Shot Caller (2017)

	Directed by: Ric Roman Waugh	COUNTRY USA GENRE Crime/Drama/Thriller NORWEGIAN TITLE Shot Caller RUNNING TIME 121 minutes
	Produced by: Michael Litvak Gary Michael Walters Jonathan King Ric Roman Waugh
	Written by: Ric Roman Waugh

Cast includes:
CHARACTER	ACTOR/ACTRESS	RATING
Jacob "Money" Harlon	Nikolaj Coster-Waldau	½
Ed Kutcher	Omari Hardwick	½
Kate Harlon	Lake Bell
Joshua Harlon	Jonathon McClendon	-
Frank "Shotgun"	Jon Bernthal
Howie	Emory Cohen	-
"Bottles"	Jeffrey Donovan
"Chopper"	Evan Jones	-
Sheriff Sanchez	Benjamin Bratt	-
Jerry "The Beast" Manning	Holt McCallany	-

Review

A successful young stockbroker with a beautiful wife and child gets his life turned upside down after a DUI accident lands him with a 16 month prison sentence in Chino. Shot Caller is a picture about the idiocy of the U. S. correctional system. With its bleak naturalism, it’s certainly poignant, but the film fails to offer any real reason why we should care for any of these characters, other than the fact that they’re all victims of a dysfunctional society well past its glory days. You need to sit through a downward spiral of Guantanamo proportions in order to get to the inevitable release. Danish actor Nikolaj Coster-Waldau plays the lead with repressed emotions and clenched teeth. But you like him because he’s handsome and skilful. A good performance comes from Jeffrey Donovan as the leader of a prison gang.