By now we know Mel Gibson has a thing for mutilation, with anti-PC meant to enrage the snowflakes. A typical Gibson vehicle, this one is beautifully crafted, with great photography and car POV shots. There's little directorship here--that is, no vision of a whole story. We have fascinating episodes that add up to not much of a story. There are interesting characters, too, but all of them, except one, get killed off before we get to know them, even with a 2½-hour run time. That's because the pacing is slow, but miraculously without dragging--herewith an especially cruel episode of a girl who works at a bank. There are uber-nasty bad guys who need developing. The leader Vogelmann is Hans Gruber without Alan Rickman's delicious evil. I think there was even more filming, because there are some gaps that probably weren't in the screenplay by S. Criag Zahler, who also directs. One thing: Usually the MB character comes out with some redeeming heroism. Not here.
Review of Dragged Across Concrete
