After all the build-up, a disappointment, cliched and predictable.
Just a novelty being a Bolly-Holly hybrid. The unalloyed love story
carries it for sheer energy, but it has no real resonance beyond the
archetype. Goodies and baddies and kids running around trying to stay
alive. And for a gritty look at the life force animating the
underclass facing impossible odds, the Brazilian "City of God" is in a
whole other league. Makes you realize how real and genuine something
like Truffaut's Small Change was, saccharine as it may have been it
wasn't steamrollered by the same old hollywood template, as this one
was. Liked the dancing for the end credits, though–nice bollywood
touch.