It really felt like it wanted to take on more issues and subplots so perhaps a mini-series would have suited this story better. I just couldn’t get invested in the story because every time I did something else happened that just killed the atmosphere. It also isn’t afraid to hold back on the violence without being uber-violent for the sake of it. Another issue that I couldn’t get over was the fact that the sound effects were cranked up to one hundred. At one point Vince Vaughan eating a sandwich for what felt like an eternity was driving me absolutely insane, I just wanted to run out of the screen and not come back. And yes I understand why this was happening, two detectives on a stake out, they’re going to be getting on each other’s nerves and we’re supposed to feel this too but it was pushing me over the edge. Whether these extra loud sound effects was done on purpose to create a more gritty feel to it or it was a genuine mistake, either way it wasn’t working for me, it started off quite funny but quickly moved to annoying and eventually infuriating. The story and the acting was there, Gibson and Vaughan make a convincing pair though I really found it hard to empathize with their characters so I really wasn’t rooting for anyone in this film, honestly I was glad when it finally ended. If this is your first time with Director S. Craig Zahler then I wouldn’t recommend you start with Dragged Across Concrete, perhaps try Brawl in Cellblock 99 and go from there. Recommended for fans of the director’s previous films.

so slow, and very gross at points! I don't understand why it got such a good rating!!!

Overall this movie was trash. Some decent acting with a decent plot. I’m ok with a slow burn movie but this was overkill. Unlike others i don’t think it needed an hour cut from the run time but easily 30 minutes too long. And the editing was probably the worst i have ever seen. Not sure if anyone else noticed some of the horrible mistakes but i’ll bring up just one. Towards the end of the movie when the open up the garage you can clearly see it’s a Chevy Tahoe that is in the garage........when they cut to the next part of the scene where they load the back of the SUV they are loading a Dodge Durango ( just look at the taillights) and then when they hook the cop car up to be towed it’s clearly a Tahoe **** the hell missed that in editing this movie? I really wanted to turn this movie off after an hour and a half but was too far invested and had to see it through. Very rarely do i feel a movie was a waste of my time but this one was. I felt so strongly enough i am actually commenting on here for the first time.