Den of Geek | ‘Brawl In Cell Block 99’ Review

Den of Geek

There's an argument that crops up – and I generally side with it – when talking about violence in films. And that's that the unrealistic way it's portrayed – be it a brick being thrown at someone in Home Alone 2 or a bullet being sprayed in a Marvel film – creates an unrealistic perception as to the damage real-life violence can do. That if you're going to show a bullet hitting someone, show just what it can do. I'm still haunted, for instance, by the damage that one solitary bullet does in John Singleton's Boyz N The Hood, some 25 years after I first watched it.