Touches You

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

This is an outstanding achievement. While many European productions basically look like made-for-tv films, this is cinematic in the best way. Still, you have to be patient to be rewarded. Much like Soderbergh's "Traffic", the movie features several protagonists and sub-plots that, in the end, all come together. The violence is all there, but not in a show-off action movie style, it is really closely connected to plot and characters. I have not seen a contemporary movie that shows you so much about the power of organized crime. Throughout the movie, police is nonexistent. The crime is not just restricted to gangsters, politicians are part of the system, even the Vatican (just some hints of it). The actors are great, for non-Italians some are real discoveries. Production values first rate, music, locations all combine to create something really special. I watched the movie in its dubbed German version because my Italian is just shaky, but it was still great!

You know this is structured in the best sense, a familiar sense for people who have seen a couple of crime movies. You know a little bit of how they are structured, you can feel where it is going. And still the suspense is there. Even when you are like "I see, I know", it still delivers the punch with such precision that you don't mind a bit of predictability. Also the quality is of the highest standard.Acting wise and story/script wise that is. We are talking about a very tight story about many characters, connected one way or another. If you judge this morally you may have some issues. It'll be hard to find a likable character in this. But that is not what this movie is about. Since this somehow connected to the people who did Gomorra, the show and I reckon the movie, I'm looking forward to watch that too

Alarm bells ring when a poster quote says that a prolific director famous for organised crime thrillers would be proud of it.And then the Blu Ray case has not one, but nine four or above star ratings from very well regarded publications, and so etching called Hey U Guys.But fear not, for once this is a film that is worthy of all its plaudits.In 2011, Ostia is the subject of a giant real estate project intended to make the harbour of Ancient Rome the Las Vegas of today. But the place soon becomes a battlefield where criminals and politicians either join forces cynically or fight each other ruthlessly. The infernal showdown will last seven days, claiming many lives.....Suburban is divided into seven parts, each depicting the lead up to the governments decision on granting permission for this project, and on each day, so etching goes drastically wrong for one of the characters who are crucial to the films narrative.And there are so many crucial characters, in the hands of someone lees confident,this could have fell apart on day three. But coming from the director of Gomorrah, Sollima keeps the film at a heady pace, keeping the brutality of Gomorrah, but adding such a beautiful cinematic feel to it.Members of parliament are more crooked and desperate than the two organised crime families, who need to keep the peace until the deal goes though. But this is impossible, thanks to one member of parliament who got a little too amorous with two ladies of the nights, and a lot of drugs.But it turns out that one of them was a minor, and died due to overdosing. And this is where the dreams of the project begin to fall apart.Lust, caution, as they say.It's a very hard film to watch, especially when the element of betrayal begins to enter the narrative fray. It's a film where everyone appears to be in constant danger, and Jean- Hughes Anglade is the unfortunate pawn who is bullied into doing all the pithy jobs, and he's the best thing in it.Set pieces are wonderful, in particular the siege on a shopping Mall, done on a grand scale, but keeping that wonderful gritty realism.Well worthy of all the praise, this needs seeking out.Apparently Martin Scorcese demands it....

The entire film is nothing but artistic scenes of very, very gratuitous sex, violence, and drug use. It more focused on the disgusting world of dirty politicians than it did with any sort of mafioso element. Nearly every scene was highlighted by modern electrica by M83, the film literally had 12 songs by them. So of a 130 minute run time approximately 100 minutes of it had loud techno playing. Felt like I was watching a music video and not a movie. I wouldn't recommend this. What little dialog existed was pretty decent, but there was just not enough substance in the film to convey much of anything. The first 25 minutes or so had around 30 words spoken, the rest was nothing but hardcore sex bordering on pornography. I am very baffled at the high reviews this is getting. I understand 'artsy types' enjoying this, but to anyone with opinions based in reality will find this disgusting. 1/10 stars.