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In the attempt of hiding from the police, Enzo Ceccotti, a small street criminal, jumps in the very polluted river Tevere; a few days after he'll discover to have acquired extraordinary powers.

I'm sure that it will not be easy to fully comprehend the beauty of this movie if you don't understand the complexity of the contemporary Italy. This movie depicts perfectly a country full of contradictions: a breath-taking city envied all over the world that hides a degraded outskirt deep inside; a generation of children stuck in their grown ups bodies with their vanilla puddings and their Japanese anime on local TV channels; a criminal class that fluctuates from the ridiculousness to the ruthlessness to whom money has the same importance than popularity and Youtube visualization numbers; and a criminal with no emotional bonds, values or reasons to do good (that would not inspire empathy in any other superhero movies), is saved from an unexpected "damsel in distress" and becomes the hero of a community that often looks hopeless to those who live here every day but that sometimes, unexpectedly, finds its superpowers in the common people, the real heroes of this crazy, misunderstood country.

In the '60, the Kray twins become the most famous gangsters in the story of England from their humble origins in the East End, to taking control of several nightclubs in London; but despite their identical appearance, their differences will bring to the ruin of their empire.

A double Tom Hardy (better at playing Ronnie than Reggie) is not enough to keep together a movie that lacks to go deep in the most interesting parts as the relationship between the two brothers or their business in favor of the conventional, already-seen-a-thousand-times, not even well written, gangster love story that is also accompanied by an awful voice-over that has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.