Since it was screened in some festivals last year it became one of the titles that if you had the honor to see it must be part of your Top10 movies of the year. It was present at Venice Film Festival in Italy, Beyond Fest in the USA, London Film Festival in the UK, Monster Fest in Australia and Sitges Film Festival in Catalunya, where we had the luck to attend to the screening [you can read our review here]. After only 2 movies as a writer and director, S. Craig Zahler has gained the halo of one of those filmmakers that if they have something new to offer you MUST see it. So after Bone Tomahawk (2015) and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (2017) now it’s the turn of Dragged Across Concrete (2018).
Despite the aggressive of the title, Dragged Across Concrete (2018) is not a super violent film. It has its moments of rawness, but overall is a great thriller, with cops and crooks, with law members gone wrong and criminals with a good soul, that serves as a masterpiece of film making, cinema at its best. It is starred by Vince Vaughn, already a classic in S. Craig Zahler’s films, this time together with the always controversial and interesting Mel Gibson; and accompanied by high class supporting actors like Jennifer Carpenter, Laurie Holden, Don Johnson, Michael Jai White, Thomas Kretschmann, Udo Kier, Tory Kittles, Liannet Borrego, Giacomo Baessato, Fred Melamed, Andrew Dunbar and Justine Warrington.
In Dragged Across Concrete (2018), two policemen, one an old-timer (Gibson), the other his volatile younger partner (Vaughn), 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.
In the upcoming months Dragged Across Concrete (2018) will start to open in several countries around the globe. This weekend in Australia, other territories must wait for a little longer. Check out your favorite theaters because this is surely one of those movies you don’t want to miss. Check out its first trailer here. Because even the trailer is fantastic.
