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This is frankly pretty cliched stuff. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
This is frankly pretty cliched stuff.
Peter Bradshaw
Despite the fresh setting and fine performances, Yildirim's screenplay is just too familiar to really admire. Instead of violent and ruthless Italians, we get violent and ruthless Turks. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Despite the fresh setting and fine performances, Yildirim's screenplay is just too familiar to really admire. Instead of violent and ruthless Italians, we get violent and ruthless Turks.
Cosmo Landesman
Something more than just a thriller - a film as accurate and hard-nosed as it needs to be. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 3/5
Something more than just a thriller - a film as accurate and hard-nosed as it needs to be.
Rich Cline
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirim's occasionally violent debut feature. Aug 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirim's occasionally violent debut feature.
Wally Hammond
... its uneven blend of social criticism, domestic drama and gangster tragedy illustrates just how difficult it is to capture that distinctive Scarface quality. Sep 26, 2017 | Full Review…
... its uneven blend of social criticism, domestic drama and gangster tragedy illustrates just how difficult it is to capture that distinctive Scarface quality.
Pamela Jahn
It's hard to take your eyes off Moschitto's bulldog-like antihero - with his dangerous lips and furtive power plays, he makes Vincent Cassel in Mesrine look like Dale Winton's camper twin. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
It's hard to take your eyes off Moschitto's bulldog-like antihero - with his dangerous lips and furtive power plays, he makes Vincent Cassel in Mesrine look like Dale Winton's camper twin.
Tim Robey
Chiko's German boss, Moritz Bleibtreu confirms his reputation as one of Europe's most compelling younger film actors. Aug 24, 2009 | Full Review…
Chiko's German boss, Moritz Bleibtreu confirms his reputation as one of Europe's most compelling younger film actors.
Philip French
Never does the plot deviate from its almost pre-ordained course and as we witness the rise and fall of Chiko not once is there a surprise in store to ramp up the interest. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Never does the plot deviate from its almost pre-ordained course and as we witness the rise and fall of Chiko not once is there a surprise in store to ramp up the interest.
Tim Evans
The film has little new to offer but Ozgür Yildirim directs with assurance. Aug 24, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film has little new to offer but Ozgür Yildirim directs with assurance.
Allan Hunter
The feature debut of writer/director Özgür Yildirim, Chiko may offer a familiar account of ambition, excess and revenge in the narcotics biz, but it's executed with assurance and acted with force. Aug 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The feature debut of writer/director Özgür Yildirim, Chiko may offer a familiar account of ambition, excess and revenge in the narcotics biz, but it's executed with assurance and acted with force.
Tom Dawson
The final scenes simply lack the necessary weight to turn Chiko into something profound, affecting, or entirely memorable. Aug 21, 2009 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
The final scenes simply lack the necessary weight to turn Chiko into something profound, affecting, or entirely memorable.
Mark Ramshaw
Starts in an impressive, genre-subverting manner but then reverts to type a little towards the end. Aug 21, 2009 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
Starts in an impressive, genre-subverting manner but then reverts to type a little towards the end.
Possessed of innate street smarts and a dead-eyed stare, Chiko (Denis Moschitto) dreams of success in the drug trade. His chief liability is combustible best “bro” Tibet (Volkan Ozcan), a blustery fighter who can’t grasp the big picture. Tibet’s mom ...( read more)(Lilay Huser) is undergoing kidney treatments, and the young men chafe at being unable to do more to help her. Setting his sights on a job with violent local drug kingpin and gregarious family man Brownie (Moritz Bleibtreu), Chiko elbows his hapless mule out of the way and earns the formidable task of moving a great deal of weed in a short time. The only caveat: The product must be sold from an apartment, not on the street. When Tibet breaks this rule and is spotted selling at a schoolyard, Brownie’s subsequent discipline --a nail in the foot -- drives a wedge between the two friends that rears its ugly head when Chiko becomes Brownie’s successful cocaine lieutenant and Tibet sinks into a drug-fuelled anger that manifests itself in revenge.
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