Softwing Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Jerrie It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

andreolimarco "Dirty Pretty Things" is sometimes sold also as a thriller film, actually it is an impressive drama, well written and directed.The story is about an irregular immigrant doctor from Nigeria who lives in London and leads a double life: during the day he is a driver while by night he works in the front desk of a hotel, managed by a slimy Spanish man.One night he discovers a human heart stuck in the toilet in a room of the hotel. Since that moment he is obsessed with that discovery and tries to understand why the heart was there. The film shows what poor people face to live a respectable life, especially in a big city like London, how they agree to a compromise to be happy.Without any doubt, Chiwetel Ejiofor is a great actor, his gaze is pained and plays extraordinarily his role, perfectly identified in the character's suffering. Sergi Lopez also deserves a mention, creepy and slimy. In the cast there are also Audrey Tautou as a Turkish immigrant who illegally works in the hotel as maid and Sophie Okonedo who is a prostitute.

camillabjorngard The movie started very confusing. I did not really understand what the movie was about until the very end. I would have no hesitation in recommending this movie for others. The main reason this movie was confusing is because of the rare accent of the characters. The accent or the pronunciation was not of the best quality. This was also very disturbing because I could not pay attention when i could not hear what they said. I think the actors did a very good job, it was great to see. It was just the plot that was not so interesting, it was hard to understand and to pay attention. The quality of the movie itself was also not so good. I know the movie is a few years old, but i think it should be mentioned.

Abel Muteba Dirty pretty things is about a medical student who has two jobs in some way. He works as a cabby and front desk in Baltic hotel. He discovers an unusual thing happen in room 510. Things don't go so well when his friend shenay. She is a Muslim who works as chambermaid at the hotel. She dreams of living in New York and she goes through a lot to achieve that dream. She receives a visit from immigration service. Both of them are illegal immigrants. Okwe's boss Juan is in a business that performs illegal surgeries and Okwe has no choice but to be part it just so he can be legalized in the U.K.My opinion: this movie was bad and i didn't like it. its just my opinion. it was a slow paced movie and it took time for me to get into it. they were so many unnecessary scenes too. don't worst your time on this movie like i did. what

Robert J. Maxwell Oh, those undocumented aliens, always messing everything up! Of course they have THEIR tribulations as well, and this story illustrates some of them, the sort of things that constitute what politicians call "life in the shadows." The two features players -- Chiwetel Ejiofor and Audrey Tatou -- are immigrants living in London. He's illegal, a doctor working two jobs as at the front desk of a respectable hotel and as a taxi driver at night, chewing stimulant weeds to keep awake. Her status is marginal -- she can't live with a man and isn't allowed to work. She does both, and the Minister of Immigration agents are always nipping at her heels.The story opens with Ejiofor in his desk manager role trying to unplug a toilet in one of the nicely appointed rooms and finding a human heart is causing the problem. It develops that the sneaky manager is running a business in which illegals yield up an organ in return for carefully forged passports that will allow them to leave England and make a new start elsewhere.That's only part of the array of options open to an illegal. You can find work in a sweatshop whose manager pays you less than scale and who insists that if you're an attractive young woman, as Audrey Tatou is, you give him some "relief" during the lunch break. She gives him relief the first time then bites him the second time, losing her job. The climax has an unexpected twist.I admire the way the film was executed. It's in no way dumbed down. Even the Spaniard working the organ business has a reasonable explanation for what he's doing -- from his point of view, everybody benefits. Tatou is cute and pouty throughout, as a refugee from Turkey. Chiwetel Ejiofor is a likable actor, handsome, polite, decent. His style is what some directors call -- well, I can't use the term here but it ends in "--kickers," in which the actor keeps his face lowered, as if looking at some cow flop he's about to nudge with the toe of his boot, and glancing up from time to time at the person he's speaking to. With some actors that can be a mannerism but with him it seems part of his quiet persona.Nobody's head gets wrenched off. It's not an action movie. It's not even much of a mystery. It's a well-plotted tale of an African guy who peeks a bit too deeply into his milieu and finds the tissue is beginning to decompose.