Cidade de Deus

Rating: Null/10 (21 July 2017)

"City of God" is an excellent crime drama. If you don't speak Portuguese this movie does have subtitles. This is a lethal crime film that uses violence masterfully. At times excessive, its even more disturbing when you see how young the gangsters are in this film and how cold and calm they are while killing people they consider enemies.
I lived in Brazil some years after this movie was made and I should write that nothing much has changed. When this movie came out it was hoped shining a light on it might improve conditions for the desperately poor people who live there. That never happened. Not even the world cup could achieve that.