Rudo & Cursi
Rudo & Cursi
R | 19 December 2008 (USA)
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Two brothers living a hard life of manual labor in rural Mexico have a simple dream: saving enough money to build their mother her dream house. But fate has other plans. A friendly game of soccer leads to first Rudo, then to Cursi being taken on by the nation’s top talent scout. Suddenly, they find themselves living the high life of star athletes: fame, fortune, fast cars and beautiful women.

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Hellen

I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

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CommentsXp

Best movie ever!

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Curapedi

I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

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Roman Sampson

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

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MartinHafer

I know some folks really like this film and I remember a few critics who seemed to love it. However, I was really disappointed in this film and was surprised by this. It's also a shame because the movie had a lot to like in it as well.The film is about two Mexican brothers, Rudo (Diego Luna) and Tato (Gael Garcia Bernal). They both are poor and live in the countryside. Tato has dreams of being a pop singer and Rudo has dreams of....well, he didn't seem to have any when the film began. Both of these brothers also love to play soccer and one day they are observed doing this by a talent scout. The scout takes Tato to Mexico City to try to get him a job playing for a professional team and later the same is done for Rudo. Eventually, both become stars and both totally screw up their lives and the movie ends.So what is the fatal flaw? Both brothers are idiots AND not particularly likable. Rudo has a SERIOUS anger-control problem and is self-destructive with his gambling habits. Tato (soon nicknamed Cursi) is just a complete moron and is also a screw-up like Rudo. So why should I care about these two jerks?! Well, I didn't. And that makes the ending so incredibly anticlimactic and unnecessary.

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abbyltalmadge

I'm a sucker for foreign films and I must say this one is in my top three. Why? Because it's not just a movie about two Mexican brothers playing soccer. Rudo y Cursi is a cinematic tribute to the love-hate relationship between brothers and their individual struggles; one with women and fame and the other with gambling and drug addiction. The plot and the script were both well written. I especially liked Batuta's comments after each "event" in the movie; his metaphors for how life is like the game of soccer. You've got all sorts of layers in this movie involving family, culture, personal perspective, and a great ending that defines the quality of the story. Definitely a film worth watching.

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Charlene Lydon

The first film from the newly formed Cha Cha Cha Productions, consisting of Mexico's finest filmmakers Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu, Rudo y Cursi is a hugely enjoyable warm-hearted genre piece which re-teams the writer and stars of Y Tu Mama Tambien, Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna.Though, admittedly, not my greatest area of interest, there is always something very engaging about the sports movie. This film is a shining example of the genre. It tells the story of two poor country brothers, Tato and Beto. Tato dreams of becoming a pop star and Beto dreams of becoming a goalie. However, when Tato gets picked up, by random happenstance, by a soccer talent scout, Beto is horrified. Tato sees it as an opportunity to become famous and therefore get a record deal. Soon afterwards, Beto is given a shot at being a pro at a different club and they both become soccer sensations. Trials and tribulations ensue and the whole film builds up towards the inevitable climactic game with everything riding on it; brother versus brother.On some level this is an entertaining rags-to-riches story like all the other ones that have come before it. But there is a deeper level of sentiment at work here that allows the audience to engage fully with these characters and love them and hate them as necessary. The tragedy of simple men being seduced and quickly destroyed by fame is examined here, and to great effect due to the nicely rounded characters and undeniable chemistry between the two lead actors.Writer and director Carlos Cuaron (who co-wrote Y Tu Mama Tambien) does a fantastic job here. There is not a superfluous scene in the piece and the dialogue is not only hilarious but also snappy and natural. The screenplay flows along so nicely that by the time the film ends, you wonder where the two hours went and feel sad to be leaving these characters.A major problem with the film, particularly as a genre piece, is its lack of actual football footage. Most of the football is off-screen for some reason, perhaps the actors just aren't very good footballers. This hampers the excitement and the build-up of the third act somewhat. It is a huge pity because with so much invested in the characters, it seems a shame to take the excitement down a peg by not showing the matches. This is however merely a tiny problem in an otherwise splendid film.This is an impossible film to dislike. Devoid of sentimentality yet consistently heart-warming throughout, the lead and supporting characters light up the scenes throughout with subtle quirks and elegant tragedies. As dark as the story can sometimes get, it is never bleak, and always rousing. What more could one want from a summer popcorn movie?

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nypoet22

I found this movie outstanding, especially in the acting, but in the writing as well. It tells the story of two brothers whose relationship with each other grows and flourishes, even as the world of big-time professional sports chews them both up and threatens to spit them out as nothing but bones. In the telling of the story, there is only a little shred of doubt that their sports careers will plummet, but as a viewer it is hard not to cling to that doubt.Even as events begin to unfold as painfully as you'd expect them to, all the while you're hoping that somehow things will work out well in the end. The point that a lot of reviewers seem to miss is that, in a sense, things really do work out well in the end. But to realize this, you have to re-calibrate your values to understand what success in life really is.The direction is interesting, with a lot of goofy comedy and fortune-cookie truisms interspersed between serious drama. Some folks might find that contrast off-putting, but i think the filmmakers were making a conscious comparison of the world of entertainment and the world of family. Much of the soccer is off-screen, which i assume is a budgetary thing, but in a way it might help the viewer to understand that this film is not really about soccer, it's about being brothers.

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