A Ruddy Bloody good film

Rating: Null/10 (14 September 2003)

Has anybody ever heard of the band At the Drive In because Benny in City of God looks just like the lead guitarist from that band and Mars Volta. I thought I'd just share that with everyone.
I heard so much about this film and it was just getting on my nerves that no cinema around where I lived played it when it was released. One cinema near me played for one night only but I couldn't get to that particular cinema because it was to far and not cheap to get there, so I had to wait an agonising 5-6 months for it to be released on DVD. When it came out a month ago at my local video store, they didn't have the DVD, they had the video which annoyed me because a friend of mine saw the DVD and said it looked so amazing, but video it was.
At first I honestly was expecting something to be wrong with this film because when people usually say that a film is amazing like they said about this one, it tends to put me off because I have a strange taste fors movie's, but this one grabbed by the bollocks from the start and never let go to the final credits. It honestly felt like a three hour epic, coz there were so many characters and it wasn't the kinda film where you see one character and don't see him for another 30 mins of the film, each person had a story to tell which matched with all the other characters, like Pulp Fiction but much better and more rewarding. It did upset me in scenes when they were choosing which little boy to kill but before deciding they shot them both in the foot and these kids were from the age of 8 to 13, and the really small one who got shot first really upset me because, the way this young one cried and screamed after being shot, it made me think it actually had happened because he pour his heart out and I have never felt like that about a character since Christopher Walken's role as Nicky in The Deer Hunter, and that's what draws me to this film because it really does show you how real movie-making can be and it packs a punch of realism like no other.
I suppose you would say that Rocket is the main character because the whole story is based on what he knows about all these people but you even get to know the bad guys like Lil Dice or whatever you call him, he was just fantastic as he was a brutal character who gave no care for anyone than his best buddy Benny, but in one or two scenes there is something in him that shows you that he is human at the end of the day that's is what this film deals with, Real Life.
More amazing than any film I have seen this year.