Chiko Reviews
August 24, 2009
This is frankly pretty cliched stuff.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 24, 2009
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 21, 2009
The final scenes simply lack the necessary weight to turn Chiko into something profound, affecting, or entirely memorable.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
August 21, 2009
The handsomely grungy photography, the moments of grislier-than-usual violence and the producing participation of film-maker Fatih Akin fail to rescue this moody thug epic from being a cross-Channel cousin to the UK's mod gangster genre.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 21, 2009
Too much of its urban grit seems in thrall to American precedents.
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| Original Score: 2/5
August 18, 2009
In zgr Yildirim's vibrant thriller, the exigencies of genre clash with the realities of Germany's urban multiculturalism - but a bland central performance, and a paucity of surprises, hinder its rise to the top of the drug-movie hierarchy.
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| Original Score: 3/5
November 8, 2008
Pathiasmeno kai filotimo skinothetiko ntempoyto, poy pashei ap' oles tis astheneies ton ntempoyton: filodoksies poy den kalyptontai ap' tis senariakes baseis kai tis skinothetikes ikanotites toy dimioyrgoy
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| Original Score: 2/5