Robert Abele
The Los Angeles Times
The story of a township boy-turned-slumlord millionaire, "Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema" is a South African crime epic with plenty of vigor, violence and vengeance, as one might expect from a rags-to-riches tale cut from the same cloth as "City of God," "Goodfellas" and "Scarface." But writer-director Ralph Ziman deserves props for his skewed take on private enterprise post-apartheid, when a bright, struggling man like Lucky Kunene (played by Jafta Mamabolo as a teen, Rapulana Seiphemo as an adult) can learn how to go from hijacking cars in Soweto to hijacking Johannesburg tenements from negligent white landowners. [...]
di Robert Abele, articolo completo (1417 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 11 giugno 2010
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