Based on Roberto Saviano's book on the Camorra crime syndicate, this delivers a matter-of-fact and in-your-face slab of life on the grassroots level of crime in Naples. Garrone has little interest in glamourising his subject matter by highlighting cinematic considerations, and this is both to the film's advantage in being taken as vérité reportage and disadvantage in that there's actually very little to engage the onlooker. Characterisation is undeveloped and it's all rather dramatically flat. Worthy, then, but of little interest to the outsider beyond being a documentary in a more easily digestible form.6/10
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