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City of Men, 2007

City of Men

Portuguese

Brazil

Rating:7.2
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Profile of City of Men

The mood of City of Men is bleak, tense, and captivating. The plot centers around life in an urban ghetto, best friends, and gangs. It is a drama, foreign, and crime movie. In approach, City of Men is serious and realistic. The setting is Rio De Janeiro. It happens in contemporary times. City of Men is known for being critically acclaimed. Note that it includes sexual content, profanity, and violent content.

Summary of City of Men

Director Fernando Meirelles scored an unexpected hit with his disquieting 2003 feature CITY OF GOD. Subsequent years saw plenty of similar fare emerging from Brazil, and Meirelles even lent a hand by contributing to the hit TV show CITY OF MEN. This big-screen adaptation of the show follows its two central characters, best friends Ace (Douglas Silva) and Wallace (Darlan Cunha), as they are unwittingly caught up in a vicious gang war in their dilapidated favela. Ace struggles with his newfound responsibilities as a young father while Wallace searches for his errant father. Meanwhile, a brutal turf war breaks out around them, and Ace is reluctantly swept up into one of the gangs after threats on his life leave him with little choice but to join in the mayhem.

Paulo Morelli's film is a pacy, bloody thriller that pays warm tribute to a diverse cross-section of American directors including Quentin Tarantino and Michael Bay. Bullets zing across the screen, heavy artillery is deployed at all times, and Morelli makes great use of the twisty favela streets during some frantic chase sequence. Silva and Cunha, who both had roles in CITY OF GOD, carry the picture with impressive ease, and while CITY OF MEN isn't an official sequel to Meirelles's lauded picture, it does serve as a neat continuation of that film's unshakable portrayal of the violence that has beset so many young lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro.

Details

Language: Portuguese
Country: Brazil
Release date: 29 February 2008
Runtime: 106 min

Cast and Crew

Darlan Cunha as Laranjinha in City of Men
Darlan Cunha

as Laranjinha

Douglas Silva as Acerola in City of Men
Douglas Silva

as Acerola

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Clips

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City of Men: Official Trailer
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City of Men: He had a gun like this

Critics Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle
A compelling and visually arresting drama.
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  • by: Ruthe Stein
TV Guide
It's lighter, funnier and violent, and it's not entirely without hope, making this tale of survival under horrendous conditions far more suitable for younger, more impressionable audiences.
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  • by: Ken Fox

Users Reviews

Really bad with the dubbing. Couldnt finish it. Would have been great to hear (read the subtitles of) the original.
  • 17.April.2011
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  • by: scooberandjinx
  • scooberandjinx rated this movie0/10
This film will have much more meaning to viewers who have seen the series, "City of Men" - of which this is much more of a sequel than "City of God." Sure, there are flashback scenes from the series to give you an idea of who the two main characters...
  • 10.October.2009
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  • by: Chucky
  • Chucky rated this movie0/10
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