CITY OF GOD

5The 'Second Amendment': Set in the housing slums of Rio de Janeiro, warring hoodlums engage in sanguinary ghetto battles to determine territorial sovereignty.

This is one flick I bet my bro & buddy Allan Ang will definitely dig. Here's what I had to say about it in my 2003 nutshell review: "No other foreign film in recent memory possesses more vitality than this voluble, violent, pumped-up Brazilian version of Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS". It's still true.