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Movie review: Vince Vaughn breaks free of expectations in riveting and grim prison thriller 'Brawl in Cell Block 99'

If novelty's your thing - and hell, even if it isn't - then you should probably buy a ticket to "Brawl in Cell Block 99," a veritable feast of images you don't see every day: heads being divested of faces, necks and limbs getting crushed underfoot, Vince Vaughn giving a master class in self-restraint.

But if forced to single out the most original moment, I'd point to a sequence barely five minutes in, not long after Vaughn's character - a 6-foot-5 human refrigerator named Bradley Thomas - gets laid off from his auto-mechanic job and returns home to find that his wife, Lauren

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