“Dog Eat Dog” (** out of four) was a gruesome, ugly underworld thriller set in Cleveland about a vengeful mafia henchmen who hires a crew of ex-cons (Nicolas Cage, Willem Dafoe and others) to kidnap the baby of a rival mobster. Naturally, complications arise and things go horribly wrong. Typically sordid and unpleasant collections of characters and plot twists from Paul Schrader (“Affliction”, “Taxi Driver”, “Light Sleeper”) but best left to his most hard-core fanbase. Not the worst of its kind but missing the electricity and passion that Martin Scorcese would have infused in this material. Cage is entertaining; Dafoe is miscast as a sleaze who cries too often.