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Title: beating a dead horse into the ground
Review: Hated it. What a slog.What is it with the film world these days, that any movie about Brazilian favelas is immediately hailed as a gritty masterpiece? There are plenty of sucky movies about Brazilian favelas: this is one.It just goes on and on. I mean, we get it. The life of these poor kids is miserable, jail is horrific, and the police mistreat them. This should have been just a 10-minute short or so: do we really need to see every inch of footage and be treated to a blow-by-blow account of the incident? Then he stood her up . . . then she started crying . . . then he seemed to feel bad . . . then he asked for some cheeseburgers, etc.Sheesh. Other than "life blows when you're a poor kid in Brazil," the only insight this film conveys is that the Brazilian special forces are completely inept and incapable of dealing with a hostage situation.
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