Another typical day in a crowded and busy city. Then comes a series of unexpected events that have some expected effects: an armed man (Alexandre Rodrigues)
robs a woman (Marta Jordan) in her car, escapes through the traffic and when he's spotted by cop (Marcelo Melo) after his lunch break, a shootout breaks out and
everyone around them can be potential victims. A wheelchair bound old man (Emiliano Queiroz) assisted by his nurse (Carolina Condé); a young couple of students
(Hylka Maria and Vinicius de Oliveira); a blind man (Aramis Trindade) singing on the streets; a group of four friends playing cards (Rogério Cardoso, Lúcio Mauro,
Fernando José and Danilo Menegale); a security guard (Tuca Andrada) breaking up with his girlfriend (Camila Pitanga). At a given unlucky point in the afternoon
and one of them might get hit by a lost bullet.
Nothing new in this kind of hyperlink genre of multiple characters and segments that are connect by a strong and poignant event, many great filmmakers had used of such device of feature or short films, yet this one has plenty of qualities while following a whole tense situation and the thrill is never gone. The issue used comes to recurring situation that occurs in major cities where crime and law enforcement clash together while ordinary people are stranded in a dangerous crossfire and everything is so extreme that it's really hard to think and act at the same time, trying to save oneself or others, and the shot might come from everwhere.
The cast gathered here is pretty good, including many veterans from soap opera and other cinema projects, but highlight comes to Rodrigues, still fresh as the hero/narrator of "City of God" and this time he plays the bad guy, quite terrifying. And we're only deeply invested in finding where the shot/bullet is going to end: hitting the perpetrators of the chaos, some innocent bystander, someone who's quite far from the incident or just hit some wall or an object. The suspense kills us whenever we see the characters being introduced in flashbacks that later culminates in the final act. 8/10.
Nothing new in this kind of hyperlink genre of multiple characters and segments that are connect by a strong and poignant event, many great filmmakers had used of such device of feature or short films, yet this one has plenty of qualities while following a whole tense situation and the thrill is never gone. The issue used comes to recurring situation that occurs in major cities where crime and law enforcement clash together while ordinary people are stranded in a dangerous crossfire and everything is so extreme that it's really hard to think and act at the same time, trying to save oneself or others, and the shot might come from everwhere.
The cast gathered here is pretty good, including many veterans from soap opera and other cinema projects, but highlight comes to Rodrigues, still fresh as the hero/narrator of "City of God" and this time he plays the bad guy, quite terrifying. And we're only deeply invested in finding where the shot/bullet is going to end: hitting the perpetrators of the chaos, some innocent bystander, someone who's quite far from the incident or just hit some wall or an object. The suspense kills us whenever we see the characters being introduced in flashbacks that later culminates in the final act. 8/10.