Shot Caller

2017

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Altitude Film Entertainment | Release Date: August 18, 2017 | R

Starring: Benjamin Bratt, Emory Cohen, Evan Jones, Holt McCallany, Jeffrey Donovan, Jessy Schram, Jon Bernthal, Juan Pablo Raba, Lake Bell, Max Greenfield, Michael Landes, Nikolaj Coster Waldau, Omari Hardwick

Summary: After a DUI sends him down the rabbit hole of the American prison system, successful businessman Jacob Harlon (Nicolaj Coster-Waldau) is transformed into Money, a stoic, ruthless prison gangster. As he navigates the brutality of his new home, adapting to its violent codes of ethics and rites of passage that will ensure his survival, he… Expand

Director: Ric Roman Waugh

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Rating: R

Runtime: 121 min

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Rex Reed

Aug 18, 2017

Unflinchingly written and directed by Austin, Texas-based filmmaker Ric Roman Waugh, it’s too unnerving to recommend to the squeamish, but for anyone curious enough to find out what really happens to turn decent people into savages in the bedlam of the American prison system, this is one for the must-see list. Read full review

Pete Vonder Haar

Aug 15, 2017

Shot Caller is Coster-Waldau’s show, and he’s up to the task. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Aug 18, 2017

It’s a genre movie, to be sure, but there’s an impressive sense of authenticity — in the language, the locations and the overall texture —that goes a long way to sell the scenario. Read full review

RogerEbert.comVikram Murthi

Aug 18, 2017

Despite its unabashed fondness for clichés and tired tropes, Shot Caller mostly succeeds in its aims because of Waugh’s sober, matter-of-fact approach to the material. Read full review

James Berardinelli

Aug 24, 2017

Despite being sold and marketed as a thriller, the most interesting aspects of Shot Caller are the dramatic ones. Read full review

Robert Abele

Aug 17, 2017

It always feels like an exercise instead of an examination, a flow chart of bad decisions and explosive violence that may not glorify the poisonous nature of hard time but rarely skims below the surface of what it means to break bad. Read full review

Movie NationRoger Moore

Jul 24, 2017

Shot Caller is an overlong brutally clumsy attempt to have it both ways. Read full review

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gematric

Sep 6, 2017

I enjoyed that movie as a thirsty for quality person, and it satisfied me all the way up and more. I actually did pin in my head the name of the brilliant director of this movie.
The really best of Nikolaj Coster Waldau works,also.

brindle88

Aug 30, 2018

One of the best and if not the best movie i have seen in years. One of my favourite of all time. Ignore the critic reviews they have no credibility. These are the same critics that gave “the last jedi 9/10”

papadrew7

Aug 18, 2017

This has to be one of the hardest movies I have seen in a long time. It belongs up there with heat, scarface, and the departed. It portrays a successful man who makes a horrible mistake and kills his best friend in a dui accident and is forced to do prison time. Money, main character, is… Expand

will-riker

Jul 29, 2021

surprisingly good. too graphic at times, but still a fairly good movie. Acting was on point, and I didn’t realize until a flashback scene that the main character was from GOT

imthenoob

Nov 25, 2017

Really glad I checked this movie out. Nikolaj has taken a wide variety of roles since his rise to fame thanks to Game of Thrones and this one is one of his most unique yet. As a banker who gets sent to prison, He realizes he has to adapt or die and ends up getting sucked into this world of… Expand

Franbarrman

Mar 15, 2018

This movie deserves to be watched for more people this needs to have more recomendations. What an amazing movie this surprised me in a very good way nicolaj coster-waldau gives such an amazing performance he carries the entire film so well, the music gives a lot of tension and it goes fast… Expand

badgerryan19

Sep 7, 2017

Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jon Bernthal star in this new thriller crime movie. With all the trailers I was actually stoked to watch this. Being a huge Game of Thrones fan and for it just looking cool. But does it actually deliver? Short answer yes. I did feel it did a good enough job showing… Expand

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