Amazing!...

Rating: 10/10 (14 October 2000)

This movie is absolutely fabulous! I can't describe the way i was feeling after seeing this, i was speechless, the only thing i could say to everybody was «My God, this movie is amazing!», i was shocked and stunned and touched and everything at the same time.
It's amazing how a director like Tony Kaye and a writer like David McKenna made such an amazing movie in their debut in the movies scene. I found out this when, after seeing the movie, thought to myself «I have to see other things from this guys...» and, to my surprise, didn't find anything!
One of the things that made me like this movie very, very much, was Edward Norton. He is, without any doubts, the best actor of his generation, and his role in this movie wasn't easy, but he made it perfectly. One of the strongest sequences of the movie is when Derek is being arrested, he is the personification of hate itself. There are two things that you should consider in Edward's acting (and they're both perfect), the first is his acting as a skinhead, he really makes us to think that he is in fact a skinhead; the second is his redemption, especially starting from when he is raped in jail, from that moment he begins is change into a different man.
The other actors also have good performances, but we must be real, Edward Norton makes them small with his greatness.
The end of the movie is also an amazing thing, and that's beginning to be something rare in these days, movies are starting to be predictable.
Certainly one of the best movies of all times...
10/10