Dragged Across Concrete (2019)
Directed by S. Craig Zahler
Two policemen, one an old-timer, the other his volatile younger partner, find themselves suspended when a video of their strong-arm tactics becomes 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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Evoking the epic, character-driven, melancholic, detailed procedural structure and tone of Michael Mann’s Heat , the gritty urban racial dynamic of David Ayer’s End of Watch and Dark Blue (as writer) , and the central political orientation of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry, S. Craig Zahler’s massively ambitious crime drama Dragged Across Concrete is a supremely well crafted piece of genre auteurism.
I also thought about The Hateful Eight , which felt indulgent and pointless right up until Tarantino introduced the gimmick of the “Lincoln Letter,” a forged document aptly symbolizing certain counterfeit aspects of the American dream.
Evoking the epic, character-driven, melancholic, detailed procedural structure and tone of Michael Mann’s Heat , the gritty urban racial dynamic of David Ayer’s End of Watch and Dark Blue (as writer) , and the central political orientation of Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry, S. Craig Zahler’s massively ambitious crime drama Dragged Across Concrete is a supremely well crafted piece of genre auteurism.