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Dog Eat Dog (2009)

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Reviews Counted:5

Fresh:1

Rotten:4

Average Rating:4.3/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 46 mins

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Jan 8, 2009 Limited

Synopsis: Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution that's Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film, plays midnights at IFC Center Friday, January 23 and... Dog Eat Dog, a tale of double-crosses and retribution that's Colombia's official entry to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign-Language Film, plays midnights at IFC Center Friday, January 23 and Saturday, January 24.

El Orejon is an agoraphobic crime boss who lives surrounded by telescopes in a luxury high-rise apartment in the center of Cali, Colombia. When his godson is killed he asks a voodoo priestess to avenge the murder by casting a deadly spell on the shooter, Eusebio. Miles away, Victor is hired by the boss to carry out a job to collect money from a slippery pair of twins. He makes a disastrous decision to break the sacred law of the crime world and keeps the cash for himself. Under suspicion by El Orejon he hides the money in a downtown hotel room which he shares with Eusebio, where they try everything in their power to outsmart the boss and escape the underworld's thick tangle of unpredictable, dangerous alliances. As the stash of money passes from hand to hand, who will have the wits to be the last one standing?

Dog Eat Dog is the first feature from Carlos Moreno, an award-winning television and video director whose work has been featured at festivals around the world. --© IFC Films [More]

Starring: Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda

Starring: Eusebio Benitez, Oscar Borda

Director: Carlos Moreno

Director: Carlos Moreno
Screenwriter: Carlos Moreno, Alonso Torres
Studio: IFC Films

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It's not rattling the genre.

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Matthew Nestel
Matthew Nestel
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A dark crime thriller low on suspense, but at least it manages to be moderately compelling, invigorating and somewhat of a guilty pleasure, as long as you don't have a weak stomach for violence.

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01/30/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

Dog Eat Dog's choice of hyper-stylized, overexposed cinematography is ultimately more concerned with creating a mood of jittery, hell-on-earth claustrophobia than it is with forcibly exoticizing its crime-stricken Colombian setting.

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01/28/09
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine

Resembles a Tony Scott movie without any of his intelligence and cinematic invention.

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02/12/08
Robert Koehler
Robert Koehler
Variety
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With a background in television and music videos, director Carlos Moreno's feature debut is mighty shallow. Its bloodshed carries little weight; the sporadic humor is cheap and casually racist.

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01/22/09
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