Alicia I love this movie so much

Palaest recommended

Connianatu How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Chunyi Hsu This movie is brilliant in a sense that it delivers a strong story without actually using strong story lines. Many times the movie seems more akin to a documentary, where the audience is put in a position to simply observe and witness- no witty conversations, no dramatic music, no unusual camera angles. Pieces of seemingly disconnected stories nonetheless knit together a full picture of what Camorra gang, or any other gangs in the world, is truly about. There is nothing glorious- just pure exploitation of the weak and the greedy through violence and corruption. The movie started with a murder scene and ended with another. The tones, however, are completely different. The beginning was light, with friendly conversations with the victims and rather joyful soundtracks. The ending scene, in contrast, was just merciless and brutal killing, after which a heavy soundtrack was played along the credits. The is indicative of the development of the movie- first, the daily lives in the slum was depicted as nothing out of ordinary. As the audience goes deeper and deeper into the social fabric, however, the true face of the gang emerges clearer and uglier. It is omnipotent and influential. More importantly, it is self-serving and devastating.There is a strong message of greed driving humans into their own distinction. While some of the victims were exploited for the weak positions, many were also driven and eventually consumed by their own greed for money and power. This undertone is reflected in the closing: from the powerful scene of negotiation of illegal poisonous chemical dumping with the victim who suffers from the very poison he tried to earn money from- even in his death bed he could utter nothing but 'Euro'- to the two teenagers dreaming about becoming powerful gang leaders only ending up being killed like pigs and dumped like garbage.

SnoopyStyle This is a collection of five stories about people who are touched by the gritty Neapolitan crime world. There is a gang war erupting. Don Ciro is a scared middleman. He is jumped by the other side and forced to take them back to his location. Roberto works in waste management and his boss Franco is dumping toxic wastes. Pasquale works as a high fashion tailor controlled by the mob. He moonlights for their Chinese competitor but it goes wrong. Marco and Ciro are young gangster wannabes. They get in over their heads.This is a great faux-realistic take on the modern mob. It opens with a bang. I will always remember the waste disposal because of the subject matter. The two youngsters are probably the most compelling characters. There are some ups and downs. It's a disjointed watch. It's a wide-ranging take on the subject and proves to be an effective one.

Portaltech78 I can't believe I wasted my time looking at this movie, AND to top it off, having to READ subtitles! Where's the story? Where's the plot? All this movie does is follow this kid around delivering grocery's and some older man delivering money.Trust me do not waste your brain cells on this garbage that claims to be a movie.Funny thing is a critic (Stephen Schaeffer) from the Boston Herald said "The greatest mafia movie ever, strips every last pretense of romanticism from 'The Godfather' saga" <~~Seriously?Just look at the trailer and remember those movie reviewers AND IMDb users who praised this movie, so that you can never trust their reviews EVER again.Were they serious? This is NOT worth watching at all!

filmalamosa An inside look at slices of life you would other wise never know existed.This film details various activities of the mob in Naples. A lot of it is shot around a modern housing complex which has turned into a slum--the buildings are extremely modern and quite interesting looking but are run down low income housing.There are several subplots one concerns the mob disposing of toxic waste (a horrible idea forms in your mind of how much of this actually takes place).Another subplot--the best one--(I agree with other reviewers) is the tailor of a high line garment maker.This film jumps from subplot to subplot. In a couple of them towards the end I was lost and didn't know which subplot the scene belonged to.This film just introduces what the mob in Naples is like and as such should be viewed mostly as a documentary rather than a neatly structured story--even though it is apparently based on a novel.It was interesting ... 5 stars...