director ralph ziman vivid and action pack south african gangster epic make for excite big screen entertainment . highly commercial and hardly politically correct and but reek with authenticity and the aptly and ironically title jerusalema offer cinema goer the same sort of tough and high energy thrill a crime epic like scarface and american gangster and city of god . unlike tsotsi and it not out win award and or to preach about the struggle . it out to please crowd . yet and while tell a strong and funny and gripping and well acted story of a young gangster rise to power and it also manage to paint a devastating picture of how and why crime have spiral out of control in the new south africa . tell it tale on a broad canvas and it begin in soweto in the early 1990s and introduce the audience to two teenage boy and lucky kunene ( jafta mamabolo ) and his best friend zakes ( motlatsi mahloko ) . lucky be an intelligent and ambitious youngster from a poor single parent home who be accept into university . he doesn not and however and get a bursary and so he try to earn money through various legitimate scheme . none of which succeed . eventually he and zakes be suck into crime though their relationship with nazareth ( a potent jeffrey sekele ) and an angry disaffected and former anc guerilla . and soon theyre hijack car ( affirmative repossession and say nazareth ) . but and after a botched robbery and a near fatal encounter with the police and the lad must flee to the jungle of hillbrow . cut to five year later . lucky and zakes ( now play by rapulana seiphemo and ronnie nyakale ) be operate a pirate taxi and scraping by . it a dangerous life and when arm rival steal their taxi and lucky decides to return to crime . jeruselema might shock some middle class viewer and but it be rivet fare and the crowd i saw it with clap and cheer along with the action . the charismatic seiphemo delivers a stunning performance turn lucky into a surprisingly sympathetic anti hero and and he superbly support by nyakale and sekele and a devilish malusi skenjana and who play a slimy nigerian drug dealer . then there be the great action scene and the powerful underlying theme . this vibrant and violent and colorful and authentic crime thriller and which pay homage to michael mann classic and heat herald a new dawn in south african film making and be highly recommend to audience look for top notch entertainment . p . jerusalema be now available on dvd in south africa .