I give it a 5 for its technical slickness but the plot and the cliches already mentioned here and there are unbearable. This is a story about a community or a mix of communities whose social integration in their host country is a complete failure. Those who succeeded and they are many, would not get into this simplistic finger pointing. With his film, Ladj Ly has become a flagbearer of this victimization most of the French can hardly accept given the level of wealth redistribution in this country (the highest in the world). Yes these communities live in a Ghetto but - and it might come as a surprise - this ghetto is dripping in taxpayers money. Make no mistake this is not an "out of the grid" sort of hood. They have schools, hospitals and public transports (you see the kids taking the train to Paris in the first scene). Long story short, this is a biaised take on life in Montfermeil where Victor Hugo had quite a different experience.
Review of Les Misérables
