patomartinezfgo "Amores Perros" is a rare breed (no pun intended) in Mexican film. It is filled with amazing performances and incredible dialogue. The movie contains three story lines that are interconnected by one event (This is why I like to call it the Mexican Pulp Fiction). The three stories have very different subjects but the three of them are amazing in their own way and somehow compliment each other.I love the way Iñarritu (who later directed "Birdman" and "The Revenant") gives out some backstory of the characters without having to literally explain and let the actors and camera do its work.In my opinion, the movie gets better each act. Starting with the first act about a poor and disjointed family, moving on with the story of a model that got injured, and finally ending with the story of a homeless man with a very interesting turn of events.The third act is the greatest in my opinion because the characters have so much more backstory and interesting pasts.I do not give this film a 10/10 because I do feel that the ending, although very strong for the third act, does not give a closure to the second and first act specially, that is left kind of open. Still, you should definitely see this film.

Johnny H. As a dog lover, this film was a hard watch during some of the scenes, but man did this film give the dogs honest character not only for themselves but their owners, which is the purpose of the story; we see the world revolving around the animals rather than on a human protagonist and how this dog-eat-dog world is always changing.Amores Perros is well written and directed, but this film is one of the biggest heavy- hitters I've ever watched. It makes you feel uncomfortable a lot of the time and you get stressed with the characters when the story calls for it. This film shows just some of the everyday chaos people can go through in Mexico City, and the dogs change with the people who own them. The people are only as good or as corrupt as the people who care for them; keeping that in mind, Amores Perros makes for an impactful experience that doesn't leave the viewers unaffected.This film is simply worth a watch. It's not a rosie-painted Hollywood flick; this is international art-house cinema that has a lot to say about human circumstance and city life of the underprivileged.

KobusAdAstra This is a remarkable first film by Alejandro González Iñárritu, an incredibly well-crafted film that initially seems fragmented, but where the pieces of the puzzle fit perfectly once finished.We are presented with three seemingly unconnected stories; a young man involved with dog fighting in the seedy districts of Mexico City who lusts after his sister-in-law, an executive who cheats on his wife and later divorces her and buys his lover and her dog a luxury apartment, and lastly a scruffy dog-loving bum who clearly has a troubled past.Initially the only link between these stories seems to be the protagonists' love of dogs. However, slowly the connections between these three stories become clear through the director's clever use of flashbacks. The way the three stories interconnect is ingenious and as the story dramatically unfolded it left me stunned.This riveting film kept me glued to my seat and that says a lot; it is quite long at two and a half hours.I found the performances by all the actors outstanding, the hand-held cinematography some of the best I have ever seen, whilst the pulsating musical score that fitted the mood of the film was just perfect.I rarely give a full score to films, but in this case I award it an outstanding 10/10.

Johan Dondokambey The movie serves the viewers with three sub-stories which don't really correlate. It opens up strongly with a sequence that serves as an anchor for all those sub stories. But the anchor isn't the only congruency point this movie uses. There are other quite meaningless rendezvous where the focus characters, who don't really know each other, meet and don't really share any line of dialog. But those smaller rendezvous serve well as time anchors, helping the viewers understand the timings of each scene. The stories also come very strong. Focusing on different backgrounds for each story, They each reveal themselves full of varied surprises and twists, although some of them are fairly predictable. The acting overall is just another decent effort. It sure is not really this movie's strongest point. But again, the story and the general story flow alone should suffice to make this movie good entertainment.