Brawl in Cell Block 99

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Brawl in Cell Block 99

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Yay Amazon Prime!

Vince Vaughn is a southern gentleman who gets fired from his honest job, so he has to resort to working for a friend/drug dealer. He's very good at his job, but has a very strict moral compass. He justifies his job because he needs to provide for his wife, Jennifer Carpenter. Eventually, he gets arrested. (That's not a spoiler because "Cell Block 99".) Anyway, his troubles don't end there, and being the southern gentleman he is, he cannot run from them.

Vince must have gotten sick of being typecast because this is very different from anything he's done before.

Don Johnson is also here being a tough ass warden in a jail that simply does not exist. The CIA might have lockups like one in the film, but I promise you the criminal justice system does not.

I had heard of this film, but didn't pay attention to until I saw it in Anthony Jezelnik's Twitter feed (He got press publicly destroying TJ Miller yesterday.). He called it movie of the year. I was curious if that was a joke or not. I still don't know.

I know the pacing of the film is very slow. I can assure you that you are not going to expect what you see. However, I was enthralled. Vince, and Jennifer to a lesser extent, play such different characters from what you're used to that you can't look away. I honestly think the film is more successful because this is Vince Vaughn and not Vin Diesel or someone like that. Although, Vince could have bulked up a bit more for the movie.

Here's the kicker: It also wouldn't be successful because I don't know an action star who could pull off the acting Vince does in this role. That's a sentence I just typed. I honestly wonder if this was written with someone like Tom Hardy in mind.

My biggest criticism of the film is the gore. Whoever was in charge of that aspect of the film isn't Hollywood's elite.

A slow, dramatic film with brief moments of intense violence.

I'm beginning to realize that despite its flaws I really enjoyed this movie.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99

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The gore was graphic yet...comical. It felt almost like a B movie that was cool with being a B movie.

Agree that the pacing is SLOOOOW.
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Brawl in Cell Block 99

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Almost forgot. The soundtrack sounds like magnum pi or something
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