Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.... (Full plot summary below)
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Documentary depicts what happened in Rio de Janeiro on June 12th 2000, when bus 174 was taken by an armed young man, threatening to shoot all the passengers. Transmitted live on all Brazilian TV networks, this shocking and tragic-ending event became one of violence's most shocking portraits, and one of the scariest examples of police incompetence and abuse in recent years.
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| Film Comment MagazineAmy TaubinBuilding an indictment of the media, the police, and the provincial governor for placing self-interest above saving lives, Bus 174 opens out from the people directly involved in the incident to an examination of institutionalized poverty. |
| eFilmCritic.comBrian MckayThis ain't no action movie, this is some real s***. Captures the event [of a bus hijacking] in a way that is far more visceral than any blockbuster suspense film could reproduce |
| Film Freak CentralBill ChambersAt once an overview of the crime-poverty cycle, a discomforting police procedural, and a re-sensitization to action-movie tropes, Bus 174 is one of the most thoughtful films of 2003 |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertPadilha edits the lethal standoff into a human tragedy, a journalistic thriller and a powerhouse social drama. |
| RTÉ (Ireland)Tom Grealisreminds audiences that simple techniques are sometimes the most effective means of telling a dramatic story |
| Cinema em CenaPablo VillaçaDocument?o excepcional que explora as mazelas da sociedade e do sistema judicial brasileiros. Retrato acurado de um Brasil desesperado, o filme nos leva a questionar quem s?as verdadeiras v?mas da viol?ia que impera no pa? |
| OffoffoffJoshua TanzerThink of it as the best episode of 'Cops' ever made. You can't take your eyes off this movie, and you'll leave with a very heavy heart when it's over. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonAs thoroughly researched as any documentary in recent memory. |
| Boston PhoenixPeter KeoughThe filmmakers offer no point of view, and so Onibus 174 comes off as an especially grim episode of Cops. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasA shattering piece of filmmaking that successfully ties the suspense of a real-time crime with the tragedy of a larger social ill. It will make you feel something. |
