Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Redwarmin This movie is the proof that the world is becoming a sick and dumb place

Btexxamar I like Black Panther, but I didn't like this movie.

Leoni Haney Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

lantern4444 This movie was extremely good . It developed many intertwined complex characters over many years. Early on the use of humour greatly improved the audiences appeal towards the main characters. It also seriously involved the political and social aspects of South Africa at the end of apartheid from diverse perspectives. These aspects were portrayed without placing blame but just told the story as the facts of life and circumstance. Many stereotypes where dismissed when they were used unsuccessfully to gain advantage by attempting to force others to be political correct. I would have rated this movie 9/10 except for the last 20 minutes which was complete garbage. Like any B grade Hollywood movie the last part of the movie was full of impossible shoot-outs and crime does pay themes. This seriously impacted in such a negative way I changed my rating to 6/10. The movie is definitely better seen without watching the last 15 - 20 minutes.

Ricardo Mokwena This was an appealing motion picture from South Africa but nothing out of the ordinary.The story line is direct but desiccated.It wastes not time and goes immediately into the tragedy with no stops no loop-holes.It moves at a fast pace with awesome rawness,remarkable action sequences and noticeably catchy dialog.But ,then again this story about South Africa has been told before and the audience has grew tired of this.This meaning a seemingly unchanged usual portrayal of South Africa as a crime infested place.Not meaning that South Africa is not crime infested but the way which filmmakers portray it.'Ralph Zimans' approach to the crime film is regular with nothing fresh. The story of hi-jacking and apartheid has been told in this way so many times before.What the audience wants to see is this story told at a diverse acuity.This film targets a topic which is a pandemic in South Africa but does it in a way that gives the audience a look and feel of having seen this before.If you look closely Jerusalema is chip off 'Hijack Stories' 2006 which starred Rapulana Seiphemo again in the lead role.The character development and acting was stimulating except that the filmmakers did not explore the depth of the characters in such a way that it builds a lasting connection through to the audience.Such as was done in 'Tsotsi' 2006 which is why it won an Academy Award.Jerusalema is highly entertaining but very forgettable immediately afterward watching it.The hype behind the film was thrilling however the characters, the ending and the story itself are all unmemorable.

Howard Schumann "Inspired" by real events, Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema takes place over a ten-year period and depicts the rise of Lucky Kunene (Jafta Mamabolo as a boy, Rapulana Seiphemo as an adult), a poor but clean-cut gas station attendant from Soweto who becomes a millionaire real-estate kingpin in Johannesburg. While the film has many of the generic qualities we associate with gritty crime dramas of the past, Jeruslema, submitted by South Africa to the Academy Awards to qualify as a nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, stands out for its uncommonly vivid performances and stunning cinematography as well as its harsh, though mainly surface, look at the realities of the post-Apartheid years in South Africa.The film opens when Lucky and his best friend Zakes (Motlatsi Mahloko as a boy, Ronnie Nyakale as an adult), inspired by the euphoria surrounding the election of Nelson Mandela and the ANC, dream of a better life. Lucky has been accepted into college but without a scholarship, the only university he will attend will be, as he puts it, "the University of Life." Unfortunately, his ambition soon draws him and his friend into the criminal underworld of Soweto where he becomes a follower of gang leader Nazareth (Jeffrey Sekele), a former ANC guerrilla leader who received his training in Moscow.Nazareth teaches him the skills of carjacking which he calls "affirmative repossessions," and Lucky earns enough money to bring new furniture and appliances to his family. In basically the only light touch in the film, a hijacked car owner is forced to teach the hoodlums how to drive his car through trial and error. Like any addiction, however, the amount of money Lucky accumulates will never be enough and he is drawn into even more serious crimes. Thwarted by his lack of political connections and the social and economic situation he finds himself in, he moves to the crime-ridden Hillbrow district of Johannesburg where the film jumps several years.After the breakdown of his taxi business, Lucky concocts a semi-legal scheme to take over run-down tenements under the cover of being a charitable organization, The Hillbrow People's Housing Trust. "In the new South Africa, everyone deserved their entitlement," Lucky says. He becomes known as the "Robin Hood of Hillbrow," collecting rents and negotiating for a lower rent on behalf of the tenants, then holding out against the slumlords that have benefited from the tenant's miserable living conditions, forcing them to sell to the Housing Trust for a pittance. Throwing out the drug dealers and prostitutes, he promises to confront the racist power structure and provide the tenants with much needed reforms, but never really delivers, having to maintain a steady cash fund to buy more properties and repeat the same scheme.Even though he has become a slumlord millionaire, to the residents he is a saint. To the cops, however, particularly white cop Blakkie Swart (Robert Hobbs), he is just another hoodlum and scam artist. Trying to outwit Swart is one thing, but having to also deal with Nazareth and drug lord Tony Ngu (Malusi Skenjana) becomes increasingly dangerous. A relationship with a wealthy white woman, Leah Friedman (Shelly Meskin), in which he offers to help her brother escape from Ngu's clutches, shows his capacity for growth but provides only a temporary trip to the good side.With war building for control of the cities slums, confrontation with his rivals becomes inevitable and the blood begins to flow. Though it has more than its share of bloody violence, Jerusalema is a gripping thriller, entertaining and uncompromising in its no-holds barred realism, but also fails to dig very deep into the background of the country's urban decay and it's continuing racism. To its credit, Lucky is depicted neither as an inspiring hero nor a corrupt villain but somewhere in-between, a man with a strong entrepreneurial spirit whose heart is in the right place but one who has lost sight of his dreams and is blinded by power and greed and an ambiguous moral compass.

davetherave-1 Saw Jerusalema last weekend. I found the film to be an engaging, moving, and important reminder that the strangest worlds are right under our noses. Fast paced, gritty and in your faceI loved Rapulana Simpiwe in the lead, a stunning young talent, Jafta Mamabolo who played the young Kunene is fantastic. The script is excellent, reassuringly tight and Carried me effortlessly through the journey. This is the story of how a intelligent kid with the same hopes and dreams as anyone else; an education, work hard, get a degree and live his dreams through legitimate means, succumbs, despite himself, to a life of crime because it is his only course available.It accurately portrays the universal genesis of crime and loss of innocence and righteousness (the symbol of which of course was the mother with her hand pressed tightly on her bible). I don't know what's happening with the film in terms of its international release, but I would sincerely hope that many others will have the memorable experience that we did.