Don't Be Bad

2015 [ITALIAN]

Action / Crime / Drama

16
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 74%
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 74%
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 5588 5.6K

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Plot summary

A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.

Director

Claudio Caligari Photo
Claudio Caligari

Top cast

Giulia Greco Photo
Giulia Greco as Seconda smandrappata
Luca Marinelli Photo
Luca Marinelli as Cesare
Alessandro Borghi Photo
Alessandro Borghi as Vittorio
Vittorio Verdirosi Photo
Vittorio Verdirosi as Ragazzo Rissa Bar
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940.28 MB
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Italian 2.0
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24 fps
1 hr 42 min
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866.35 MB
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Italian 2.0
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1.89 GB
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Italian 5.1
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1 hr 42 min
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Italian 2.0
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1 hr 43 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Giuseppe_Silecchia 8 / 10

Boys who dream in the ruins

With visceral honesty and poetic rage, Non essere cattivo captures the twilight of youth in a Rome that feels more like a spiritual wasteland than a city. Claudio Caligari's final film isn't just a gritty tale of addiction and street life - it's an elegy for friendship, for lost futures, for all those who tried to escape and never made it. Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi deliver heartbreakingly raw performances, embodying two friends caught between self-destruction and redemption. The realism is brutal, but never sterile: what emerges is a tender, aching humanity under layers of crime, drugs, and survival. The cinematography doesn't romanticize, yet it glows with empathy. Caligari observes his characters like a brother, not a judge. Not for every moment, but essential when you're ready to confront the failure of dreams, the weight of loyalty, and the kind of love that hurts more than it heals. A film to carry with you - like a bruise that stays warm.
Reviewed by fuscopietro 8 / 10

The Crime of losing the Essence of Life

This is Claudio Caligari's latest film. Shortly thereafter, the Lombard director will die.A long career, almost thirty years in business, albeit incredibly poor in films: before the last film, only "Toxic Love" from 1985 and "The Night's Smell" of 1998. However, as taught by Sergio Leone's artistic story with only 7 titles under his belt, little is not synonymous with poor quality; ff anything, it can be an indication of freedom from the mechanisms of the system, in which the same laws of unbridled consumerism apply.The film tells of the friendship between Vittorio (Alessandro Borghi) and Cesare (Luca Marinelli), two boys from the Roman suburbs, once again Ostia, in the 90s. A suburb which is told in all its brutal objectivity, described without giving in to easy idealizations, that does not mythologize the discomfort in operation of an almost epic transformation of the township universe. The people who live in this area, on the outskirts of Rome, are here relegated as marginal beings to the bourgeois and rich society of the capital. It is a miserable universe; miserably marked from the uselessness and insignificance of which the 'criminucci' and the small rounds of drugs of Vittorio and Cesare, nothing to do with the large traffic of the much bigger organized crime that we love to see so much in movies.Within this very authentic world, a very simple story unfolds, of suffering and violence, imbued with evident Pasolinian references that confirm the desire to break away from a cinema of easy and hypocritical denunciation: as in "Accattone", poverty and almost brutal violence, the only language with which Cesare knows how to express himself, they are never treated with contempt or condemnation. A tenderness, as only of those who love the people they are about to tell, pervades this film, in which the sexuality is never vulgar, and violence, which is never justified by the discomfort that produces it, is not vulgarly free. Vittorio falls in love with a woman who a son grows up alone, and for her he decides to stop with a life of stratagems inconclusive and illegal; Cesare, however, is unable to get out of the 'circle', a lap which, I repeat, it is not the great Mafia tour, but rather a spiritual condition of instability and total fragility, subordinated to instinct and the effect of the latest drug launched on market. Yet, Cesare is still loved: Vittorio himself, at the cost of compromise with new employers, constantly seek employment for his friend.It almost seems that the lack of many comforts now inseparable from our bourgeois society leaves a space for humanity: that powerful humanity, not at all romantic or cloying, which men who have nothing but who are capable of they give what little belongs to them.
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