Jerusalema Page #2

Synopsis: Starting off with simple smash and grabs, and petty crime, Lucky Kunene quickly graduates to more aggressive heists such as armed robbery and carjacking. Soon, Lucky realizes he needs a bigger score to fulfill his goals of making it big, and escaping from the slums, to a dream house by the sea. Kunene hatches an elaborate and violent plan to make his fortune - hijacking buildings from landlords of Johannesburg tenements by winning the favor of the tenants and then holding their rent hostage from the landowners. His high-profile real estate acquisitions attract the attention of the local police force who have no qualms about using unprovoked brutality to bring him down. His trouble with the law, coupled with an escalating war between a local drug lord, creates a tense standoff: both sides are closing in, and Kunene must stay one step ahead--or his empire, and his life, will come crashing down.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Director(s): Ralph Ziman
Production: Anchor Bay Films
  6 wins & 1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.7
Metacritic:
53
Rotten Tomatoes:
76%
R
Year:
2008
119 min
Website
1,696 Views


Ah but gents, I counted to 100.

Reese the couch gent.

Gent, gent.

F***!

Oh god, god of Israeli,

send your Angie...

Hey!

...Abraham.

Look man, peas Austen

...gently...gently!

...a car is like your girlfriend...

...you must understand her...

...you've got to treat her smoothie.

What's so funny?

You're speaking to the wrong person...

This guy is a virgin.

F*** you...

How many women have you had?

Screw you!

How much p*ssy have you seen?

Going Nice...you're doing WWII.

Now push the couch in...put it into second..

...change gears now...

Yeah, now put it in second...

See? I'm making sweet love.

See for yourself.

My boss is going to iii me...

You were hijacked...remember!

Here...here...

Taxi fare home...

And buy yourself a drink...you need it!

Now f*** off!!

What do you think

you're doing, huh?

You are amateurs, man.

F***ing amateurs!

Is this the best

you could do for me?

We could have done better.

We just needed some more time.

I'm taking 2,000

for damages.

PIN is 1081.

What's this?

I don't trust these peppier, we want cash.

Whoa, what's this now?

Every time you deliver,

I deposit money into your account.

Use the card.

Don't throw it out.

I can't use this.

We want cash.

Hey, no one walks around

with cash anymore.

You want to get shot

or held up or hijacked?

Do I look like

a f***ing idiot?

Money.

Um...

Today I got a job.

Ray...

What job?

A good job...

...in the automotive industry.

It's good...

... Delivering cars.

- Hey.

- Oh, hi Lucky.

Why weren't you at school today?

I quit.

What?

And what about university?

Well, I guess I'll attend

the university of life.

I see you're the kind who

likes taking the easy way out.

You don't understand.

Why don't you

make me understand?

What are you reading?

Just a book.

Hey.

Oh, audit Literature?

Stop it, stop it!

...ET me see, ET me see...

come chooser.

Okay, Lucky.

Bye bye.

- Go on.

- Okay.

Once we learned to drive, it was easy.

What the f***?

Come on, man...

Yeah, blue Mercedes.

Consider it done.

And while we were

becoming the hijack kings of Soweto...

Nazareth had turned

to movies for inspiration.

Hey, what's up?

These guys Ray know their sh*t!

My friend, it's a movie.

It's not Rea.

Whoever made this f***

is a criming genius.

A Rea mastermind.

Boys...

I have a job for you.

The scorpions are here

Whoa!

Whoa whoa

whoa whoa.

Oh sh*t!

Let's move in!

Let's move in!

Get down.

Get down now! Down!

Get the weapon!

Move move!

Get the money!

Move!

- Come on!

- Faster faster!

Take the money!

Move!

Drive! Go!

What are you staring at?

If Hollywood could teach you how

to knock over armored cars,

bank robberies were a walk

in the park.

After a spate of daring heists,

the banks upgraded their security.

But Nazareth always

found their weak spot.

If Mother Russia

had taught him

Semtex and strategy,

Uncle Sam completed that education

via correspondence school.

Ma'am, have a nice day.

Someone on

the inside was always involved.

And who could blame them?

You see,

in the New South Africa

everyone deserves

their entitlement.

Preferably in this lifetime.

I was having more than

enough problems of my own.

Confirm locale.

The projects

on the Golden Highway.

We were having too many close calls.

Cops frustrated

by rising crime rates

and a legal system

that couldn't keep

those arrested behind bars

took the law

into their own hands.

I decided to quit before I was forced

into an early retirement.

Mama.

Lucky.

Wherever you been?

Aunt Violet, what's happening?

Your Mum is in hospital.

Diabetes. She'll be home tomorrow.

Hey, scumbag.

Fill it with super

and check the windscreen.

Move it.

You look good in a uniform.

How much do you make in tips?

I hear you're reapplying to university?

Serious?

What are you gonna eat,

books?

You can't quit from crime.

Crime is the biggest

growth industry in the country.

Correction, Comrade Nazareth.

...private security is.

Last year it surpassed mining

My boy...

It's just a smash and grab...

Quick and easy, man.

No violence.

I helped you, my boy...

I got you nice clothes, food...

I never asked you for anything.

Today, I'm asking you...

...are you in?

And I suppose this will be my last job?

Okay.

Get the weapons!

Get the f***ing weapons!

Go go go go go!

Drop dead, motherf***er!

Come on, come on!

Sh*t! Sh*t.

Ah!

Are you alright?

It's not that bad

Put this on, tight!

Sh*t...drive...keep going!

Sh*t!

Why don't we go to Durban?

You've always wanted to see the ocean.

How much cash we got?

Six hundred bucks...

Six hundred...after all that?

You know... Easy come, easy go!

Why don't we get lost in the

Jo'burg jungle, my friend?

Getting lost is the best option.

Lucky.

You are in serious trouble.

Worse than ever.

You will reap what you've sown,

I'm telling you.

I'm leaving.

Where are you going?

I just have to go.

Look after yourself.

Hey!

Hey!

AIDS is the work of the devil

- as he walks the earth.

- Hallelujah!

Hallelujah, praise the Lord!

The condom is

the devil's instrument.

Amen.

You know where AIDS

comes from?

Your mother.

Your talking sh*t, man,

it's these foreigners.

Nigerians, Congolese.

Yes, preacher man.

They caught it from your mother.

You catch it f***ing baboons

and then eating them.

Hey hey what are you

doing on our route?

F*** off!

What?

What?

F*** off you pirates!

You f*** off, b*tch..

Watch it!

Watch it, you satan!

Hi Lucky.

I got you fish and chips.

Sleep in the car...

...anyone fucks with our taxi, honk...

...stealing from a working woman?...

...f*** you!...

...you think I f*** for free, you bastard!?...

F*** off, you swine!

Hey, can I sleep at your place tonight?

So you can rob me while I sleep?

Piss off, you've got nothing.

Hey, taxi crew...

...your rent's late!

Relax Gasta, you'll get your money.

Pay or else, I've got kids to feed. End of story!

What about your degree Lucky?

You don't even open them?

Hey man I'm tired.

I don't want to hear about school.

Zakes, Zakes...

...who's there?

Yeah, yeah.

Nomsa.

Hello.

Tell me, is my Mum alright?

She's fine...

She asked me to bring you these.

You and Zakes should

come home more often.

Whenever you come over this late

I think there's a problem.

I'm sorry... Nothing's wrong.

I wish sometimes you'd

come out with me...

I have a taxi business to run.

Lucky, if you need money...

How long do you think

this scam of yours will last?

You talk too much...

Since when are you an angel?

... My angel

Nomsa had dropped out of Jo'burg Tech

and followed me to Hillbrow

to attend the university of life.

She'd found work

as a bank teller

and a way to make it pay.

She learned what we all knew.

If you want to get by,

take a job where

there's something to steal.

And of course, her brother

Bull had graduated

with flying colors.

Lucky, time to go...

Hey, tsotsi.

What time is it?

Early, go back to sleep.

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