Reviews

First of all I'm not American that does not mean i hate Americans or their movies. I was raised with movies that showed that the underdog could win just once and be proud of it.My own country won the European championship.They were the #1 underdog of the whole championship.So am just saying thats OK to make movies about such great victories but in every sport movie i have watched the team always made to the finals and either won (the most cases were like this ) or lost (a new trend that i first saw in Coach Carter).But here this is just a waste of film and time, the U.S. team won 1 match in the 1950 world cup, that was against England who was a superpower i give you that but lost the other two against Spain and Chille.For further information England never made it to the finals,but Spain did(they won against England 1-0).In my opinion this victory is great but not a reason to make a movie out of it.And just a final reflection there have been many underdogs that accomplished something extraordinary in football history none of them made a movie ,this movie is just the American attitude on film "we are the best in everything"

"The Hillz" is a film about a bunch of 4 teenagers being bored in the rich suburbs of L.A. . One of them is a drafted baseball player that just wants out but stays because he is respected.The other is the son of a rich and powerful lawyer and is the most reluctant of the gang the third is an average kid who's complex ed by his height and the fourth Duff is what we call a social case a kid with problems with authority and a big thirst for power and recognition.The movie takes us into their decent from some annoying but generally harmless kids to cold ruthless gang members and drug dealers.And like any other fast rising criminals what comes up must come down and with the same speed but on the way down they pay the cost of being disrespectful, their lives. I think it was a good movie though it was shot in a low quality film ,i think VHS, that gives a cheap feeling to it.There were some continuity gaps and the acting wasn't top notch but was intrigued me was the story of how rich kids from the burbs are bored and how they find entertainment in drugs and violence + the narration was quite good.It isn't a masterpiece but i would like to see it remade with more experienced actors and better directing and maybe enhancing in the personality of all the characters.