Tigers Are Not Afraid

Oh, wow, what a good movie! The film features mainly child stars, and they are fantastic! The visuals are good and there are a few very scary moments.

'Tigers are not afraid' has a distinct 'Pan's Labyrinth' feel to it, yet it is very different. The film depicts the sad and dangerous lives of young orphaned children during ruthless drug wars. It so effectively illustrates how these children - despite their circumstances - can still find joy and beauty in trivial things that might go unnoticed to the mature eye. They are ultimately just kids still.

The film soon spins out of control as the kids are being hunted by drug lords, and every day is a battle for survival. The climax is brilliant. This is a very disturbing film, yet also so beautiful. Awesome!!

The film is a striking blend of realism and fantasy, it is the story of a pack of kids, orphaned by the drug wars, surviving in this underbelly of Maxico. Film's major cast is consist of child actors and they are mesmerizing to say the least.

The films follows a girl Estrella, who comes home from school, which closed early under emergency because there was gun-fight going in the neighbor. She comes home and finds out her mother is missing, to make things weird, in a good way, director added this flavor of fantasy to this. This girl has these three pieces of chalk that her teacher had given to her as three wishes she can ask for, just like in fairy tales as she tells her. So she asks for her mother to come back as her first wish, and then there's this line of blood constantly following her wherever she goes. Alone and scared she leaves home and finds a group of urchins, poor and destroyed, surviving on their own, she joins them. This group of kids is led by this small but tough-talking boy Shine, who somehow has got his hands on a pistol and a cell phone, that later plays a very important role in the film.

Film's imagery is absolutely stunning and heartbreaking, amazing metaphorical shots, some I could get some I could not but they were absolutely beautiful to look at. There is this stuffed tiger, talking, corp of Estrella's mother following her. Writer-director Issa Lopez has done a remarkable job at delivering the message of these underprivileged kids with utter realism and fantasy simultaneously. And all that with some very good performances from these are very, very young kids. If you have some free time, it would not be a bad idea to give this film a go.

In this dark fairytale written and directed by by Issa López, a gang of orphaned children battle to survive on the streets of Mexico amid the devastating backdrop of that country's drug wars. The kids are armed with three magical wishes to help them escape the clutches of the cartel that murdered their parents. This uncompromising movie sees López create a world that recalls the early films of Guillermo del Toro, imbued with her own gritty spin on magical realism to conjure a wholly unique experience. This is a movie with a real social conscience, López elicits solid performances from her young cast (who are all incredible). It's touching but unsentimental and quite often devastating (bad things happen to these kids), and is a movie that really gets its claws into you and refuses to let go.

The most impressive thing from Vuelven is the acting of the very young cast. They all gave very mature performances, it looked all very believable, and concidering their age that's not a given fact. Since the whole movie is mostly about them, it's a positive thing they found such talented youngsters. The story itself is something between a drama and a fantasy with a pinch of horror. It's entertaining enough to watch. Tigers Are Not Afraid isn't a joyful movie, but it's worth a watch.

Gangster. Children. Horror. All in one. Interesting film, it literally plays like a modern dark fairytale. I loved how theu brought the fantasy and the horror elements into a what could've been a regular crime/drama. Well done.