Masterful Movie

I wanted to but couldn't!

if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

I'm writing mostly as a reaction to this film's relatively low IMDb rating...i think along with The Tree of Life with its almost shockingly low 6.7 rating, Gomorrah is, literally, the most underrated recent film on here. This documentary style crime mosaic is essential viewing, plain and simple. If you want to get a true sense of what modern organized crime is about, how it operates, how it permeates a particular place and how it effects individuals, look no further. Gomorrah is unflinching, uncompromising, devoid of glamour or conceit, it puts you right into its unforgiving and hopeless milieu. There is no excess narrative fat here, no style for style's sake...it's probably the truest description of an organized crime network i've seen

The movie was extremely chaotic and hard to get a handle on because it keeps jumping from one plot thread to another. There were no characters which you could get invested in. It was also hard to get a read on who was who and was their relation to one another. After a while the whole movie just started to feel boring and exhausting because I didn't have a stake at anything. They really should've focused this movie a lot more on one of the characters through whose eyes we'd see the story unfold. In the end they suddenly shove a bunch of facts about the Camorra crime organization which took me aback. Was this movie really about that stuff? If the director wanted to highlight the chaos, pervasiveness and huge growth of the Camorra, then he should've made a documentary. There were a few effective scenes portraying the brutality and ruthlessness of the Camorra. Those really added to the darkly depressing and nihilistic tone of the film. There were also a lot of scenes about the minutiae of the mob business like people counting money and negotiating between themselves and so on. Why would I be interested in watching characters I don't recognize and care about doing these banal things? How this movie is hailed as a masterpiece by the critics is beyond me.

If your girlfriend or wife wants to take a vacation to Italy rent this. This is the perfect movie that illustrates how cities like Rome and Naples are essentially third-world Europe.Entertainment-wise, this movie is a bit lacking. It barely has any plot. It barely ties anything together, and leaves you, for the majority of its duration, coasting along. It absolutely has nothing on films like 'City of God'. I think this film has garnered more attention than it was probably due.But then again, if you're bored as I was, it is a very average way to pass some time.

An inside look at slices of life you would other wise never know existed.This film details various activities of the mob in Naples. A lot of it is shot around a modern housing complex which has turned into a slum--the buildings are extremely modern and quite interesting looking but are run down low income housing.There are several subplots one concerns the mob disposing of toxic waste (a horrible idea forms in your mind of how much of this actually takes place).Another subplot--the best one--(I agree with other reviewers) is the tailor of a high line garment maker.This film jumps from subplot to subplot. In a couple of them towards the end I was lost and didn't know which subplot the scene belonged to.This film just introduces what the mob in Naples is like and as such should be viewed mostly as a documentary rather than a neatly structured story--even though it is apparently based on a novel.It was interesting ... 5 stars...