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      Chiko

      2008 1h 32m Crime Drama List
      63% Tomatometer 19 Reviews 51% Audience Score 250+ Ratings A teenager and his best friend look for respect by becoming gangsters. Read More Read Less

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      Peter Bradshaw Guardian This is frankly pretty cliched stuff. Rated: 2/5 Aug 24, 2009 Full Review Tim Robey Daily Telegraph (UK) It'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. Rated: 4/5 Aug 24, 2009 Full Review Cosmo Landesman Times (UK) Despite the fresh setting and fine performances, Yildirim's screenplay is just too familiar to really admire. Instead of violent and ruthless Italians, we get violent and ruthless Turks. Rated: 3/5 Aug 24, 2009 Full Review Pamela Jahn Electric Sheep ... its uneven blend of social criticism, domestic drama and gangster tragedy illustrates just how difficult it is to capture that distinctive Scarface quality. Sep 27, 2017 Full Review Philip French Observer (UK) Chiko's German boss, Moritz Bleibtreu confirms his reputation as one of Europe's most compelling younger film actors. Aug 24, 2009 Full Review Tim Evans Sky Cinema 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. Rated: 2/5 Aug 24, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Audience Member pretty good for low budget. not really origonal at all but the story is good enough to be told more than once. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/26/23 Full Review Audience Member Ein hervorragend inszenierter deutscher Gangsterfilm mit brillianten Gegencharaktären, aber leider mit einem zu durchsichtigem und voraussehbarem Drehbuch. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member Nice filming (has a bit of Sacrifice) but predictable ending. In the beginning of the movie (first 30 mins) I thought this a pretty cliched stuff but actually it is not! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member Chiko (Denis Moschitto) is unemployed, but he wants to be rich. He wants to get out of his Ghetto-life and he wants a bright and shiny future in front of him. His best friend Tibet (Volkan Özcan) leads a life just as hopeless, as Chiko. He needs money, because he wants to buy a kidney on the blackmarket. To safe his mother's life. Chiko is smart and cheeky and he manages to impress Brownie (Moritz Bleibtreu), one of Hamburg's most dangerous drug dealers. Chiko gets the chance to show his skills and he is good in selling drugs...until Tibet fucks everything up. He wants the money for his mother at once. Brownie has his revenge on him. And Chiko, as Tibet's best friend, wants to have his revenge on Brownie...but he agrees on a new deal with Brownie instead, behind Tibet's back. While Chiko is successful, happily in love with Meryem (Reyhan Sahin, a.k.a. Lady Bitch Ray), appreciated by Brownie, and living the life he always wanted; Tibet is down on his luck. Jealousy and despair lead to an evil end of the friendship. If you like the genre, you will sit right with this movie. I was a bit disappointed. The male turkish world is hard for me to understand. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/04/23 Full Review Audience Member decent enough and parts coming off well, a crime story about a guy tring to make his way up the ladder. his downfall and all that. so nothing fantastic or cutting edge about it, but good, entertaining and goes nicely, a film that does what it does Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/20/23 Full Review Audience Member An excellent German riff on Scarface. A very intense film with some great acting. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Movie Info

      Synopsis A teenager and his best friend look for respect by becoming gangsters.
      Director
      Özgür Yildirim
      Producer
      Christian Springer
      Screenwriter
      Özgür Yildirim
      Production Co
      Corazón International, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) [de]
      Genre
      Crime, Drama
      Original Language
      German
      Release Date (DVD)
      Jul 14, 2009
      Runtime
      1h 32m