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  Shot Caller 2017

  ★★ Watched 17 Nov 2021

  Best crime thriller movie.

  Violent prison tale has blood and language.
  One of the most powerful, and interesting prison stories since American History X, Shot Caller is eye-opening and brutal. The story shines a huge spotlight on the 'how to make a criminal' nature of modern prisons.

  Waugh's film conveys the kill-or-be-killed rationalism that inexorably draws Coster-Waldau's 'Money' towards a life of violent crime.

  While the set-up is great, it's the pay-off that lets this title down, growing somewhat convoluted as we progress, and moving too far away from the endearing simplicity that helped to set the scene.

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