For a debut feature, this is a brilliant film. Heavily inspired by "Pulp Fiction,"this is a gritty urban drama about people living on the edge.deserved the oscar for best foreign film.A WARNING THOUGH, DOG LOVERS COULD DIE OF SHOCK WHILE WATCHING THIS ,SO TAKE CARE.

At first I found it interesting, daring and smart, then I found it better, and better, and better until it's one of the best movies I've ever seen.

A great movie that catches your attention for all the two-and-a-half hours that it's long. It captures the three sad stories in such a beautiful, melancholic, aesthetic way For me, all the blood and violence is part of that aestheticness. The movie seems to breathe the town, the atmosphere is conveyed great with, the people, upper class and lower. One of the best movies I've ever seen.

Great acting, emontionally intense, heavy.

Excellent movie. You don't want to miss this one. Great sample of the good movies that can be done in Mexico.

The owner of a neighbourhood video store recommended this to me. I havent seen a film that impressed me this much since i first say jan svankmayer's "Alice". thoroughly engaging the 2 hours plus flew by.

Although I still feel this movie is great, it's a movie best appreciated when you're watching it for the very first time. On repeated viewings, although it is still great, it just isn't as rewarding. Still, great performances from the cast and brutally realistic.

So good the soundtrack gives me goosebumps.

YOU must see this amazing film. You will enjoy it.

THE best movie I have seen this year, truly my vote for best foreing film. A work of art that is truly magnificent.

THE best movie I have seen this year, truly my vote for best foreing film. A work of art that is truly magnificent.

A bit too violent for me. Seemed very daring and very raw, innovative, and all the rest. But I just couldn't watch it more than about half way through. What a shame.

An good film with some brilliant moments. If Inarritu learned the value of an editor, it might have been more than that.

Amores Perros is easily the best film of 2001. It's got it all in spades: action, desperate love, complacent love, family drama, drawing-room drama, devastation, punk-rock alienation, tragedy, violence, dark humor, and social commentary, all looking good on screen. But Amores Perros is more than just a glib compilation of 90's movie tricks. It's also full of heart. I can�39;t remember the last time I saw so much genuine emotion in a film. Don't miss it.… Expand

Great Amazing Movie!!!

Brilliant. It got a 9 instead of 10 because it could have been a tad shorter, and the slow parts might have been handled better. I'd have gone for 9.5, if that had been a choice.

Good but not great. Too long in the middle. Still, check it out.

This movie nails you in place and doesn't let go. It's a gritty view of how brutal life can be once prompted by either fate or human behavior. The characters are not sympathetic yet you'll find yourself mesmerized by their actions and attempts to survive the sorry circumstances they stumble into or create for themselves. You'll stick around for the movie's two and one half hour length because you'll want to see what happens to the film's unsavory characters, and because the story is told so well. … Expand

Avert your eyes or press fast-forward during all the dog-fighting bits, or indeed the bits which merely show dogs bleeding copiously. This is Not Nice. But it's a masterpiece - I know it's as glib as all-get-out, but it really is the Mexican Pulp Fiction - partly because it's a similar type of film (the criss-cross structure, the occasional violence, the amoral characters, the earthy, fruity language etc) but also because it's in the same class - which is a good trick if you can do it - and because it's also a startlingly original early work (in this case, debut, in fact - which, is incredible to look at it) by a filmmaker who knows exactly what he wants to do, what he wants to show and what he wants to make and f**k anyone else. Credit where it's due though; unlike QT, Iñárritu didn't write it himself, and Guillermo Arriaga Jórdan deserves credit for keeping all the threads together in a coherent fashion. Not for everyone, mind - for a start its length (two and a half hours, and then some more minutes) will be off-putting for some, for a second the warning below is not a word of a lie - horrible things happen to (presumably pretend) dogs in this film, and you may not be able to stomach it. That said, I'm surprised not to read a single review balling it out for the ihnerently skippable and in no way gratuitous violence yet. Still, those caveats out of the way, Amores Perros is a brutal, mesmerising masterpiece from a filmaker (and screenwriter) who, if there is the remotest amount of justice in this god-forsaken world, will be bigger than curly fries by the end of the decade. Please? Just don't watch it if you have a dog. Or want one. Or know what one looks like. And to avoid fainting, keep repeating, "It's only a movie, it's only a movie." Jolly.… Expand

Writer speaks from essential to embrace absurd. Never saw movie that perfect.

Easily the best film of 2001, and, as some critics have indicated, one of the finest films of all time. The performances, writing, direction, and choice of music are all flawless. It was sad to see this same filmmaker try to create a similar masterpiece with 21 Grams, and mostly fail. If you didn't like that film, still give this one a chance. It truly is amazing.

Touching story. Brilliant idea of the three stories. The accident episode is the key of the movie. It keeps you alert till the end. The third story was the most beautiful to me.