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MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

stone_em THIS IS MY VERY FIRST REVIEW!! I just felt the urge to write one for this movie. I was never a big Cage fan and I don't think he's a very good actor but i dig him.... kinda like Keanu Reeves or Christopher Lambert, all kinda emotionless shitty actors but very enjoyable in certain types of films. I don't know what people expect from this movie (i'ts not supposed to be serious) but if you looking for a DARK COMEDY that packs a punch. Don't miss out on this one! Definintely worth watching!!PS: reviews like "I am a fan of Nicholas Cage"... "is your time over?" Are you serious?! Cage made tons of crappy movies but this one is none of them

Michael Ledo The film is inspired by Tarantino. It opens with a killing and "The Whistle Tune" from "Kill Bill." Three guys recently get out of prison. Troy (Nicolas Cage) was the most recent to get out and is the "brains" in the group. Mad Dog (William Dafoe) has psychotic tendencies and only Troy tolerates him as he helped him in prison. Diesel (Christopher Matthew Cook) is the muscle. They are hired to do various crimes for the head of the Cleveland Mafia. They hope to score one last task and go off to Hawaii.The film opened with a lot of promise, but wanes after the first task. It should of had a second task, before the final one which was too predictable. Dafoe gives us a good performance with Cage being the weak link. This wasn't his film. I thought the ending was anti-climatic.Guide: F-word, sex, stripper nudity

neil-43355 I should have known better - Nicholas cage is a pretty weak actor (and I'm being kind) who's been lucky enough to be in a couple of half decent action movies - the rest of his films are complete rubbish and this is no exception. It ain't even going to bother wasting anymore time reviewing this - this dog has rabies, steer well clear.

eddie_baggins It's likely that we'll never fully understand just what happened to famed writer/director Paul Schrader and his once highly promising career.The writer of Raging Bull and Taxi Driver at one time seemed like a potential once in a generation type of voice, those films clearly attest to that, but since the glory days of the late 70's and 80's, Schrader has since disappeared into being a writer and a director of such forgettable oddities as The Walker and The Canyons, that now Schrader is but a ghost of his former self, especially after his previous film The Dying of the Light ended up being the garbage that it was.Obviously not one to retire wondering, Schrader however has once more teamed up with his Dying of the Light leading man Nicolas Cage and recruited Willem Dafoe along for the ride with his bizarre yet somehow forgettable adaptation of Edward Bunker's book, Dog Eat Dog.Starting out in a fashion that will likely have many brows raised and jaws hanging open, Dog Eat Dog is a real oddball type of a film with sprinklings of outlandish and over the top violence, reprehensible characters and a few select zingers that showcase Schrader still does have power with words when he sets his mind to it.Set around a recently released trio criminals who answer to Nicolas Cage's slightly more intellectual Troy, this group which includes Dafoe's drug addled Mad Dog and Christopher Cook's heavy hitting lug Diesel find themselves over petty crime and looking to score big which ends up with a scenario where Paul Schrader's (please let us never see him act on screen again) Greek offers them a job of babynapping to make a big score.It seems as though Cage loves a good babynapping (reliving his Raising Arizona days) but Dog Eat Dog doesn't ever really seem comfortable in what it is. Some form of Americanised version of a UK classic like Snatch or a poor man's Quentin Tarantino crime yarn, I'm not quite sure and while Dog Eat Dog has a few moments of genuine shock (an attack on a police women springs to mind and will likely be remembered along the same lines as Cage's famous "punching" scene in the Wicker Man remake) and a Willem Dafoe turn that deserved a much better movie, Schrader still seems to be shooting blanks in the story telling department where he used to be shooting heavy hitting bullets.There may just be a life for Dog Eat Dog in the cult movie dominion and midnight screening madness and while this is a step up from the dire Dying of the Light, Dog Eat Dog is by no means the work we know Schrader is capable of delivering; at least once upon a time long ago.2 jackets out of 5