Relentless misery.

Rating: Null/10 (27 February 2004)

You know, I love crime movies. Even the low brow stuff which is sometimes hard to watch. Some people are driven to a life of crime by several factors of society. Child abuse, poverty, unemployment, over taxation, racism and other injustices and society is just as culpable as the criminals it produces.
However, this film is just sheer repetition. It shows us criminals in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, stealing, killing and ganging since childhood. But because it has nowhere else to go after that, except when they become adults and do the same things, I found this film tiresome after about the first hour.
Having seen thousands of movies in life I always try to look for a way to accept the message given by all films but this film just didn't cut it for me as it was just low brow criminals running around the streets. Seen it all on COPS. You'll be surprised how much this movie looks like that t.v. show.....except for the cops, who are hardly anywhere!