Citt of God is Fabulous

Rating: 10/10 (8 April 2005)

Easily one of the best movies of the year, perhaps the decade. I have not seen a gangster movie with the level of nuance and attitude as City of God. All the of the characters are wonderfully developed and all have their own identity to add to the message of the film. The locations in which the film was shot are almost a character unto themselves and I left wanting to see more of this slum of Rio de Janiero. There is nothing that I can say about this movie other than it is a masterpiece of storytelling and setting... This is the movie that will put Latin American cinema back to it levels of a couple of years ago. Yet City of God moves beyond what Perros Del Amor and Y Tu Mama Tambien ever dreamed of achieving. Go watch this movie!