One of the most dazzlingly shot films I've ever been wowed by, and sums up racial tension and xenophobia in it's last shot better than most films do in their entirety.

Kassovitz allows the tension to simmer like a master, letting it escalate just below the veneer of the laidback and aimless '90s (encapsulated in Richard Linklater, Larry Clark, and Kevin Smith films) until it has nowhere to go but up. Explosive, gritty, raw, stylized yet naturalistic - you've heard these descriptors again and again but rarely are they this accurate to the experience you will have.

Complex and intriguing as well as voraciously intelligent. I can't quite put my finger on what stopped this being truly great in my opinion, perhaps it was the slightly loose plot? But even so "La Haine" is brilliantly shot and has a great ending and with so much to analyse here it is well worth repeat viewings.

Solid movie. Meanders a bit in the middle, but the ending is just great.

The film was really well made and had a lot of thought provokingness to it, but I don't really like the French, and I don't really like thugs, so I can't say that I really could connect with this film.

Wonderfully stylised, particularly the Spike Lee influences. Brings up a lot of interesting questions. Great ending, too.

all this loud noise... all these distractions

One of my favorite movies of all time. The style. The presentation. The colors. And the russian dude in the urinols.

vincent cassel is cool, and lots of details in the movie too, but overall i think its overrated, just like city of god, would have worked better as a documentary and with a better soundtrack