La Haine (1995)

La Haine is a gritty story, shot in a black and white documentary style, that follows 3 friends who have become victims in a country that is slowly falling to pieces... Problem is our "heroes" spend so much time shouting and swearing at each other that you wonder if their friends at all. Vincent Cassel's acting is good and realistic, but like the other two in our trio of antiheroes, it is hard to feel any sort of emotion around them, do we really care about their increasing problems? The story doesn't really go anywhere either, the audience frequently watch the characters do something, get in trobule for it, shout a lot and then the cycle begins again... Plus, why is the film in black and white? I have nothing against old films without colour, sometimes they're quite charming, but seen many other documentary style films (such as District 9- well at least the beginning) do a perfectly good job proving it's point in colour, come on producers, get with the times... La Haine does contain some good, dark points about society, but there is no where near enough in the film to last 96 minutes...