Zahler wrote the screenplay prior to Bone Tomahawk (2015). By mid August 2016, Vince Vaughn, Jennifer Carpenter, Don Johnson, Udo Kier, and Marc Blucas were cast. Vaughn put on fifteen pounds of muscle and trained as a boxer for three months prior to filming. He stated that this made the fight choreography much easier to learn. At the same time, principal photography commenced, and wrapped in mid October, Filming took place in New York City.
The film stars Vaughn, Carpenter, Johnson, Kier, and Blucas. The cast is outstanding, starting with Vaughn as Bradley Thomas, the former boxer who returns to the life of crime. The cast makes its characters shine through a smart script, staying away from the traditional and often used formula.
For a hundred and thirty-two minutes or so, Brawl in Cell Block 99 plays out as a clever and truly enjoyable crime drama and then the film turns all kinds of nasty. The film finds its gold in the razor-sharp screenwriting and direction of Zahler, honing ace performances all-around. Zahler's film is never arduous and sports a completely fine-tuned package of superb visuals and increasingly ominous score. It doesn't so much revise the crime dramas as bifurcates it with a genre mash of dark, gruesome and bloody originality. What's really intriguing and commendable about the film is that it has big ambitions that it sticks with all the way through. However, violence aside the humour's wonderfully thick and dark like molasses will have you chuckling throughout. The characters are well drawn including the female character which is a welcome trend in modern crime dramas. What gives Zahler's brutal, bloody, and just plain bizarre film a lot of its oomph is the dialogue, by turns lyrical, absurd, odd, and inventive. Like many esteemed classics of the genre, it is an exploitation movie at heart, but has the courage of its convictions to treat its material as a gory grindhouse feature, albeit one made with love and effort. However, if you're a fan of genre cinema or in the mood for something different then try catch it in cinemas. There'll be few visceral and awe moments like it on the big screen this year. The film makes its characters shine through a smart script, staying away from the traditional and often used formula.
For a hundred and thirty-two minutes or so, Brawl in Cell Block 99 plays out as a clever and truly enjoyable crime drama and then the film turns all kinds of nasty. The film finds its gold in the razor-sharp screenwriting and direction of Zahler, honing ace performances all-around. Zahler's film is never arduous and sports a completely fine-tuned package of superb visuals and increasingly ominous score. It doesn't so much revise the crime dramas as bifurcates it with a genre mash of dark, gruesome and bloody originality. What's really intriguing and commendable about the film is that it has big ambitions that it sticks with all the way through. However, violence aside the humour's wonderfully thick and dark like molasses will have you chuckling throughout. The characters are well drawn including the female character which is a welcome trend in modern crime dramas. What gives Zahler's brutal, bloody, and just plain bizarre film a lot of its oomph is the dialogue, by turns lyrical, absurd, odd, and inventive. Like many esteemed classics of the genre, it is an exploitation movie at heart, but has the courage of its convictions to treat its material as a gory grindhouse feature, albeit one made with love and effort. However, if you're a fan of genre cinema or in the mood for something different then try catch it in cinemas. There'll be few visceral and awe moments like it on the big screen this year. The film makes its characters shine through a smart script, staying away from the traditional and often used formula.
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