Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

Disturbing yet enthralling

Did you people see the same film I saw?

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

I really liked this film, found it well acted, scripted and moving. Movie opened my eyes to how potential life in big city slums may be in these areas and really is more than just your typical gangster flick.Lead character Lucky Kunene puts in a top class performance and really earns your belief and is an actor made for these kind of roles.The story is very good and connects the dots on all fronts.Starts out with Lucky Kunene's up bringing in a small village and his journey to JoBurg slums.All people who like action, gangster movies and also movies that can open your eyes about what some living conditions in other countries will enjoy this one!

I have just watched the movie for the first time just this past Friday, I was blown away and touched by it. i don't know if there is such a thing as a good thief, but I fell in love with Rapulano in this movie all over again, for me it had that James Bond element, except that his black and a thief, but that untouchable notion of 0007... Great story and acting. I felt sad for the white chick (grilfriend), not because of her colour, but as a women I could relate, when you think you know somebody but and realising that you don't and in such a matter is just so painful....., but on another hand....there was that element for me, of our black brothers going for white chicks... when they are loaded....even though in this movie that wasn't what brought them together.... interesting story indeed...

A movie that speaks to the core of the human spirit. As much as the movie is South African, anyone who has been faced with hardship will relate. Our dreams, when they shatter and fade painfully silently and the dark talents we discover in desperation for a moment to live the life we once aspired to. Seiphemo, Zekele and the supporting cast are brilliant on a script that pulls no punches, with impeccable direction. The overall execution leaves no vague on what goes wrong and how it becomes celebrated as fruits of crime are reaped and shared by even the most moral in our lives. South African cinema has moved to the next stage in evolution i.e. reflection on some of the darker sides of the new South Africa. A masterpiece.

Saw Jerusalema last weekend. I found the film to be an engaging, moving, and important reminder that the strangest worlds are right under our noses. Fast paced, gritty and in your faceI loved Rapulana Simpiwe in the lead, a stunning young talent, Jafta Mamabolo who played the young Kunene is fantastic. The script is excellent, reassuringly tight and Carried me effortlessly through the journey. This is the story of how a intelligent kid with the same hopes and dreams as anyone else; an education, work hard, get a degree and live his dreams through legitimate means, succumbs, despite himself, to a life of crime because it is his only course available.It accurately portrays the universal genesis of crime and loss of innocence and righteousness (the symbol of which of course was the mother with her hand pressed tightly on her bible). I don't know what's happening with the film in terms of its international release, but I would sincerely hope that many others will have the memorable experience that we did.