Annoying... unashamedly overrated!

Rating: 3/10 (2 February 2009)

The first 45 minutes of the film turned out to be actually very very good - in the waters of City of God. However, later on in the film, sunk in the the cheesiness, pretentiousness and the banal ending which killed the whole thing.
I understand this is a realistic take on a intrinsically cheesy way of storytelling, but nevertheless I felt it should have been a less phony outcome.
The film itself stands as a praise for a state of mind which strands millions of miserable souls to those miserable slums...
Hence the mega-idiotic and ultimately shallow poster.