Film Illiterate, wherein the proprietor records movies seen, and sporadic progress through assorted lists of the "best". Originally started after regretfully renting something forgettable for the third time. I've forgotten what, but never again! A tedious endeavour since 2005. Hello. 🙂
Odd neo-exploitation from S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk) about Bradley Thomas (Vince Vaughn), a drug courier, who gets sent to prison and commits great violence. He's a sort of Jack Reacher antihero: indomitable, invincible, perfectly happy to kill people so long as it fits his own moral code.
Violence is realistic in that it's gorey and unpleasant; there are multiple sequences of face-down men having their skulls stomped into concrete, limbs snapped etc.
I say "neo-exploitation" because this violence appears to be the point of the exercise. Vaughn does stoic well, but lack of emotion means that Thomas has all the outward personality of a sack of potatoes. The format does not allow for exploration of any interior life.
The result is that, while it's very well made, there's very little appeal beyond seeing people get torn apart. The plot, such as it is, is good at propelling Thomas between assaults, but there's nothing at the destination other than more violence.