Amores Perros (2000)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 102 | Rotten: 9
The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
Average Rating: 7.7/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 33 | Rotten: 1
The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
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Three stories of life along the margins in Mexico City converge in this inventive thriller. Octavio is sharing an apartment with his brother, which leads to a serious problem when he falls in love with Susanna, his sister-in-law. Octavio and Susanna want to run away together, but Octavio has no money. He does, however, know a man who stages dog fights, and he volunteers his dog Cofi for the next round of fights. Cofi bravely rises to the occasion, but the dog's success in the ring leads to a
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Solidly engaging, supersized 2000 Mexican drama.
Top CriticOne of the most honored and most expertly articulated Mexican films of recent years.
Recalling Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction - but edgier than both - this is a hell of a first film. For all its bonecrunching savagery, it's also a fundamentally moral work.
It's good and good-looking and features one of the best soundtracks in years ... but it's also slick and schematic, weak on feeling and overly indebted to Tarantino.
Inarritu's talent may be derivative, but it's applied to a setting he knows well and whose vibrancy he's keen to convey.
It's a truly prodigious piece of work, resembling a career summation far more than a maiden voyage.
Screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga and director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu exert such control over the story that even a cute doggie disappearance develops into a toilet-trained take on "The Telltale Heart." Warts and all, "Amores Perros" is love, actually.
Dozens of shoddy imitators have done nothing to disguise the wit of its narrative construction.
... it is a hyperviolent movie against violence; a graphic portrayal of infidelity in the name of marriage; a tale of murderous sibling rivalry in the name of family.
Amores Perros signals the bold, audacious, fiercely human and ultra-violent feature directorial debut of Inarritu, a gifted Mexican director bound to make a mark on international cinema.
Gonzalez Inarritu's sinfully enjoyable epic roars in on a wave of blood, gunshots and dog barks.
It is that rarest of features that shows a deep understanding of people, truly cinematic storytelling technique and brilliantly choreographed fight and chase scenes.
A harrowing, powerful and often disturbing movie about three seemingly unrelated stories that collide after one horrific car accident in Mexico City.
Seemingly uneven, Questionably overlong, Indisputably intriguing
It is a raw, intermittently brilliant film that heralds a sort of renaissance in Mexican film.
Astonishingly powerful debut film from director Inarritu - brilliantly shot, superbly acted and deeply heartfelt, this is one of the best films of the year.
A good and extremely ambitious first effort.
Fresh, shocking, violent, romantic, profane and profound, Amores Perros is a revelation, a jolt of cinematic power and a bracing act of faith.
The biggest strength of Amores Perros is its display of humanity at its worst when it is driven by primal attachments.
Directed with energy and ferocity by eye-opening newcomer Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu.
Amores Perros es una cinta capaz de pegarnos intensamente en la mirada pero también en el espíritu.
Audience Reviews for Amores Perros
Super Reviewer
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's films never surpassed this, his first effort. An extraordinarily well-told story, Amores Perros reaches the Altman Standard for intersecting stories. Linked by the themes of love and dogs and love of dogs, each story is compelling in its own way, especially the final chapter, which takes advantage of a phenomenal performance by Emilio Echeverria.
What I found disappointing was the ending of the second story, which seemed to come to a depressing conclusion without substance. The same can be said of the first story's ending, but the final moments of the film, which conclude the third story, make up for many of the film's deficiencies as a whole.
Overall, Amores Perros is a fantastic debut for a rightfully internationally acclaimed filmmaker.
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Foreign Titles
- Amores Perros - Von Hunden und Menschen (DE)
- Amores Perros (Love's A Bitch) (UK)
