

In a country amid a 'war against drugs' this is a powerful film which could do more to turn kids away from drugs than any measly government "task-force" or classroom lecture. The ending was truly the most frightening thing I have ever seen in film- forget the cheap scares of The Exorcist, Psycho and the endless bile of the 'slasher flick', this stuff is REAL. The FDNY members had to perform a special maneuver and scale down the side of a Washington Heights building to rescue two people, one a child, from their windows, CBS2's Natalie Duddridge reported. connected by a short length of rope (hose strap) and hung over the. This movie is by no means flawless, but then again I would like to hope that the flaws add to the gritty reality of the film. the firefighter who performed a daring rescue or simply, a critique of an operation.

I've never left a film shaking or feeling physically ill- not including Pearl Harbour, of course :) You want to look away, but cannot. As the addictions plunged further into the depths of Hell, I felt myself more and more arrested by the film. Thank goodness too, rather than challenge my brain (not hard to do unfortunately) this film went straight for the heart, ripped it out and kicked it around the floor for 90 minutes. Often hype about films lead to disappointment and after waiting 14 months after release for my local cinema to show this film, I was done thinking about it.
