A former boxer-turned-drug runner lands in a prison battleground after a deal gets deadly.
24 February 1947, McComas, West Virginia, USA
4 February 1977, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
12 October 1981, Trenton, New Jersey, USA
15 December 1949, Flat Creek, Missouri, USA
9 May 1968, New York City, New York, USA
17 May 1973, Englewood, Colorado, USA
7 December 1979, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
11 January 1972, Butler, Pennsylvania, USA
October 13, 2017
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.
October 06, 2017
A grade-A piece of meathead cinema.
October 05, 2017
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.
October 12, 2017
Writer-director S. Craig Zahler takes his handiwork so seriously that viewers may do the same.
October 05, 2017
What makes Brawl in Cell Block 99 work so well isn't the violence, however, but Vaughn.
October 06, 2017
... 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.
October 05, 2017
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.
October 10, 2017
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]
October 13, 2017
[T]here's really no worthwhile rationale for the movie's dichotomy of content and form.
October 03, 2017
Brawl In Cell Block 99 - and boy, does that title only tell part of the story - is a modern late night movie classic.
October 07, 2017
...the kind of vicious, no-nonsense prison drama that dads dream about when the TV is finally theirs to command.
October 05, 2017
This painstakingly paced thriller displays an intensity of purpose that makes it impossible to dismiss as well-executed trash.
