The location is still just as tragic and absorbing, but the story often wanders into the realm of generic action flicks.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Nov 28, 2020

The actors are strong, the sense of location is vividly authentic, but the script is disjointed.

| Nov 30, 2017

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 17, 2011

City of Men does not have that piercing naturalistic horror and drive of its predecessor. But it stands on its own as a chronicle of enduring friendship in impossibly horrid circumstances.

| Apr 13, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 13, 2011

| Original Score: B- | Apr 13, 2011

Powerful melodrama mixes violence, messages.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 15, 2010

Despite its sincerity -- and the beautiful visuals -- the often-disjointed story takes too long to gain traction.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 4, 2009

A must for fans of the 온라인카지노추천 series, as it continues the unique formula of mixing fun, fantasy, fear, and frankness, for 2 young men barely surviving to adulthood together.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Dec 17, 2008

It's all perfectly serviceable -- but it wants for freshness and vitality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Both Silva and Cunha (who reprise their roles from the television show) do make compelling leads and their performances add needed weight and shadings to their underwritten characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Where City of God provided a heartbreaking insight into Rio's flavelas and gang warfare . . . this film ends up more like a standard buddy movie set against a gangland battle scene

| Sep 18, 2008

It's decent enough but I just wish that it tried for something a little more fresh.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 22, 2008

The likable performances, hot, sweaty atmosphere and decently mounted action scenes make this entertaining fare.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 18, 2008

An engaging and frequently tense drama with terrific performances from its two young leads.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 18, 2008

Despite considerable dramatic interest, Morelli's loose, lengthy structure makes it a labor to hang in with.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2008

More bronzed bodies bearing arms leading to inevitable shootouts delivered via a washed-out, hand-held digital style pulsing along to an infectious Latin beat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 2, 2008

The film's overriding message that love and friendship exist under the most hopeless of circumstances is what makes City of Men such a worthy, compelling drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 26, 2008

Some might perceive City of Men as a slow film, while others could reasonably argue that Morelli is taking more time to develop characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 25, 2008

[One] plotline ends with a twist that doubtless felt more authentic in the halls of a film school than it would on the streets of Rio de Janeiro.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 16, 2008