Amores Perros

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Summary: Guaranteed To Jack You UP!
Review: Very Similiar to Quentin Tarantinos "Pulp Fiction" and "Jackie Brown" but actually much better. The film is about three diffrent lives, you get a feeling that your watching a diffrent movie when the film jumps to another scene with the other main characters. This movie should not be missed, I also heard this movie is limited in stock copies, so get it before they go out!

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Summary: Harrowing but excellent
Review: I rented this movie, on VHS, knowing very little about it. At the beginning of the tape, there was mention of a short documentary, following the movie, which explains how the dog fights were produced. I mention this because, after 15 minutes or so, I felt I couldn't continue watching - I'm a dog lover and the scenes are quite harrowing.
I fast forwarded to the back end of the tape and watched the 10 minute documentary. I'm glad I did this because, once I saw how the dog fights were produced, I was able to continue watching the movie.
The movie ? ... excellent. I really did find myself thinking about the characters for a couple of days after watching it; especially the old man with the dogs.

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Summary: THE BEST MOVIE MADE ON MEXICO CITY
Review: A must have movie for hispanics THIS MOVIE IS THE BOMB REAL LIFE ACTING IAM TOTALLY HAPPY WITH THIS GREAT FILM MUST OWN THIS ONE ON YOUR DVD COLLECTION i just wish if amores perros could come with ENGLISH 5.1 sound it will be awsome for people that dont talk spanish. EMILLIO GRACIAS POR ESTA PELICULA QUE ES DE MI D.F. GRACIAS A TODOS LOS CABRONES QUE ACTUARON EN AMORES PERROS LOS AMO MUNCHO >>>>>

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Summary: best of the year
Review: this movie is so engaging its scary. I loved it so much I can't even say. It uses a fairly popular cinematic tool (mystery train used it too) were several different characters all cross the same point. This way you can tell many different stories yet have them all tied together neatly. And the three stories told here are also all related in theme as well. Loss, missed dreams... Beautifully told. And the cinematography is so natural and almost crude sometimes, it doesn't gloss over anything. This should win best movie of the year, not just best foreign film. You will love it. Twenty minutes into it you will forget you are even reading subtitles because you will be so into it.

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Summary: oh my god
Review: When I came out of the cinema after the screening of Amores Perros, I was in shock. This is one, if not THE hardest hitting film of 2001. It is cinematicaly brilliant, beautifully filmed and created. Although many scenes are qute horrific, this all adds to the gritty realism of the film.
The story lines are captivating & invoke many emotional reactions, the soundtrack is superb as well - a must see!

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Summary: This movie starts a new era in the Mexican cinema!
Review: Amores, which was nominated in the Academy Awards 2001 for best foreign film, has set a new era not only in the Mexican cinema but all over America. Since the first moment you start watching "Amores..." it will take you to a breath-taking ride that you will enjoy all along. Although, the movie contains sexual-related scenes, and sometimes abuses of bad language, to be Iñarritu's first film ever it is as terrific and astonishing as any other. You will defenitely have to see it, you will enjoy it all the way and this will be a new thrill and wonderful experience!

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Summary: A strong debut in the Pulp Fiction vein...
Review: The film is the directorial debut of its director (Alejandro González Iñárritu ) and was chosen as Mexico's selection for consideration for the best Foreign Language Film Oscar for 2000 (and received a nomination). The film tells 3 stories set in Mexico City that all intersect with a car accident, and all show how people are burned by love. The film has solid production values. The 1st, and most compelling, story shows the seedy world of dogfighting. A character discovers his dog has a killer instinct & uses it to earn the money that will allow him to leave town with his brother's wife, with who he is sleeping. This is the strongest section of the film & really manages to portray a side of Mexico we rarely see in films. The film is absolutely raw here, and there aren't a lot of pulled punches in the depiction of the dogfighting. Putting this gritty section 1st definitely works to the film's advantage, as it catches the viewer off guard. As I commented to my friend who was watching with me, "If the film has the guts to kill DOGS, you know all bets are off!" This is definitely a film that would face hell if it was made in America.
The 2nd story shows a model who has broken her leg (in the intersecting car accident) and is confined to her new apartment which she recuperates. Unfortunately, her small dog falls in a hole in the hardwood floor that was made while she was moving in. Without her income as a model, she cannot afford to tear up the floor, and she and her lover are forced to listen to the dog whimpering at night, as they imagine it being terrorized by the rats that also live in the hole. This section of the film definitely works as well... the terror is palpable, since we've seen what's happened to the dogs in the 1st 1/3 of the film.
The 3rd story is the film's weakest, but is far from a failure, and it contains the film's best performance. It centers on a homeless ex-guerilla who is contracted by a man who wants to kill his brother... The hitman has other plans however... This section of the film is probably a little too simple-minded for its own good. The film's energy level is high, and its subject matter warrants comparisons to Pulp Fiction. It manages to hold up relatively well in that respect, surprisingly. It's missing a lot of the wit, however, that made Pulp Fiction a classic. In addition, the stories never come together in a way that really enlightens, but that's not to say the film is anything less than entertaining.

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Summary: Amores Perros
Review: The following review applies to the VHS and actual movie released throughout Mexico and the rest of Latin America--not to the yet-to-be-released DVD/VHS in the U.S. An extraordinary tale depicting the search for love and (life) meaning set in the largest city of the world, where resources, emotional and material, are scarce or misappropriated and animals parallel the lives of their owners-who often receive their upmost unconditional displays of affect and care. AP explores life with its intermittent signs of respect, responsability, and trust; and the most frequent displays of passion, which lacking intimacy, fuels an ever strengthing cycle of decaying interpersonal relationships. Beautiful cinematography and masterful direction, yet; a terrifying, shocking awakening of our consciousness to the realities of our lives. Movie goers residing in various Latin American cities reported experiencing a sense of invasion to their private lives, suddenly becoming overwhelmed by a repudieting self-loathing feeling...

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Summary: Amores Perros
Review: This is a cut version of an incredible movie...que lastima!

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Summary: Best Film in Years
Review: Not for weak stomachs, this is the most important debut since, ironically enough, Reservoir Dogs, and easily one of the best North Americal films of the last ten years. Not to be missed if you are a fan of brilliant cinema.