This is it!

It would be fine with me if most films were done so well...but this was exceptional.
The only actor who should not have been cast is Furlong....I gave it an 8 !

A splendid film....Tim Roth and supporting cast,Bravo!

It's a gorgeously harrowing, patient, understated character study - or rather study of a family/community - masquerading as a gansta affair. Tim Roth's performance is absolutely top notch, wonderfully eloquent and alive, showing enough glimpses of humanity not to be written off as merely a thug - and all this without ever having to "take the stage", perform the big scene, jump through no hoops to command attention... that's true artistry that exposes Hanks's one-dimensional, bleating and mugging impersonation of a conformist retard Forrest Gump for the artless, populist fraud it is. Likewise, Maximilian Schell and Furlong are great, way better than anyone would've reasonavly expected. The knotted relationships between all this Brighton Beach folk ring effortlessly true and natural, and suggest roots going deep back to past without the slightest need for exposition... we get everything, even though it's communicated with minimal means. And then there's the cinematography, patiently allowing this sad drama to play out, never shying away from the irrepairable damage done, lives destroyed and mercilessly snuffed out because the bloodstream's poisoned so long ago and now it's circling back. with an inevitability no one is even attempting to escape... because they know better. A merciless, beautifully filmed, emotionally devastating little picture; it's like the goddamn 1970's all over again. Leaves one so totally empty against the gray, indifferent skies - and the bedsheets that so prominently & unfortunately feature in the end, call to mind the equally tragic conclusion of Wajda's Ashes And Diamond, of course.

The way this sh-t is. A rather flawless masterpiece.



"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan

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that good?

GOOD LIL FLICK.