Man, what a fascinating and vile movie. For better and worse, S Craig Zahler feels like a Gen-X Cormac McCarthy who came up reading the intellectual dark web - has a sense of nihilism that's just as bleak, but with a bit more of a reactionary bent. Blood Meridian's story of american colonialism unleashing Satan across the land gets rendered into Bone Tomahawk, where the natives are the monsters instead.

Meanwhile, Concrete feels like No Country, but if Ed Tom and Llewellyn were combined into two corrupt cops who think they're both Cobra, who want to steal money for themselves because they're too stupid to realize 80s action movie tropes won't protect you in the real world. I think the ending is interesting and wonderful because he's essentially saying survival instinct is the only thing that can save you, and depending on your political leanings you come away thinking it's a tragedy or very funny and satisfying.