Tremendous film!

Rating: 10/10 (3 August 2006)

I have watched this film only yesterday when I got the DVD with all the bonus, musical video and the interviews. And I must say that I loved this tremendous film with all my heart! I didn't expect it to be so great. Anyway, my expectations have been greatly rewarded. Everything is excellent in this movie - the play, the music by Marc Isham, the operator's work, the colors, the plot. The very idea is also very good - racism. We face it in Russia, we see it in the ISA, we come across it all around the world. Racism eats us like a rust eats the iron. And, what is especially great in this film, is the fact that those heroes who seem to be racists in the first place (like the policeman played by Matt Dillon) turn out to be kind, heroic people, and those who never seem to be any racists at all, are in fact the ones. The cameo appearances of Sandra Bullock and Brendan Frazer are second to none! Even though their roles are small, they play with such blood-chilling truthfulness that you don't hesitate to believe them. Excellent story is the one with two Afro-American brothers - one is a Cop, another is a criminal. The second one is shot by mistake and this tragedy shocks so terribly. The plot about the Iranian shop-keeper is another winner. The film is an absolute winner, an absolute master work, a true holder of all those awards and prizes.