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Um Crime Nobre (2001)
Mediocre at best
Despite the beautiful Ornella Muti and some competent Brazilian actors, this movie is mediocre at best. The movie begins, and as the plot starts to develop, it looks like it will be an interesting movie, but don't get your hopes up. As the story unfolds, the movie gets unexciting and slow paced.
Cheesy plot and weak production make it look like a bad Brazilian TV special. The morality issues involved in it are debated in a dramatic and obvious way, and sometimes you even get the feeling that you're watching a Brazilian soap opera.
The sound is another turn off, unlike most recent Brazilian productions, the sound isn't very nice (it's not so bad either). Scenes where the dialog audio is too reverberant (because of the location) were not dubbed over, making it sound real bad and even not very intelligible.
Special negative remark on the Brazilian TV version, where Ornella's voice was dubbed over by a voice actress (you can't air captioned movies in Brazilian TV, only in cable channels). The voice actress is good, and this wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't so badly mixed with the original audio.
All that being said, Ornella is still a great sight for sore eyes, and if you like her as much as myself, you might wanna check this out.
UFC VII: Brawl in Buffalo (1995)
No doubt, one of the best UFC of the early times.
This tournament is surely one of the best UFCs of the 90's.
Marco Ruas takes the game up to a whole other level. There have been guys in the UFC before, that have cross-trained, but not like him. For the first time in the UFC, you have a fighter who can effectively wrestle, strike, and fight on the ground. Ruas Vale-Tudo's motto back in the day was: "If he likes to punch or kick, I'll take 'im down, if he wants to take me down and fight on the ground, I'll keep standing and strike him".
Today, cross-training between different styles might be nothing new, but back then in '96 it was unheard of for most people. And even those fighters who had some cross-training couldn't blend their styles very well, and were all still too dependent on a single style.
Marco had been cross-training since his youth, and he was already using boxing/luta-livre (grappling) techniques since his early fights in Brazil in the 80's. In '96 he was able to show the martial arts world that Brazil had a lot more than just Jiu-Jistu.
This is HISTORICAL. If you like martial arts, fighting sports, or just some one-on-one REAL fighting action, this tape is for you.