Brazilian masterpiece !

Rating: 10/10 (19 March 2006)

Meirelles pumps out an absolutely amazing film - you definitely climb aboard for the roller-coaster ride through the slums of Rio ! And it is a lot more original than his lastest "americanized" flick (the Gardner dude).
The treatment of violence (and there is quite a bit of it) is definitely more realistic than any American blockbuster... And it therefore makes it more real and harder to watch - the violence has more "meaning" to it (if you can say that) than movies like History of Violence for example. Can we see I hate cheap n' lazy blockbusters from the USA ? Naaaaaaagh... 10 out of 10 !