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A sinister and fascinating masterpiece

posted 16 years ago by derjo201
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Oh, I read a lot before I saw this movie so I was prepared for a dark and brutal roller coaster ride. But this movie is much more. So sinister and cruel that I was reminded to Alfred Cheung's "On the run" (1988). but "Dog bite Dog" is so superelevated that it cannot be seen as a usual crime story. It's like a parable showing mankind standing on the abyss of humanity and at the end of all hope.

Filmed in beautiful but pessimistic pictures the movie hypnotizes the audience and takes it to a world we could reach some day. Some do not like the end but I think it is brilliant. The director enhances the battle of those two man in a way as shocking as absurd. A surreal trip with the most unsettling "happy end" I've ever seen. To me "Dog bite Dog" is the most ambitious b-movie for years.

[–] Doctor_Fu_Manchu 16 years ago

Couldn't have said it better, I have no idea why it got such bad reviews.

"Be it a rock or a grain of sand, in water they sink as the same." Lee Woo-jin (Oldboy)

[–] PaxBillton 15 years ago

I picked it up in a bargain bin as a Double DVD pack, and it was the other, unrelated movie I was interested in, but I got to say Dog Bite Dog was an awesome surprise.

For some reason the camera has a crappy ghosting effect, so I nearly turned it off 5min in due to annoyance, but man am I glad I stuck with it. Apart from Danny the Dog, I don't think I've seen a movie like this in ages. It's unsettling yet fascinating. Like watching a train wreck.

Great acting from the villain-type guy too

[–] imwithstupid_35 15 years ago

Amazing move. I wouldn''t call it a B movie either.

I didn't like the change in shift to Cambodia and founf it somewhat unecesarry. Greta movie though.