2008 · action · crime · drama
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema
Directed by Ralph Ziman2h 0m2008
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Our read: Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded action · crime · drama entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured action / crime, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
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