Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema

Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)

  • 75% of critics liked it
    (20 reviews)

  • 77% of users liked it
    (724 ratings)

An uneducated gas station attendant with a taste for the finer things in life turns to crime as a means of making ends meet, only to find himself on a dangerous collision course with the biggest drug dealer in town. All Lucky Kunene wanted out of life was a house by the water, a beautiful wife, and… More

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Jun 11, 2010 Wide
Anchor Bay Films

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  • Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times

    rags-to-riches tale cut from the same cloth as City of God, Goodfellas and Scarface.

  • Trevor Johnston, Time Out

    Writer-director Ralph Ziman strings it all together with slick competence, but given that leading man Rapulana Seiphemo does a persuasive line in moral ambiguity, it's disappointing that the proceedings too often default to glib shoot-'em-up.

  • Mike Hale, New York Times

    It's easy to overlook the formulas and just enjoy the ride.

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    The opening credits of Gangster's Paradise note that it was "inspired by real events." It would be more accurate to say that the film was inspired by Brian De Palma's Scarface and similar fare.

  • Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal

    Startlingly original, if occasionally overambitious. This is Tsotsi without the feel-good glow, a tale of entrepreneurship's perils and boundless pleasures.

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