A very good movie

Since 'Amores Perros' (which is one of my all-time favorites) , I try to catch every movie directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. I had some rather high expectations for this one and, fortunately, it didn't disappoint me. It is rather interesting that out of the 3 major Mexican releases coming out in 2006 (this movie, 'Children of Men' and 'El laberinto del fauno'), Inarritu's movie turned out to be my favorite one whereas 'Children' and 'Labyrinth' got more love from the rest of the world. Basically, it is once again another hyperlink tale (multiple & parallel story lines are linked with each other) written by Guillermo Arriaga (who also wrote 'Amores Perros' and '21 grams' which were also hyperlink tales). You could fear that the gimmick is getting a little tiresome by now, but it wasn't, at least, not for me. Indeed, the directing was awesome, the cast (including Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett in top shape) was really good and, above all, the story was just fascinating to behold. In the contrary to many other hyperlink movies, there were only 4 storylines, they were all very well developed and they all worked very well. To conclude, I really loved it and it is definitely worth a look, especially if you are fan of Inarritu's work like me.

8/10