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Amores Perros

Amores Perros

2000
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 34m
A bold, intensely emotional, and ambitious story of lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. (Lion Gate Films)

Amores Perros

2000
Drama, Suspense/Thriller
2h 34m
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Rated 11 Feb 2010
35
19th
Over-praised. A contrived and heavy-handed soap opera with an over-reliance on cheap sentiment. And, in spite of what passes for "grittiness", as the film progresses it strays farther and farther from any kind of realism, betraying a falseness that lies at its core. Whatever meagre cleverness is required to interweave a few stories, the result lacks genuine significance, coming across as little more than a calling card to Hollywood who, in their wisdom, did in fact come calling.
Rated 29 Oct 2008
70
71st
The first part of Iñárritus Life sucks-trilogy is also the best one. However it is not the masterpiece everyone says. The film is a long journey through a lot of sad stories. I do not mind tragic tales. But if you do not include some sort of contrasting emotions, the sad parts do not engage. And by the way the connection between the stories is nothing but a gimmick. Just like in Babel it is just a plot tool to combine the different parts.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
89
92nd
Brutal, visceral, gut-wrenching. Very intense film.
Rated 18 Jun 2010
91
94th
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's beautiful and emotional tale of intertwinable stories on the hard streets of Mexico City is one of the most powerful films of the 00's.
Rated 05 Jul 2007
90
85th
This movie does not fuck around. Except for that part where the dog is trapped under the apartment floor; it fucked around for a while there. But then it paid that part off well and stopped fucking around again. The movie is brilliantly directed and written, and harsh as hell. I was reminded of Los olvidados at times, even though they're very different films in many respects.
Rated 27 Mar 2024
81
78th
Cleverly thinking of a review that merges the downtrodden romances of these stories with the focus on their canine acquaintances, and all while not understanding a single word of Spanish: Love's a bitch! I'm a genius!
Rated 08 Jul 2009
93
97th
Raw, brutal storytelling at its best. Innaritu's first, and arguably best film.
Rated 04 Mar 2009
20
44th
None of the three tales is very engaging, and none gains much by their merger -- besides bulk. (Two and a half hours' worth.) But you can see why the filmmaker has been likened to Tarantino: a less daunting benchmark than, say, Faulkner.
Rated 21 Jul 2007
92
94th
Depressing in a good way, if that makes sense.
Rated 17 Oct 2023
33
22nd
shallow, long and boring, i hated all the characters, and it's offensively ugly, peak early 00's tackiness.
Rated 30 Dec 2015
9
89th
'Amores Perros' tells three different stories, all superficially connected by a car accident. However, they are all also connected on a more substantial level through their themes of violence and loyalty (a theme visually conveyed through the prominence of dogs throughout the picture.) The end result is a powerful and impressive first outing by director Inarritu.
Rated 15 Dec 2012
86
90th
first of a trilogy followed by 21 Grams and Babel by the same director. very good movie indeed. I just read about the name which is translated into something like: to love's a bitch. اما در فارسي اسمش به عشق سگي ترجمه شده است.
Rated 30 Jun 2011
85
87th
epic in scope. may not be the most cohesive of plots, and there are missteps here and there when it comes to pacing, but inarritu has an audacious vision for this film and it really shines through.
Rated 28 Mar 2011
89
89th
I loved the construction of the film. I especially enjoyed the last section. It felt very much like watching the actual drama in life but with more bleak and terrible problems. review of myself: This is possibly the most pretentious I'm-smart-and-artistic review I've written and I shall leave it up so you may be witness to my shame. I suck.
Rated 12 Feb 2011
45
33rd
LOOK AT HOW CREATIVE AND DEPRESSING I AM! But really, it's hard to like a movie when half the characters are borderline retarded and none of the plots are actually tied together that great. Pulp Fiction of Mexico? Fuck that.
Rated 25 Sep 2010
89
97th
Fairly depressing but still interesting.
Rated 24 Sep 2010
26
0th
Just a sickening, disheartening film that hits you over the head with contradictory and obvious messages about "mankind" and how connected we are to each other. A real awful piece of shit.
Rated 11 Feb 2010
40
14th
In the second story, when the magazine editor said he couldn't afford to redo the floor if he smashed it up to look for his girlfriend's dog, why didn't the model, who was clearly very successful, offer to pay to redo the floor, if she cared so much about finding the dog, which was, after all, her dog?
Rated 05 Jun 2009
87
93rd
Very strong story dedicated to dogs and their owners. They said in the movie that the dogs and their owners start to look each other. And that happens in the movie. Episodes slide nicley together, but the strongest is the first one. The second one is pretty easy, but the last wraps up the whole movie nicely though the very end could be better done. I liked a lot small details which set the timing for each episode.
Rated 30 May 2009
98
98th
Amores Perros was the First Movie I watched by Inarritu which deeply moved me.Sometimes shocking sometimes just beautiful.Hard to put in one Genre, but that doesn't matter at all. It is a great Movie !
Rated 27 Nov 2008
79
61st
Highly overrated. Though the film starts off at an excellent pace, the length eventually begins to bog down on the audience. Too many scenes are far too drawn out, and the second two narratives seem superfluously tacked on to the dog-fighting story. Though there are some amazing scenes and the acting is all around top-notch, there is something poignantly hollow about this cinematic exercise.
Rated 11 Feb 2008
75
72nd
Often too uncomfortable for me to enjoy, but it packs a visceral punch that leaves the viewer reeling.
Rated 03 Feb 2008
92
94th
Great film. Unique(*) with one amzing story. Told in a not-liniar way , wich was perfect for the movie. You easily can see the refering to Tarantino ( espacially openingscene ). Sometimes dark and emotional. (*)To bad he used the same format in his other films after this one
Rated 31 Dec 2007
94
86th
What a great debut. Inarritu has seems to keep retreading the structure, but it works really well here, and all 3 stories are equally painful and melancholy. The incident that ties the three together is shocking each time it's shown. Not for big fans of dogs, but I'd recommend it to anyone else.
Rated 16 Sep 2007
65
49th
well made, but not very involving
Rated 11 Jul 2007
5
96th
Brutal, brutal pessimistic film. Not something you want to watch when you're already having a bad day.
Rated 09 Apr 2007
88
81st
An intensely emotional tale of three different groups of people interwoven through the story of their dogs and their tragic lives. Excellently crafted and brilliantly acted, it's a wonderful treat in every respect.
Rated 27 Feb 2007
96
97th
Slightly labourious to get through at first, but that pays off more as the movie goes on.
Rated 01 Dec 2006
99
95th
One of my favourite films ever. Brilliantly shot, it gives you a perfect picture of Mexico City. Features awesome and moving performances by everyone involved. Inarritus masterpiece.
Rated 23 Sep 2023
80
79th
This is a bleak and gritty film which isn't for the squeamish, more specifically (primarily) dog lovers I'd say. A tough watch. There are plot twists and I suppose its somewhat thoughtful. A film about poverty, depseration and hope.
Rated 13 Jul 2023
86
88th
Squarely in the "intersecting lives of unconnected characters" genre, Amores Perros is one of the better movies of this type. Unlike some of them, it keeps it's stories rather limited (there are three) and all three are compelling with interesting, well played characters. Each of the stories probably could have carried its own interesting 2 hour movie. Some aspects are a bit difficult to watch if you're a dog lover like me, but based on some research it appears there was no true harm done.
Rated 28 Jun 2023
89
90th
audiovisual 86 acting 90 overall feeling 90 avg 89
Rated 14 May 2023
85
90th
Not sure if the structure adds anything, but the three stories told, although only loosely narratively, are intertwined thematically and interesting even as stand alone takes.
Rated 11 May 2022
70
76th
good movie
Rated 09 Apr 2022
26
11th
Mexican soap-opera.
Rated 03 Apr 2022
85
89th
28.03.2022, Umraniye İstanbul
Rated 03 Oct 2021
92
96th
Intense and hard too watch. A movie about human suffering.
Rated 23 Sep 2021
80
58th
The beginnings of love is just the start of our deterioration.
Rated 21 Aug 2021
80
78th
Tough to rate. I was very uncomfortable throughout the movie, and I'm not particularly a dog lover. The stories felt like they were going somewhere but never quite reached an "aha" moment with the all-unsympathetic characters. It does, however, excel in setting a hopeless mood like a hyped-up noir, dizzyingly careening to the (literal) car wreck.
Rated 06 Aug 2021
55
8th
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Rated 15 Jul 2021
95
98th
16.07.2021 Kartal
Rated 12 Jun 2021
7
50th
felt a bit long
Rated 11 Apr 2020
83
83rd
83.1
Rated 29 Mar 2020
70
54th
Susana: "You and your plans. You know what my grandmother used to say? If you want to make God laugh... tell Him your plans."
Rated 02 Jan 2020
85
37th
Karma, iyilik kötülük çatışması ve balık Ayhan'ın güçlü bir yan rol olması. Ve 2 sene önce yavuz hocamızın önerdiği film.
Rated 06 Jun 2019
80
52nd
Essential viewing for average filmgoers but true enthusiasts won't be impressed by this multilinear storyline film. Once you see it, remains saw.
Rated 14 Mar 2019
8
92nd
Powerful, intense and thought provoking.
Rated 28 Jan 2019
60
3rd
bad end
Rated 25 Aug 2018
80
54th
Don't remember much about this movie but I remember liking it.
Rated 18 Apr 2018
96
97th
Amazing movie !
Rated 27 Jan 2018
80
77th
Not gonna lie, the middle section hit me the most
Rated 18 Dec 2017
97
42nd
My favorite story was the first one, I like that actor. But all the stories and conflicts were so creative. dogs getting hurt was difficult but the story kept me watching. plus gael is cute in this movie
Rated 26 Aug 2017
69
17th
This is yet another over-rated movie that involves multiple sub-plots linked together by a common thread. Unlike some better executions (Crash, Babel) where the sub-plots come together in a climatic fashion, there is no such excitement here. I am no expert but I couldn't even see how the three sub-plots were related besides a dog playing central role in all three of them.
Rated 10 Jul 2017
60
69th
What a brutal film. If you experience shock and get emotional when an animal is harmed in a film, then you might want to skip this. We spent most of the movie worried about how the actual dogs were treated in the filming, it detracted from the actual story line. Turns out they were just tranquilized, but it was tough to watch either way. Also, if you're into sentimental Hollywood endings, you'll hate this too! I'll have to re-watch it but, I think this Inarritu kid is going places!
Rated 12 Mar 2017
77
32nd
Good movie, though very brutal and depressing. hardly a joyfull moment in it.
Rated 17 Feb 2017
59
66th
Gloomy anthology film involving lots and lots of dogs. Oh, and some people all coping with loss.
Rated 06 Aug 2016
70
64th
Good but not as amazing as I expected given the high rankings and gushing reviews. Of the three loosely connected stories the first was by far the most interesting.
Rated 21 Feb 2016
15
82nd
Star Rating: ★★★★
Rated 17 Oct 2015
73
64th
Love is feverish here, with all the familiar symptoms of the disease, so no problems recognising. It is also sentimental, soppy, vain and plainly stupid, which still goes with the definition. But then, does it hit you like something extraordinary - yeah.. not really no. The separate stories do not connect to the grand finale, the aftermath is somewhere out there and the overall experience is fading away from my memory as I'm writing these words. What was it all about?
Rated 08 May 2015
76
80th
Has some really gut wrenching drama. I think it's an almost-great film, but it loses steam in the middle act and the score really bugged me. That these are the only growing pains for a first-time director speaks volumes about what he's capable of.
Rated 05 May 2015
67
66th
Attempts to uncover that which is universal amongst humans, a common theme in the work of Inarritu.
Rated 31 Mar 2015
90
95th
It punches you in the gut, and after that it punches you in the gut a little bit more. A powerful movie.
Rated 29 Mar 2015
75
86th
3.77/5
Rated 18 Jan 2015
90
89th
It's not really, as it has been described, a "Mexican Pulp Fiction", it just uses a *slightly* similar parallel story lines construct to link 3 short films together into a satisfying, though somewhat disjointed film. The 3 segments don't feel very well integrated, but the power of these segments on their own is enough to ignore it. The second segment in particular is a very well acted, near-painful to watch piece of cinema.
Rated 06 Jan 2015
81
66th
Much like real life, the movie suffers once there are fewer dogs involved.
Rated 10 Dec 2014
78
63rd
Started good and became lackluster as it progressed, mainly because the unnecessarily long melodramatic soap opera scenes.
Rated 08 Dec 2014
85
87th
Dog genocide: the movie.
Rated 03 Dec 2014
88
95th
The third and even more so the second story are not as great as the first part, which keeps it from being really great overall.
Rated 12 Nov 2014
81
83rd
Take it as a straight faced drama and you'll probably be disappointed but as a visceral melodrama with exploitation edge it's pretty damn fantastic. Kinda up itself but in a palatable way.
Rated 03 Jan 2014
92
80th
The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
Rated 15 Dec 2013
97
94th
Powerful multi-tale feature grabs you by the throat from the first frame and never lets go; it's that rare film which is blatantly ostentatious in its storytelling, yet never less than totally confident and assured as far as the direction it is travelling. Bernal is as terrific as always, though its Echevarría's wonderful performance as a 'ghost' haunting all 3 stories which really stands out. Brilliant, brutal and in its way quite haunting; perhaps not recommended for dog lovers!
Rated 28 Apr 2013
65
10th
Who honestly cares about the freakin dog stuck under the house??? ... "Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy Ritchy ...."........ SHUT DA F* UP!!!!
Rated 21 Jan 2013
85
83rd
85.33.
Rated 19 Jan 2013
95
83rd
Nice way of telling 3 stories in one
Rated 08 Nov 2012
90
98th
* Casting, Acting : 8 * Script : 8 * Directing, Aura : 10 * Ease of Viewing : 9 * Naked Eye : 10
Rated 09 Oct 2012
75
75th
a very well-made piece of movie. I especially enjoyed the second part; the dog under the floor played a very beautiful and sorrowful harmony with the wounded woman. while I thoroughly enjoyed the scenes with the third man stalking his victims along with the music, I found his part to be completely unnecessary. pacing as well as length were a bitch, too.
Rated 28 Sep 2012
85
95th
It was brutal, it was emotional, it was unpredictable. Plus it had a bunch of great actors, a brilliant screenplay and a very talented director. I don't have much else to say about it, except that I enjoyed it a lot and I recommend it to everyone.
Rated 22 Sep 2012
88
87th
It is truly a great film, worth watching over and over. What else can be said? Its got top notch acting, cinematography, the whole thing.
Rated 27 Aug 2012
80
90th
Plot 16/20 Fiction 16/20 Casting/Acting 16/20 Worldbuilding 16/20 Entertainment 16/20
Rated 17 Aug 2012
80
94th
Suffers from the fact that the only semi-likeable character in the film - Gael Garcia's - is featured in the first part of the film. Otherwise way too prolonged, and without any characters to care about, it quickly becomes a bore. Although a masterfully constructed one.
Rated 13 Aug 2012
3
45th
It's unfortunate that such a long movie expends most of its energy in the first hour. Otherwise it's pretty good, and often difficult to watch.
Rated 23 Jul 2012
86
76th
Its easy for me to lose interest in dramas unless they are really worth it. Amores Perros was definitely WORTH it. Very interesting way in which multiple plots weave together to give us that unpredictable and exciting finish.
Rated 25 Jun 2012
45
28th
About dogs in holes and holes in dogs
Rated 21 Apr 2012
86
91st
Even though it is quite depressing I still somehow enjoyed the hell out of it. Three three stories are all interesting and tragic in their own way and I absolutely loved the soundtrack.
Rated 04 Apr 2012
80
85th
Gritty, powerful and cleverly structured, "Amores Perros" testifies to director Iñárritu's prowess as well as to the talents of his cast.
Rated 10 Mar 2012
75
62nd
Not a bad movie by any stretch, but I can't help but feel a little bit disappointed. The film was hard to connect to (not sure if the language barrier contributed to that) and was not as good as Inarritu's 21 Grams or other non-linear films. I did like the 3rd segment though, and felt that without this story about a lonely hitman, the film would have been far worse without out it as the first two segments were just kind of average. For me, it lacked the performances that made 21 Grams so good.
Rated 10 Feb 2012
70
35th
The subject made me feel bad :(
Rated 29 Jan 2012
97
92nd
Long but very well paced and shot, as a friend said "realistic in a good way"
Rated 18 Dec 2011
86
94th
Really makes you want to hug your dog
Rated 07 Dec 2011
95
98th
Utterly brilliant! Completely worthy of all it's praise. If you like films where various stories intertwine then this is an absolute must. The acting, the plot and pretty much everything about this film was gritty and realistic. You do need patience with this film, but one I definitely recommend people to see.
Rated 29 Nov 2011
80
63rd
I could have went without the dog violence.
Rated 06 Jul 2011
95
98th
Simply amazing. A film about our relationships with dogs that manages not to get saccharine.
Rated 18 May 2011
100
75th
hard to imagine someone doesn't like this movie. it's a very simple example of true nature of living.
Rated 18 May 2011
92
83rd
The brutality of Amores Perros may be difficult to watch at times, but this intense, gritty film packs a hard wallop.
Rated 15 May 2011
73
44th
Contains some powerfully effective scenes shot with great care and craft, and those were enough to keep me interested. But the whole is less than the sum of its parts. I was left with a feeling of "what's the point?" Why did it take so long to get where it was finally going? And where was that exactly?
Rated 18 Apr 2011
70
68th
Well, points for worthy
Rated 25 Mar 2011
62
21st
yasak ask, ihanet, tetikci, banka soygunu, köpekler, (biraz fatmagüle benziyor abisinin esine asik olan bir velet var. yengesini kacirmanin pesinde. köpek dövüstürüyor ve parayi yengeye veriyor. bir gün yenge gidiyor... veletin bir gün köpegi dövüste kursunlaniyor velette arabaya atliyor kovalamaca vs. trafik kazasi kazada ünlü bir manken yaralaniyor sonra onun hikayesi onunda bir köpegi var vs. bunallti yani)
Rated 02 Mar 2011
68
9th
Didn't really feel this one. I don't think it earned the right to be so miserable.
Rated 22 Feb 2011
85
59th
Nothing soft. Inarritu style, hardcore.
Rated 14 Feb 2011
30
78th
"Give me Los Olvidados instead, but this pumped telenovela is very much the film Kieslowski would have made had he followed Buñuel's lead and gone to Mexico." - Ed Gonzalez

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