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This is a multi layered story. On the surface it's quite simple. A love narrative about a street thug named Bambino and a Ukrainian refugee. But while the story unfolds you learn about Italian life in a poor provincial city, complex family relationships, doings of a criminal underworld. Every single thread of it is extremely convincing and well developed.

What I loved the most is the visual language. It's reminiscent of the good old masters like Antonioni or De Sica yet with its own flair. It's breathtaking. The deliberate choice of black and white color works extremely well. It adds sophistication and nostalgia.

Whole film is dynamic and extremely engaging, I was glued from the first shot until the very end. The ending is shocking (don't want to spoil anything) and perfectly wraps up the movie.

I've seen it in Tallinn on POFF 2024 and it's one of the few films that really stayed with me weeks after screening.

It's a must see if you get a chance. Highly recommended and I wish great luck to the new rising star of Italian cinema - Edgardo Pistone.

Started watching without any expectations at all.

What an incredible experience it was. The whole film balances really well between drama, action movie and a hilarious laugh-out-loud comedy. Ending had an unusual twist and added depth to the storyline. More over, this is a story from which almost everyone could learn something new.

I really loved the way the heroes were chosen - it was like a bubbling mixture of superheroes, magicians and well-known cartoon heroes in general.

Again this is a reminder that we can be much more than society tells us to be. This movie should be definitely watched on big screen because of many little details. Definite must see!

CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS, BUT YOU SHOULD NOT REALLY CARE.

I rarely write reviews - but after watching the over-hyped brainwash epically named The dark knight rises - i felt compelled to do so.

Beware this movie was dreadful in every single sense possible. Besides, it shattered an image of Christopher Nolan as such an outstanding director for me personally.

1. Story This movie is a painful attempt to compress a ridiculously long story into a three hour running time. The basic idea to do so is a surefire way to failure. TDKR consists of a thousand cleverly mixed bits and pieces, which make the plot running, but at what price ? Pathetic plot holes covered with computer effects and glazed in "epic-ness", shallow characters, lack of logic, cliché dialogs (to say the least).

2. Characters Where they came from? Who they are? Their motives? Their feelings? Their beliefs? You see nothing. Only hints. How do they communicate? They exchange clichés and aphorisms. Gets on your nerves after watching half of the movie. Most reviews say that Catwoman was pretty good and believable, well, i just personally, do not stand women kicking ass - it's men prerogative.

3. Batman Batman is not a Batman in it's traditional sense. Wayne overcomes eight-year depression in a couple of days and (wow!) he still is in great physical shape - and without any special preparation turns into a commando. He overcomes all the difficulties, out-plays the police, the military, the whole country, beats the bastards, rides the cool battleship - and saves the WORLD!

4. Villain & the threat Bane visually was quite impressive, despite the weird voice, yet the context in which he was put completely diminished the power of a character. He safely lives under the city in the sewage, training a giant army ? I mean, one professionally trained police squad could stop him in real life. He walks around as if police snipers do not exist - just imagine him walking out on the stadium field in real life. Next moment you know it - head shot. Well, script writers thought otherwise. A reactor, which could be used as an atomic bomb? Built right under the center of the city? Oh, c'mon - how stupid is that? You can make an epic movie without a pretension for apocalypse. Miranda ? Who the hell is she - she appears a couple of times on screen and in the end turns to be the head of the whole operation. And what happened to the police ? Giant town is guarded by just a bunch (it is said 3000 people, but looks like no more than 50 or 100) of disorganized cops. Military guys looked even more pathetic.

5. Emotions Movie tries to manipulate audience to experience certain emotions, but fails with the only exception - it really makes you tense at times. Romantic story between Miranda and Wayne looks more like a cold one-night stand. Sadness and parental love coming from Alfred towards Wayne seem so forced - i persuaded myself to believe it. Robin's background is not entirely explored and doesn't provoke that much empathy as the director probably have expected.

6. Music I don't know who's responsibility is that - i believe an extra sound engineer for a movie would do the trick - the never-ending music just drowned out the voice all the time. With all the respect to Hans Zimmer, the accompaniment would suit a medieval battle movie much better.

7. The "Epicness" Everything in this movie, starting from the setting and going up to the music is so overly EPIC - it just becomes plain boring after the second hour.

Movie tries so hard to exceed all the expectations - it just becomes obvious. I would rate it two out of ten, just for the attempt and the amount of work involved into it's creation.

Do not believe the hype!