The Movie, the Watchers and the IMDB

Rating: 7/10 (11 January 2019)

Let me start from afar. If you actively use the database and read users' reviews you might be a little bit confused about pretty much everything.
The worst movie presented on the site can have a lot of 10/10s and praising comments. As well as the best movie, currently "Shawshank Redemption" can have many 1/10s saying that it does not deserve to be the best movie, or even saying that it is actually one of the worst movies ever.
I understand that for each person each movie feels subjective and one person will like something that the other person will not.
But in such case as this people that think that movie is ok or even good would give the lowest grade to drop the number of the movie on the list of 250 bests.
I currently is on the marathon of IMDB's best movies, and "City of God" is in top 20, so I couldn't miss it. And before watching I couldn't resist temptation of reading some reviews. Oh man, so many people hate this movie. Yet it is here in the top list. That actually made it more interesting to me. Why is so?
And here is my opinion: the movie is not bad. If you don't pay attention from the start you might dislike the movie. Otherwise it is nice criminal story with no romantizing of bandit life. Do I think it deserves to be in top of all time? Probably not. But that is solely my opinion.
In conclusion, it is decent gangster movie about simple kids. And that is all. No more no less. Not a masterpiece, yet not a piece of you know what. Just watch it and make up your own opinion, as did I.