sadnemous-370-99583 Those who loved Kaminey, this one is the next level. Those who are fan of Tarantino, this one is must watch. Those who watched City of God, and is looking for good Brazilian movie, this is for you. Those who loves action packed, modern age movie, you'd better not miss this one Those who is looking for world-movies which are under-appreciated but is a potentially great work, you may consider this one. 1. The puzzle like story development, which has been neatly woven and will lead you to more and more clarity towards the ending of the movie. 2. Innovative application of excellent visual effect (reminds me Funky Pawa by Maati Baani, though the movie is earlier work.) 3. Unexpected twist and the graphic explanation for that.I must thank denofgeek dot com for the suggestion - "25 under-appreciated modern foreign language films".

Lucas Kenan Two RabbitsIts always a pleasure to watch a Brazilian movie whit the guts to do it differently, to show that the seventh art in the country of the football still has a great future ahead. Afonso Poyart surprises us whit a history of robbery corruption and back stabbing counted in a very Brazilian way, whit great strength and by the peaces that the main character Edgar (Fernando Alves Pinto) want us to know. The direction of the film make it quick and easy to watch despite the overflowing of characters and the complex scheme that Edgar plans. The direction of art takes the best in São Paulo to feature the history and the always present contrast of the wealth and the poverty present in the movie. But the velocity and plot twists of the film do not contribute to the understanding of the characters and their goals. Afonso give us an main character that show no remorse after murder a mother and her child and have a life of plenty and yet seek for more money. Julia who in the beginning of the film appears as a fragile woman who its getting to much involvement in the hard life of crime, becomes an femme fatale who plays her husband and ends like the motivation of Edgar plans and his lover who do anything for the love shared by them. Walter its a blur figure hidden behind the bear of Caco Ciocler who Afonso leverages of the common though that he hated Edgar, to make him one of the lasts peaces of the puzzle. After all, you can see that the development of characters that Afonso does, do not make theirs mind clear to the viewer, the director knowing that, he use it to make more plot twists. All this things show how this movie has an great argument that was not entirely passed to the script. Regardless of that mistakes we see a lot of courage in Afonso's movie and it make me thought of the people saying, in the time of the release of "The secret in their eyes", that the Brazilian movie makers do not had that courage, but now i know that they have, and they are showing it.

Nafis Shahriyar After devouring this hardcore Brazilian film, what I had to articulate was Holy Sugar!!!! :o This is an ace class crime-thriller flick!!!! Hats off and Big Bravo to its young director, Afonso Poyart. It just blew over over my head to conceive how this super-swift supreme creation came from his debut direction!!!!! His script was so spellbound and plentiful with enormous twists that I could not miss a bit of attention over the movie. Excellent editing with the narration and flashbacks :))) Acting was also great maintaining those twists-turns and some camera shots definitely deserved eulogy. I treat it as a MUST WATCH for all high-tension crime thriller lovers :p___8/10___

calneto This is another movie following the footsteps of "Cidade De Deus" and "Tropa De Elite", meaning that the main topic is the blatant corruption of our society in Brazil. The main difference this time is that we are no longer in the streets of Rio, but moved on to Brazil's largest city. Much of positive can be said of the movie. The editing and the special effects are superb. The opening sequence, with drawings mixed in the scenes is particularly clever without being over the top. The acting is also very good and uses mostly actors from São Paulo itself, which is not something trivial, if you keep in mind that the huge soap opera industry of Rio is the one usually providing star power for film productions (granted, some of the main characters are played by actors known to the public for soap opera work: Alessandra Negrini and Caco Ciocler to cite the best known faces). Having said this, I cannot turn a blind eye to the plot. It is true that it is very intricate and told in a fast involving pace, but almost every single detail does not survive a closer look. Virtually everyone is cheating on the spouse in a way that helps the big master plan of the main character. Petty thieves suddenly become mega criminals, with heavy artillery hidden in their shacks and do not bend under any kind of pressure. Perhaps the most absurd thing is the improbable alliance between a former professor and the guy who killed his wife and child, without any apparent reason. The director should have tamed his ego and hired a better screenwriter instead of having a go at everything. I hope that is what he does in his next work, given that his directing talent is not at check.