Relentless and Powerful

Rating: Null/10 (3 January 2004)

This film is incredibly well made and very powerful. The violence, the poverty, the ignorance, the complete lack of respect for human life becomes relentless and after all, numbing but that is the point. There is no hope anywhere in the slums and the gangs become the only thing there is. The performances are amazing - incredibly strong. Quite violent. A Brazil Scarface, Good Fellas and The Killing all rolled into one. Check this film out. One of the best of the year.