Pluskylang Great Film overall

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Marc Israel "Bus 174" has since become the first part of the Jose Padilha trilogy examining Brasils' correlation between city homeless kids (in our documentary) police response (Elite Squad) and political correction (Elite Squad; The Enemy Within). The later two are full length action films that are engrossing as well as important in their focus, but have their separate reviews on IMDb. Bus 174 and Sandros' background revealed ties the massacre at Candelaria and his mothers' murder. We see beautiful sweeping overheads of Rio but then film of incredibly oppressive prison conditions. This is all in the context of a public hijacking caught on national TV while the ill equipped police scramble with poor communication and little plan. The only hope in with the hostages themselves to talk the desperate hijacker into a peaceful resolution. This is gripping and honest and long. Our social workers tell a familiar story but the professors waxing liberal policy don't offer solutions. Actually, it was in Elite Squad II that the politician educator gives a passionate and intelligent reaction to what must be done. You have to start somewhere and exposing what happened seems to be a good place to commence. While every country has its' Rio favellas and Sandros (victim/hoodlum) there is a clear correlation between the results of poverty and the crimes here that merit this film.

Ben Larson The situation is just a small step from exploding. The hostage taker is a street kid who is 19, and has been living on the streets for 13 years. The police are people who cannot find a job. They are poorly trained, poorly armed, and not respected.As events unfold on the bus, we visit children in the area to see how they live - no home, no food, no blankets. Ignored and abused, they have no choice but crime to get money for food. No one seems to care. In fact, a radio survey shows that most people want to "kill the kids and clean the city."The jail situation is so bad that prisoners say they would rather be dead. How are you going to get someone to give up the hostages when he knows what is awaiting him.It ends badly.

Matt Bancroft Why was a film made about someone who shouldn't have been on the bus, in a district he did not belong, take a woman's life who had a child then when he himself gets shot and killed the Policeman who shot him has to appear in court? It seems as though because he was poor he is alleviated from all his civil responsibilities...is the same old " don't blame him, blame society" nonsense...a truly boring film that doesn't deserve the time of day and on a subject of a man who was nothing more than a piece of rubbish..the police were doing their job and in my opinion did the right thing. No point keeping someone like that in jail only for the state to upkeep him

paulgeaf I never claimed to be any movie reviewer, I just like to come and comment after I watch a film and if someone reads it, they read it. All I try to do I suppose is convey something of what that movie made me feel. I have to say that this movie is probably one of the most difficult ones I have ever tried to comment on. It is hard to know where to begin. Obviously, the plot is simple (I know it is a real documentary! Don't misunderstand me using the word plot), there is a young guy on a bus with some innocent people and he is holding them at gunpoint. they are his hostages and he quickly lets it be known that he is in control here. Everyone's fate is in his hands.That lays out a taste of what you are in for when you sit down to this, right at the beginning you are sucked in and are listening to his words, wondering why and what makes a man come to a situation like that.The great thing about this film is that the creators didn't miss this. they spend a lot of time showing us why. Trying to uncover the multitude of reasons why a man would find himself in a situation like this. it makes for a fascinating yet harrowing story.What starts off as a mad shooting incident then becomes a different kind of film. a study, a documentary in the proper sense. a documentary of some poor guys non life. Before I get accused of sympathising with the guy as if he was innocent, don't think that. It is just interesting to learn, like when you watch this, that there is always a few more layers to a story than you might ever think!I cannot recommend this film enough and gave it 9 stars!This is about humanity and emotions and cruelty and greed.It is about us all.Watch it!