the leading man is my tpye

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Blistering performances.

Please give the film time to start rolling and it will pull you in. The story has it's gruesome parts but these are very much needed to demonstrate the emotional journey which it will take you on. I found myself welling up at the end of the film and I am not one for being like that. If you do watch & enjoy this film then I would recommend watching The Intouchables 2011 (not the untouchables) & City of God. This film has a gentle pace and you will find that you might start liking the Thug, you will find yourself questioning your morals and your view of justice as the film progresses. I don't want to spoil the movie so just watch and enjoy!

The male lead has an uncompromising glower, and that is the extent of his repertoire. With his gang and his glower he stalks through shanty town, striking terror into the townsfolk? Actually no, derision, they're jeering at him. Camera concentrates on his glower, what will this badass of all badasses, this gangsta's gangsta, do to reduce these sniggering jackals to a state of grovelling terror? In that time-honored gesture of defiant helplessness, he raises his middle finger to them. That's the first descent into bathos.Gang on subway, glower spots victim flashing paypacket, gang surround him, glower skewers him with skewer to heart, Train stops at station, and every other person in the compartment gets off, and no one gets on. Total improbability number 1.Gang in bar, member upbraiding glower, apparently offing folks is a new departure for the gang. Glower beats upbraider to a pulp, then flees in terror through the night and the undergrowth and the pouring rain. His rain (or tear) streaked face keeps being interspersed with that of a lookalike young boy, tear-streaked. What do we have now? A psychopath with a conscience? Total improbability and descent into bathos number 2.Glower emerges in the suburbs. Car drives up, garage door won't open, woman gets out to call her husband on intercom. Glower takes car at gun-point. Woman objects, glower blows her away. Woo-wee, we're back in psycho mode again! 30 seconds later, baby in back seat wakes up and starts crying lustily. Glower stops car, we witness his inner torment, and find ourselves on our knees before the screen, hands clasped in supplication and imploring "Please, please, just once stay in context, will you. Just pick the kid up by the scruff of the neck and toss it out the window". Not a chance; now we get total improbability and descent into bathos number 3. Glower decides that all he's ever really wanted is a 2 month old baby to love and care for.At this point, ten minutes into the movie, I tossed it. It was either that, or my cookies.

The crime movies that I often love watching the most are the ones that are deliberately kept small and simple. They involve a simple plot and have some ordinary, everyday characters in them, which makes the movies realistic and involving to watch. And while this is perhaps not the most realistic genre you will ever see, it still is a very likable and involving one to watch.This South African Oscar winning movie manages to become a good genre movie, despite the fact that South Africa doesn't have a strong history in making films (at least not at the time). It's set at the slums of Johannesburg and follows a couple of days in the life of a young criminal, whose life is about to change, due to some unforeseen events. The movie does a good job at capturing the hard life of poor and abandoned youngsters, who basically have no other choice than to devote their lives to crime, in order to survive. No, I admit that this is definitely not the strongest or most violent genre movies you will ever see but I feel that the movie was perhaps going for a more human and personal story instead, which still worked out well. It manages to make its main character a likable one, even though he does some bad stuff in this movie. It ultimately is a movie about redemption, which is a theme that often works out well for a movie of this sort.The only real problem I had with this movie was that it didn't always felt very organic. It's build up- and looks like a realistic movie but some of the developments in it aren't really all that convincing. Sometimes the movie even feels forced and as a viewer you simple have to take some stuff for granted. The way the main character slowly but steadily started to change worked out fine and interesting at first but after a while it started to speed things up and suddenly it didn't felt all that convincing anymore. This of course got worse toward its end but luckily the movie doesn't make the mistake to become a sappy or melodramatic one, so it's all still perfectly acceptable to watch.And it overall really remains a well shot movie. It has a good look and atmosphere to it and the story is getting told in a pleasant pace. It never gets a slow movie to watch and there basically is always something happening in it. With its 90 minutes it is a bit of a short movie but this actually works in its own advantage, I felt and thought.It's also one of those movies in which the characters seem to be played by non-professionals, which was actually also the case, for most part. Most of the actors in this movie had no experience at all, prior to this movie, including Presley Chweneyagae, who plays the lead role. Yes, it truly does add to the overall realistic feeling of the movie. All of the performances feel very natural, as if they are portraying true persons, instead of just movie characters.Simply a really good, involving and likable genre movie, that is definitely not without its flaws though but don't let that stop you from watching it.8/10 http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

'Tsotsi' is set in Johannesburg, South Africa and follows six days in the life of one man, Tsotsi. Following an argument with a fellow gang member, Tsotsi storms off into the night and steals a car. However, he soon discovers that the car contains a baby, and this baby changes his life.This is an excellent story of redemption and has been superbly acted and directed. The only thing that I don't like about it is that it is a little bit blunt - as I normally watch Hollywood films this film was a little bit shocking in places - however I must say that I didn't find the dog scene shocking like some people. In my opinion, the scene actually showing Boston being physically sick was worse than the dog scene - the dog doesn't even look like its back is broken.Some people complain that the final scene is not decisive enough but I think that it is one of the films strengths - it leaves it up to you to decide what happens to Tsotsi.I think that this is a good film and I would recommend it - although if you are squeamish or really love animals it may not be the film for you.