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Bullet Head

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Bulgaria, United States · 2017
Rated R · 1h 33m
Director Paul Solet
Starring Adrien Brody, Antonio Banderas, John Malkovich, Rory Culkin
Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller

On the run from the law after their latest heist goes wrong, three career criminals find themselves trapped in a warehouse. Little do they know that it’s home to vicious attack dogs. Unable to flee, they recount a series of narratives exploring the love, fear, and conditioning that brought them there.

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Time Out by

Solet has turned out a very slick product and handles some of the action with brio, particularly a chase-across-buses set piece. But with too little freshness for crime-drama devotees, too many furry corpses for animal lovers and a thoroughly predictable wrap-up, Bullet Head ultimately screws the pooch.

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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg

Is Bullet Head good? In truth, it’s drab, derivative and more than slightly silly, but it’s tough to dislike like a movie that proceeds as if the 1990s cycle of Quentin Tarantino knockoffs never ended and that uses the prospect of gory canine violence in service of loud and persistent pro-dog cheerleading.

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Variety by Dennis Harvey

The result is a film that somehow manages to be fairly watchable, yet nonetheless really needed intervention from the conceptual stage onward.

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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein

As a perilous dog-and-mouse game ensues, Solet packs his script with tension, dimension and several vivid flashbacks recalling the characters’ seminal encounters with dogs. Cool camerawork too.

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Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

Despite featuring emotionally static characters who undergo no personal development and having the structure of basic robbery-and-chase setup, Bullet Head is the kind of action film that throws mindlessness to the dogs.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Richard Roeper

Writer-director Paul Solet serves up some intricately choreographed and creative action sequences and some gruesomely realistic violence.... Mostly, though, Bullet Head is about the characters and the crackling dialogue, and the first-rate actors giving just the right spin to their lines.

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

It’s the players and their points of view that let Bullet Head score something close to a bulls-eye, even if the shot is fired at easy, close range.

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Village Voice by Simon Abrams

A gonzo ten-minute standoff between Adrien Brody and a man-eating pitbull single-handedly justifies the existence of the otherwise uninspired heist thriller Bullet Head.

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