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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Mar 13, 2011
Pros: Acting, direction, themes
Cons: None
Summary: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu is most known for his more recent (aka more American) work such as Babel and 21 Grams, but one title that may be getting overlooked is his first film from 2000 called Amores Perros, which does not mean ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 10, 2012
Pros: Comprehensiveness of director's outlook; quality of filming; varitey of the characters; authentic Mexican atmosphere
Cons: The plot is quite sophisticated and sometimes hard to follow.
Summary: The work of the Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu can be certainly considered as a comprehensive, global outlook on the humanity. Most of his film show a chaotic macroworld that consists of numerous human beings, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 10, 2011
Pros: Great concept, realistic, intriguing, strong characters
Cons: Some timing issues, felt somewhat incomplete.
Summary: Amores Perros is a Mexican film by Director Alejandro Gonzales Inarritu. The film details three love stories that intersect at a brutal car crash. The title is sort of a play on words. "Love is a Btch" provides some insight into ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 12, 2009
Pros: Striking original screenplay and intelligent direction
Cons: Graphic display of dog fighting, slow middle segment
Summary: Amores Perros was the 2000 debut for Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu. It was also the debut for writer Guillermo Arriaga and the two teamed up to develop their own signature style which would continue through 21 Grams ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 4, 2004
Pros: Colorful characters, clever film structure, plenty of kinetic energy
Cons: No real emotional payoff
Summary: Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu certainly set himself ambitious goals for his debut film Amores Perros, released in 2000, especially considering that his prior professional experience had been mostly as a disc jockey. It ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 5, 2003
Pros: Prieto's work behind the camera, Bernal and Echevarría's work in front
Cons: Not as harrowing as I expected, much too long for so little payoff
Summary: "Amores Perros" begins with an abstract shot of black asphalt, violently screaming past the camera, intersected by a white road line. It is an image we will see several more times throughout the film, as we will also revisit the fateful car crash that ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 10, 2002
Pros: Mexican Film, Action, Intensity. Penetration of the inner Soul.
Cons: For some people it might be too long.
Summary: By my title I have said most of it, I love this movie.. it is my favorite movie of all times.
The way it starts, the way the Director (Gonzales Inarritu) penetrates into your soul with the dialoge, sound, visual effects, etc, etc, etc... is simply ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 7, 2002
Pros: Excellent foreign film with a neo-noir taste.
Cons: None that were too obvious.
Summary: Amorres Perros combines three loosely tied story lines that eventually all come together. First we have a restless youth struggling to make it with his poor family, secondly we have a rich executive leading a double life with a model, and finally we ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 24, 2002
Pros: Brains, Nerve, Energy
Cons: none
Summary: From the first gun, almost literally, Amores Perros drops us into a car chase that hatches, haunts and invents the rest of the film.
We don't know the people rushing through the streets of Mexico City, or why one set wants to kill the other ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 17, 2002
Pros: Beautifully made, haunting, thought provoking
Cons: Violent
Summary: I can't possibly give a recommendation worthy of this great film. It is one of the few Mexican films I have seen besides "Like Water for Chocolate" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien." I have all the Mexican films I have seen thus far. Anyway, Amor es Perros is ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 6, 2002
Pros: stylish, emotive, deep, dark, first-rate Mexican filmmaking.
Cons: some dog lovers may disapprove
Summary: Amores Perros’s frenzied beginnings are tantamount to the film’s narrative concerns as a whole, seemingly unconcerned with building upon his audience’s expectations Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu propels us straight into the action as two ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Feb 16, 2002
Pros: An obviously fictional, but realistic depiction of life.
Cons: The film could have been longer.
Summary: The first time I saw Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's debut film, at an 11a.m. screening, I knew it was a great picture. The film ran a whopping two hours and a half, yet time seemed to have sped by. But Perros isn't edited like an MTV video. The movie, a ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 9, 2002
Pros: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrito directs this Pulp Fiction-esque story with style, flair and gritty realism.
Cons: After the raw power of the first story, the final two come up a short.
Summary: The title of this Tarantino-esque Mexican film, a recent nominee for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar (it lost to Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), roughly translates into Love is a B---- and film certainly illustrates this concept, telling three ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 1, 2002
Pros: a great drama movie
Cons: three hours long
Summary: In amores perros director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu brings a well designed plot with interesting characters and great acting. The setting is in Mexico City present day. In the movie there are three short stories that all center around a car crash. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 21, 2001
Pros: Very realistic, similar to Pulp Fiction.
Cons: Long Film Running
Summary: This film is a tripytch of stories of dog owners in Mexico City. Octavio(Gael Garcia Bernal) attempts to make enough money fighting the family dog to run off with his brother's abused wife; Daniel(Alvarro Guerro), a wealthy businessman leaves his ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 3, 2001
Pros: Great performances, characterizations
Cons: Second story seems out of place; a bit overlong
Summary: Amores Perros is roughly translated as “Love’s a B***h,” although I would argue a more appropriate and better translated title is “Dog Lovers.” Of course, that title has an obvious way to be misinterpreted but try to think about it outside of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 30, 2001
Pros: Bold, expansive cinema
Cons: Runs long, could use some editing for time
Summary: Mexico City's grimy barrio streets house the poor and downtrodden. Octavio, a slim and handsome young man, is forced to pimp his husky Rottweiler as a fighting dog, because he has no money and no future. Of course, things get complicated...
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 28, 2001
Pros: Good Locations and Visuals.
Cons: Unlikable characters, predictable ending, and an overlong running time.
Summary: This one looked great. The plot concerns three different tales of losing something you love.
Story One concerns Octavio, a slacker sort of guy in love with Susanna, his brother's wife. Octavio's brother, Ramiro, is one evil guy. ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Sep 13, 2001
Pros: Great mixture of love adventure drama and action.
Cons: Maybe The director was inspired a little from the movie Pulp Fiction.
Summary: AMORES PERROS begins when three cars collide in a terrible accident on a rainy night in Mexico City. From there, both the the consequences of the crash and the lives of the passengers in each car become the subjects of the film.
Long years ago all ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Aug 28, 2001
Pros: fresh, innovative filmmaking, good cast
Cons: tries to cover too much ground
Summary: “Amores perros” is really three shorts rolled into one (slightly overlong) film, linked together rather niftily (but I won’t go into the details of the really good transitions lest I spoil the fun of potential viewers).
The centerpiece, the ... read more
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