Rating of
3/4
Italy's Other Mafia:
gideon43 - wrote on 05/26/10
Billed as an expose of the Naples Mafia (the Camorra) and based on a controversial bestselling book, Gomorra is a superb gangster movie in the mould of "City Of God".
Unflinching, brutal and incredibly powerful, this is a compelling and totally authentic look at a society dominated by corruption and violence.
As realistic as any documentary, Gomorra doesn't desensitise or glamorise the mob rule prevalent in this movie, it shows it as a fearful, unsentimental and excessively dangerous place to be.
No heroes, no villains, just ordinary people caught up in a web of an urban underworld there is no escape from...
