This is frankly pretty cliched stuff.
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08/24/09
Chiko (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:11
Rotten:7
Average Rating:5.9/10
Theatrical Release:21-08-2009
Starring: Denis Moschitto, Moritz Bleibtreu, Fahri Ogun Yardim
Reviews for Chiko
1 - 20 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticIt's hard to take your eyes off Moschitto's bulldog-like antihero - with his dangerous lips and furtive power plays, he makes Vincent Cassel in Mesrine look like Dale Winton's camper twin.
08/24/09
Top CriticDespite the fresh setting and fine performances, Yildirims screenplay is just too familiar to really admire. Instead of violent and ruthless Italians, we get violent and ruthless Turks.
08/24/09
Chiko's German boss, Moritz Bleibtreu confirms his reputation as one of Europe's most compelling younger film actors.
08/24/09
Never does the plot deviate from its almost pre-ordained course and as we witness the rise and fall of Chiko not once is there a surprise in store to ramp up the interest.
08/24/09
The film has little new to offer but Ozgür Yildirim directs with assurance.
08/24/09
Something more than just a thriller a film as accurate and hard-nosed as it needs to be.
08/24/09
Impressive directorial skills, if a trite plotline, are on offer in Turkish-German writer-director Özgür Yildirims occasionally violent debut feature.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe feature debut of writer/director Özgür Yildirim, Chiko may offer a familiar account of ambition, excess and revenge in the narcotics biz, but its executed with assurance and acted with force.
08/21/09
The final scenes simply lack the necessary weight to turn Chiko into something profound, affecting, or entirely memorable.
08/21/09
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08/21/09
Top CriticStarts in an impressive, genre-subverting manner but then reverts to type a little towards the end.
08/21/09
Top CriticThe handsomely grungy photography, the moments of grislier-than-usual violence and the producing participation of film-maker Fatih Akin fail to rescue this moody thug epic from being a cross-Channel cousin to the UKs mod gangster genre.
08/21/09
Too much of its urban grit seems in thrall to American precedents.
08/21/09
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08/20/09
In Özgür Yildirim's vibrant thriller, the exigencies of genre clash with the realities of Germany's urban multiculturalism - but a bland central performance, and a paucity of surprises, hinder its rise to the top of the drug-movie hierarchy.
08/18/09
Top CriticPathiasmeno kai filotimo skinothetiko ntempoyto, poy pashei ap' oles tis astheneies ton ntempoyton: filodoksies poy den kalyptontai ap' tis senariakes baseis kai tis skinothetikes ikanotites toy dimioyrgoy
11/08/08
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10/18/08
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10/18/08
Top CriticA gentle character sketch gradually makes way for a high-energy tale of loyalty and betrayal that is perhaps rife with clichés but works because Yildirim has established his characters properly.
03/24/08
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