City Of God (imdb | rotten tomatoes | buy it) was as good as promised. When I first started watching it last night I thought, “There’s no way I’ll care about these characters.”

I was wrong.

I ended up caring, very much, what happened to them, how they fared, what they did, how the stories intertwined, how things fell apart and back together. It’s an incredible, brutal movie, well worth the two hours.