Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Directed by Paul Schrader
Carved from a lifetime of experience that runs the gamut from incarceration to liberation, Dog Eat Dog is the story of three men who are all out of prison and now have the task of adapting themselves to civilian life.
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Naturally, all of this is shot through a pungent fuchsia filter and riddled with so many pop-up graphics that it almost feels like a direct homage to “Natural Born Killers” or any of the other queasy, hyper-active crime stories that blew through the mid-’90s like a heatwave.
The opening sequence has the mad, hallucinogenic look of a bonus scene from "Natural Born Killers."
The scene is played for sicko laughs, with some of the garish instability of that Rodney Dangerfield sequence in Natural Born Killers and a similar, scattergun approach to social satire.
From the opening scene, which is reminiscent of Natural Born Killers in its delirious violence, this is a film that hurtles forward with a manic, unflagging energy and a complete disregard for the rules of storytelling or good taste.
Had the experiment worked, “ Dog Eat Dog ” might have been the next “Natural Born Killers” — a cracked-out postmodern romp whose delinquent antiheroes see themselves as the stars of the ultimate bandits-on-the-run movie.
Sometimes it looks like outtakes from a “Natural Born Killers” ripoff that never happened.