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.
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.
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.
... 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.
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]
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.
