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Crank (2006)
One of the best Action Movies of this decade
Its quite an original film, but the best way to describe the feeling of watching this master piece action cinema is to combine «Falling Down» with «Payback», mix them with «Snatch» and put Guy Ritchie and Tarantino on the scene. Crank is a big shot of adrenaline that lasts 1 and half hour on a parabolic and progressive way ;) This is by far the best Action movie I have watched after the 90's, and I'm looking forward for new projects from this directors ! Wow... I'm still kind of dizzy after this unbelievable movie, but I'm going to watch it again several time for sure. This will be considered as a Classic Action Movie from the 2000's. Good work !
Balas & Bolinhos - O Regresso (2004)
A great movie for pre-teenagers, but simply not funny.
It's great to have initiatives like this one, taking in consideration that this is a low budget movie... But this is based on very low / primary humor principals, and it pretends to be funny just because of the bad language, and crazy actors. The story, is no story, and it's not even original, as it tend to be a Pulp Fiction-humor-style of movie, and it ends being nothing but a bunch of clown acting comedy.
Only in Portugal, a movie like this one can have success, just because the amateur / independent movies are starting in the country, and the audience just like the surprise of seeing something different from the standards.
Simply a: NOT TO WASTE TIME WATCHING movie...
Cidade dos Homens (2002)
Great piece of Art !
If you have seen the «City of God» movie... and you really enjoy it... You just have to run and see this mini-series.
With the same actors, the same and other directors, and with the same landscape (Brazilian «Favelas»), Cidade dos Homens is a great mini-series, that show us how is the live, dead, living, love, fun, sadness on the Brazilian «Favelas».
Another interesting thing about this young actors, is that most of them, actually were young kids that used to live on the streets of Rio de Janeiro, because of this are now having a normal live, with other perspectives. I'm sure most of them will have a great future on the movies or cinema works.
Great Job... I'm only sad because it ended... ;-)
O Homem do Ano (2003)
Very deep, very well done... and very real!
I started to see Brazilian movies a few years ago. And after «City of God», and the mini-series «Cidade dos Homens» («City of Men»), I was really expecting to see another movie about criminality, but outside the «favelas». Man of The Year, was the best picture on this subject, and together with «City of God» we can have a real perspective on the Brazilian crime scene.
The movie was really well directed, the script and the story were great and very original, and the photography and angles were very well done. The actors were Great ! as the Brazilian cast have already teach us on prior movies... They promise a lot !
It's a common story, about how everything started to an Hit-man... and it all make sense and happen in a so natural way... It's like the destiny was already written.
I specially enjoyed the end of the movie, because I was really expecting the «usual» bad ending on a movie like this... But the director give us a chance...
I gave a 9 out of 10 to this picture and I'm already waiting for the next Brazilian movie on this thematics.
Great Movie !