Easily One Of The Greatest Films Ever Made

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 2007)

The movie FLOORED me! Without a doubt one of the greatest films ever. I will guarantee even Spielberg and Scorsese completely flipped out when they seen this.
I cannot believe this was not nominated for best picture. This was easily the best film of the year. LOTR: Return of the King won that year and I can understand finally giving those movies their due, but to have Lost in Translation considered the second best movie that year (which I do adore) . . . but Translation is a script that easily could have been written in 2 days and filmed in 3. City of God is a towering achievement. What an unbelievable script with perfect casting and where they found all these actors (including the runts) and made everything feel so real - and like you were right there . . . gritty yet with beautiful cinematography.
In this, there are characters you will love to hate (Li'l Ze), Characters you will admire (Rocket and Benny), and characters you will root for (Knockout Ned).
City of God is just like the Middle East. You can always take out one leader but there is always someone from the generation younger waiting to step in and do the same . . . they learn it all from seeing everything around them. There will always be chickens (good metaphor used in film) and runts running around to catch.