Manda Bala (Send a Bullet) Critic Reviews
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There's no denying its grip: It is lurid, fascinating, sickening, and eye-opening.Read the full review
Edgy and provocative but with a weakness for sensationalistic footage.Read the full review
Crammed into a lively 85-minute package delivered with loads of dark humor and cinematic flair, this is a worthy winner of Sundance's Grand Jury prize for documentary.Read the full review
The title is Portuguese for "send a bullet" and the clever American tag line is "the rich steal from the poor; the poor steal the rich."Read the full review
What the film does best is document the lengths to which people are going to protect themselves -- subcutaneous microchips for identification, ever-heavier armor for fancy cars.Read the full review
The subject is huge and worthy, and the film makes a noble effort to embrace some of its complexity.Read the full review
Instead of seriously investigating corruption, money laundering and the buying of politicians, Manda Bala would rather spend its time showing slimy brown frogs slithering over one another as they are dumped from one container into another.Read the full review
Manda Bala is exciting and stylish, and Kohn knows exactly what he wants the movie to say. But he makes most of his points in the first 10 minutes, with disgusting slow-motion frog footage and sound bites from social scientists pointing out how "corruption is what links all other crimes." The rest is just so much show.Read the full review
