Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Tockinit not horrible nor great

Dorathen Better Late Then Never

The Couchpotatoes I rate this movie with a seven because of the good acting and an easy-to-follow story. For the haters it's not a documentary but a fictional movie even though there are some scenes described from real facts, like the news stories on the television and radio, and the G8 in Genoa. The movie can't please anybody apparently, not from right wing or left wing sides. I'm a left wing and even if this movie has a lot of racism in it, and a lot of free aggression from the riot police, I still think it is an enjoyable movie to watch. There are some scenes that don't seem realistic like some football riots because there are way not enough extras available in those scenes. It's most definitely a budgetary problem but it would have been better with more hooligans and police. I've seen a lot of football violence in my life and in this movie it's just a bit simplistic. First of all the riot police are just thugs, way worse than the so-called hooligans. I've seen innocents being beaten up by those bastards plenty of times. So in that the movie is quite accurate, the excessive violence they use most of the times. There was also a lot of racism in ACAB and that's also quite accurate in modern society, where if you're an immigrant you're almost immediately being associated as a bad person, while the truth is far away from that. All honest immigrants pay the price of a minority of thugs among them. But those thugs as well as the racists are basically just the same, some selfish ignorant and greedy bastards. So all in all the movie is pleasant to watch, it's well done with the budget they have. The cast is also good. In an ideal world the police should protect and serve the population, but we're not living in an ideal world, and there are daily proofs of police brutality against the weak. Police brutality that never get punished. Police protecting civilians but who protects us from thug police? The time that being a police officer was about respect is long gone. Almost nobody has respect for the police anymore and in my eyes it's really justified. All Cops Are Bastards.

cmoyton Great title for the book and subsequent film . Is the film entertaining?. No, not in the least. Yes these guys are tough - always impartial and honest , of course not and yet as of many police forces world wide are used by politicians like a football. So the scene is set, a young rookie for ostensibly financial reasons joins an experienced hard core riot squad. Then virtually the whole movie gets bogged down in the protagonists domestic lives and all the trials and tribulations that entails. What a snooze fest. Isn't that what soap operas are for.I personally don't feel the need to launch into some half baked political diatribe but clearly racial disharmony is a thread binding the film together with a couple of scenes attempting feebly to mimic American History X. ACAB is over-hyped and boring. Criminal.

evrend good movie, but don't get why some of the viewers attack on extreme left wings. Let me yell you i would consider my self Left or extreme left and i really liked the film. In the film we witness these riot cops lives and psychology, in fact director hidden targets the government/state's real role on police brutality, moreover these riot cops lives like school kids in a way, they don't have proper personal lives, take the cop who is stabbed, his son hangs out with faschist, he is over 40 and no proper connection with his son, and what about the new comer who reports his fellow copper(and i think thats what real police officer should do but than again thats another thing) i think the ending was good as we see what ever they do they still got their job back, and thats the reality, i mean how many times you witness a police officer been kicked out or convicted for the 'crime's he/she has done.what ever happens they got their job back mostly. A recent example to that(not even a riot police) the police officer who shot the black guy(forget his name) in tottenham which eventually led rioting in London then all of England, but than again the police officer who shot the guy still did get away. Any way back to the film, its realistic, in fact it wouldn't be realistic to show them just bloodthirsty people, there are always morals, conditions and psychology for these action (and class culture)

cinesimon Though it's not propaganda, given that it's not a government body trying to influence people toward their way of thinking - it's certainly the commercial equivalent. This movie is not an honest depiction of police in Italy. The beatings and killings get worse, and the accountability gets less. This is because over and over again, the brutal thugs - unhappy about themselves & their lives, take out their frustrations & self loathing on the public: those they're supposed to protect - have become untouchable. Yes, without doubt they are a tiny minority. The vast majority of cops do not engage in such brutal behavior. BUT - they will arrest those who're beaten, and help cover up assaults and even killings. They turn the other cheek when they see their thug brethren having their fun & getting their therapy. The 'good' cops do not report what they see - in fact they actively ensure that such behavior goes unreported. And they wonder why the public distrusts and despises them more every day? Do they really believe their dishonesty is believable? This is an extremely serious issue, in Italy and most western countries around the world, as corporations move to strike down democracy, & police are given free reign to brutalize those who don't like it. Yet a film like this seeks to diminish all that. Cops are the real victims, not the public. Utter hogwash, of course, and yet a further sign that police around the world have become gang and cult-like: it's them against the world. They have more in common with a cop from the other side of the world than they do their neighbors. They've separated themselves from communities, and now they seek to change how they're seen. Not by engaging with those they have power over in a positive way, but by pretending to be victims. This movies seeks to achieve that dubious perception - and it's a real shame.