Gangster’s Paradise: Jerusalema 2008 123movies

Watch: Jerusalema 2008 123movies, Full Movie Online – Starting off with simple smash-and-grabs and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. He soon realizes that he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big and escaping from the slums to a dream house by the sea. He hatches an elaborate, violent plan to make his fortune: hijacking buildings from Johannesburg-tenement landlords by winning the tenants’ favor, then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force, who has qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead–or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down..
Plot: This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
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Ratings:

	7.3/10 Votes: 10,697
	77% | RottenTomatoes
	53/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 44 Popularity: 6.99 | TMDB

Reviews:

exciting entertainment
DIRECTOR Ralph Ziman’s vivid, action-packed South African gangster epic makes for exciting big screen entertainment. Highly commercial and hardly politically correct, but reeking with authenticity, the aptly and ironically titled “Jerusalema” offers cinema-goers the same sort of tough, high-energy thrills as crime epics like “Scarface”, “American Gangster” and “City of God”. Unlike “Tsotsi”, it’s not out win awards, or to preach about the struggle. It’s out to please crowds. Yet, while telling a strong, funny, gripping, well-acted story of a young gangster’s rise to power, it also manages to paint a devastating picture of how and why crime has spiraled out of control in the new South Africa. Telling its tale on a broad canvas, it begins in Soweto in the early 1990s, introducing the audience to two teenage boys, Lucky Kunene (Jafta Mamabolo) and his best friend Zakes (Motlatsi Mahloko). Lucky is an intelligent, ambitious youngster from a poor single parent home who is accepted into university. He doesn’t, however, get a bursary, so he tries to earn money through various legitimate schemes. None of which succeed. Eventually he and Zakes are sucked into crime though their relationship with Nazareth (a potent Jeffrey Sekele), an angry disaffected, former ANC guerilla. And soon they’re hijacking cars (“affirmative repossession”, says Nazareth). But, after a botched robbery and a near fatal encounter with the police, the lads must flee to the “jungles” of Hillbrow. Cut to five years later. Lucky and Zakes (now played by Rapulana Seiphemo and Ronnie Nyakale) are operating a pirate Taxi and scraping by. It’s a dangerous life and when armed rivals steal their taxi, Lucky decides to return to crime. “Jeruselema” might shock some middle-class viewers, but it is riveting fare and the crowd I saw it with clapped and cheered along with the action. The charismatic Seiphemo delivers a stunning performance – turning Lucky into a surprisingly sympathetic anti-hero, and he’s superbly supported by Nyakale, Sekele and a devilish Malusi Skenjana, who plays a slimy Nigerian drug dealer. Then there are the great action scenes and the powerful underlying themes. This vibrant, violent, colorful, authentic crime thriller, which pays homage to Michael Mann’s classic, “Heat” heralds a new dawn in South African film-making and is highly recommended to audiences looking for top notch entertainment.

A Great Triumph For South Africa
Lucky is a young black man in South Africa, who feels the oppression of apartheid. Once the apartheid ends, though… the life for blacks gets no easier. In his own form of affirmative action, he helps grow a large, powerful gang to get ahead. Is it right or wrong, and was it necessary?

Ralph Ziman is a director from South Africa. While he started of in music video, once he came into his own, he told the tale of South Africa with a passion that no one else has yet matched. Recent films like “Invictus” or “District 9” try to capture the spirit, and in some ways do, but Ziman has it inside him and has the talent to let it out.

I must say, there was an unfortunate naming choice with “Gangster’s Paradise”, and this gives it a cheaper feel. The original title, “Jerusalema”, was more than adequate and gives the film a mature moniker that it richly deserves. I am not sure who felt American audiences couldn’t handle the original title, but they have done the film a great disservice.

We have seen our share of South Central Los Angeles gang movies. Here is a film that has parallels, but offers an interesting moral perspective on a racial, global issue. Can you empathize with a thieving thug? If you watch this film, you just might.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 59 min (119 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Action, Crime, Drama
Director Ralph Ziman
Writer Ralph Ziman
Actors Rapulana Seiphemo, Jeffrey Sekele, Ronnie Nyakale
Country South Africa
Awards 6 wins & 1 nomination
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Dolby Digital
Aspect Ratio 2.35 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length N/A
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process N/A
Printed Film Format 35 mm