![]() Fictionalized account of a real-life bus hijacking that took. Courtesy Everett Collection ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHTZT Y Copyright: xCourtesy圎verettxCollectionx. Genre(s):ThrillerDramaCrime Release year: 2008 Running time: 110 min. (Even the very tired night-time helicopter shot around the large statue of Jesus that stands on the mountaintop outside Rio is recycled once again. Last Stop 174 Brazil Production: A Moonshot Pictures, Movie&art, Mac Prods., Paramount Pictures and Globo Films production, with the participation of Canal Plus. LAST STOP 174, (aka ULTIMA PARADA 174), 2008. Another difficulty is that the melodramatic elements of the story have been racheted up as high as possible, leading often to cliched situations and dialogue. One problem with the film is that the acting is not always convincing among the young boys obviously taken from the streets for their authenticity. The two Alessandros will meet on the mean streets of Rio, witness various police attempts to deal with the “riff-raff” children by murdering them wholesale, and will bond in prison and end up sharing an (all-too-short) life of crime. In the meantime, another Alessandro is taken from his mother as a baby by a local drug kingpin, setting off a years-long search for him once she finds religion and gets off drugs. A typical product of the grinding poverty that afflicts parts of Latin America, he is so badly educated that he is unable to write down the rap music he invents. He seems to think that prospective international audiences haven’t a clue about the rampant poverty (and the attendant violence) that exists in the favelas of Rio, but, in fact, we’ve seen it all before in all too many films, going back at least as far as “Pixote.” Even the fact that the police are often as violent and nasty as the criminals they pursue is fairly well-established by now.Īs he tells it, the hostage-taker, Alessandro, is set on a violent criminal path by the murder of his mother, a cafe-owner. 174: Canada (French title) Rio 174: Canada (English title) Última Parada 174: France: Rio ligne 174: Germany: Endstation 174: Germany (DVD title) Last Stop 174 - Endstation Hoffnung: Greece (DVD title) To leoforeio tis grammis 174: Hungary: Utolsó megálló 174: Japan (Japanese title). (Even the very tired night-time helicopter shot around the large statue of Jesus that stands on the mountaintop outside Rio is recycled once again.Athena Film Festival Reveals 2023 Winners of Black List-Inspired Athena List (Exclusive)īarreto is a veteran director, and shows countless times that he obviously knows what he is doing. One problem with the film is that the acting is not always convincing among the young boys obviously taken from the streets for their authenticity. Click the Watch on Netflix button to find out if Last Stop 174 is playing in your country. ![]() The two Alessandros will meet on the mean streets of Rio, witness various police attempts to deal with the “riff-raff” children by murdering them wholesale, and will bond in prison and end up sharing an (all-too-short) life of crime. Last Stop 174 (Portuguese: Última Parada 174) is a 2008 Brazilian film directed by Bruno Barreto, written by Braulio Mantovani, produced by Moonshot Pictures and starring Michel Gomes and Marcello Melo, Jr. ![]() He seems to think that prospective international audiences haven’t a clue about the rampant poverty (and the attendant violence) that exists in the favelas of Rio, but, in fact, we’ve seen it all before in all too many films, going back at least as far as “Pixote.” Even the fact that the police are often as violent and nasty as the criminals they pursue is fairly well-established by now.Īs he tells it, the hostage-taker, Alessandro, is set on a violent criminal path by the murder of his mother, a cafe-owner. Athena Film Festival Reveals 2023 Winners of Black List-Inspired Athena List (Exclusive)īarreto is a veteran director, and shows countless times that he obviously knows what he is doing.
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