It was suggested based off my Netflix rentals. Is it a good movie. I should add...my wife rents off the same profile.

It's about children growing up as criminals, young, bad and hard, in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

A graphic, powerful, explosive, shocking, engaging Scorcese-type violent revelation in the style of "GoodFellas," "Gangs of New York," "Traffic" and "Scarface."

Good bossa nova, samba, American rhythm & blues soundtrack.

Subtitled.

It's how those cute "Little Rascals" would have turned out had their prospects been third world/underworld hopeless.

A realistic, modern "Oliver Twist" with blazing bullets and bloody betrayal.

It's "Casino" starring South American ghetto-trapped, desperate adolescents and pre-adolescents who live faster and die much younger than DeNiro, Stone and Pesci.

I also recently scored it from Netflix, after having read/heard about it for a couple of years.

And I enjoyed the experience of watching it.

If you like "City of God," check out "The Harder They Come," starring reggae singer Jimmy Cliff, which is similar but set in the rasta culture of Jamaica.

And then try Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg in Jean-Luc Goddard's "Breathless," which was remade in the eighties with Richard Gere.




Gig 'em, FAST FRED '65.

Before the world wide web, village idiots usually stayed in their own village.

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It's beyond good. Rent it.

FWIW, It's rated #22 on IMDb's best of all time.

I own this movie. It is awesome and really drives home their situation in the documentary on the extras.

very good movie, but I did get a little annoyed at the magic bullets.

Who knew that revolvers don't need to be reloaded from time to time

Alot of movies do this, and I always find it annoying

Again, very good movie aside

fantastic movie...benny is my favorite brazilian gangster/playboy character ever.

I own it as well. Great movie, although probably not a movie everybody would enjoy!

i watched it yesterday, loved it.

i also noticed the "magic guns"

yep, lot's of movies do this, & to me it is annoying as hell, I think I got it from watching movies with my father, he would always count the number of shots

I guess all movies can't be Dirty Harry

Good movie nonetheless, I just like a little more reality, especially when it is based on a true story

its top 5 all time

wow...

finally got around to this movie.

cross between Amores Perros and Traffic. Excellent.

Agree with everything being said here... definitely a must see...

Absolutely loved this movie. After I watched it, I thought that was pretty good. Reflecting on it the next day or so, I was struck at just how much it stayed with me. That's when you know a movie moves into the more exalted status.

Great movie! I also recommend The Motorcycle Diaries. Both of them are my two recent favorites.