Sums it up

Rating: Null/10 (12 October 2004)

If you live through the TOP 250 List of the IMDb best films ever, there are certain milestones of movie-history which come along uncompared to whatever came thereafter. Godfather's epic design, Shawshank Redemptions brilliant story-developing, Pulp Fictions step into the next millennium of fulfillment for the movie needs of a new generation. Breathtaking adoption of fairy tales like LOTR 1-3, melting Kids and Adults together in Toy Story 1 &2 leaves one back in the seat forever. What should be next? Any new movie design possible to fit in the TOP 250 IMDb List. Impossible I shouted out loud and slept well in my movie chair, until I have seen CITY OF GODS. With no expectations at all, I didn't breathe for the entire movie, no time for POPCORN and the drink. The opening scene sums up MTV Type of Clip-Movies in 3 Minutes and leaves u wishing to read the book, so that you can check for the ending, because you are thrilled into the last peace of your body. But the movie keeps its tension till the end. Cinematography at its best, with really unseen techniques not being incorporated for the selfsuck of the cinematographer, purely for the needs of the storytelling. Not a single actor appeared in TV Sitcom before, not on stage or in the movies before and all are playing there lives better than anybody could do. I could continue to describe why I think, that this movie is expanding the TOP 250 List not only because of the voters, it is really one step ahead in movie development and the best of it: It is not out of the Hollywood-Sundance-Cannes Bowl.