i must have seen a different film!!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

1. Miscast, a thin attractive model type figure to represent the Afro-American community. A good looking white male to be her counter. Ends up sexual? 2. Half of movie is historic TV coverage (mostly from air, some ground level) of R. King and early '90s L.A. riots. Like any graphic video w/out research & facts to help interpret/understand it's all in the eye of the beholder. 3. As a civil rights active advocate from decades ago I do not endorse one-sidedness on any side. Film failed to provide any discussion from Asian shop owners POV from that period or from police (black, white, Asian, Hispanic) and their POVs. 4. Film was sensationalism for it's own sake and lacked an intelligent base from which to form the storyline.

But although it IS better than a lot of movies I've seen lately like sum other reviewers said it had wayy more potential due to the subject matter and actors even the little kid actors had charisma in this but abrupt ending that did not make me emotional (other than the after the very ending ; the movie being dedicated to a real kid) as sum of the other parts of the movie did...it seemed to be really good then a lazy made last 20-30 minutes

Deniz Gamze Ergüven has tried to tackle the issue of racism and the 1992 L.A riots surrounding Rodney King's incident and did not fully succeed which is kind of expected from a director who's not American and turkish and has zero on-scene familiarity with the unhinged racism against African-Americans and that turbulent time. She has tried to somehow outdo Kathryn Bigelow's Detroit but this isn't even near that. Though one can't really ignore the amazing performances by Halle Berry and Daniel Craig, It's not enough to save this garbled drama ! Deniz Gamze Ergüven's intentions are good but perhaps If the film was written by an American writer (Like Detroit that is written by American journalist, Mark Boal and directed by Bigelow), it would've turned "good" as well.However Erguven's Mustang which is turkish drama is a strong one and she should probably stick to depicting her own country's everyday/historical struggles (Turkey) which are not a few!

The movie starts very well, however after the riots the movie is a mess and quickly escalate to bad. Is too sad because the movie had potential with great actor and characters