The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner (Vaughn), who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics become the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.... (Full plot summary below)
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The script centers on two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner (Vaughn), who find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics become the media's cause du jour. Low on cash and with no other options, these two embittered soldiers descend into the criminal underworld to gain their just due, but instead find far more than they wanted awaiting them in the shadows.
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| Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIt’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. |
| Slant MagazineChuck BowenWith his latest, S. Craig Zahler doubles down on the best and worst elements of the pulp film. |
| IndieWireMichael NordineDragged Across Concrete may be a hard movie to love, but it’s a much harder one not to respect and even admire. |
| Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerDragged 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. |
| The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyMusic naturally plays the central role here, but the film usefully lays in historical and political details that lend it more heft and poignancy than most films of its type. |
| RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoThe result is a film that often feels like Zahler’s most assured to date. Self-indulgent? Oh yeah. A provocation? You bet. But it’s difficult to ignore the craftsmanship and performances in Dragged Across Concrete simply because you don’t like some of its darker themes or feel like it’s too long. |
| The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThis is an ugly, borderline vile piece of work. Thing is, it’s also been made with craft, wit, and a frankly exhilarating disregard for how films like this are supposed to operate, how they usually sound and move. |
| CineVueAlasdair BaymanDragged Across Concrete is a unique take on ultraviolence in an age whether the production of films is becoming increasingly polarising. Imbued with a particular stand out performance by Gibson breathes life into Zahler’s mature approach to genre filmmaking. |
| The GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a long film, but there is something so horribly compelling about its unhurried slouch towards the precipice. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeAt a whopping 158 minutes, “Concrete’s” sleek, languorous anatomy of a heist represents the filmmaker’s most extreme exercise yet in painstaking genre deceleration, sparked as ever by the tangy movie-movie vernacular of his writing, the crunchy metal-on-asphalt dynamism of his craftsmanship, and the back-from-the-brink reanimation of his stars. |
