Director Paul Schrader
Starring Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe, Christopher Matthew Cook
Rated R
Score 4/6

A crew of ex-cons are hired by a Cleveland mafioso to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster.

For those of you who are wondering Dog Eat Dog is based on a 1995 novel of the same name by Edward Bunker.

I really don’t think that I will be able to stop watching movies starring Nicholas Cage. I completely understand who frustrating his acting choices can be, watching a moving starring cage is pretty much the cinematic equivalent of eating from a box of assorted chocolates without the little menu card. You can never really be completely sure what you’re going to get.
I don’t remember seeing any preview for this at the cinema or for that matter on other DVDs before I came across this one and yes at times that can be a bad sign. I’m not overly familiar with director Paul Schrader’s work but considering there are some gaps in my film education it really doesn’t surprise me that I am. Scharder delivered something that on the surface was a garden variety mobster movie and if it had of stayed like that for the entire movie I probably would have been satisfied with just that. But in the final act it took this left turn into something that was a little absurd, maybe a little dark and left me thinking.