Bingo: The King of the Mornings (2017) User Reviews

Bingo is a great movie for those who got it

[agostino-dallas · 9/10 · 4 September 2017]

He looks like a clown you probably know...because of trademark rights, the name of the clown, the TV channel names and many people's names were changed to avoid lawsuits. Having said that, it is inspired and really it got very close of the person behind the clown make-up. It will entertain but also shock and disappoint you, all together. But mostly, it is a great movie, realistic and cruel in the details. It is about real life, so you an expect the good and the bad of it. Above all, I was a kid and this movie is very loyal to the reality. How TV drains energy, trade off for success. I believe American audience would not enjoy it so much. The truth is, "Bingo" was not meant to be politically correct movie. It is a great movie.

Sex, Drugs and Television

[eagandersongil · 8/10 · 27 September 2017]

the national cinema returning to fill the movie theaters to see a quality movie, and this return could not be in a better way, portraying the story of the rise and fall of one of the greatest icons of Brazilian television of the 80s, Bozo, or rather, Bingo, since the feature did not get the copyrights, is a great movie, with great performances and a top-level, escrachado direction. critical, surreal, dramatic and entertaining, "Bingo- the kings of mantras" is a quality nostalgia, as well as a biography of Brazilian television from the 80's. With a linear and biobibliographic script, the great sin of the script is to develop many The film could have more than 20 minutes, at times it seems that there is a lack of rhythm and in the end it seems that there is no story, and that is the great sin of the movie, we tire but it has the full sensation that it has seen the summary of the history of Bingo. Technically the film is splendid. Daniel Rezende, walks with his camera, faztraveling, makes closed plans, blurring, closes and beautiful aerial plans, and even subjective camera he uses, he more than just films a story, he gives points of view of his work that composes a whole , a clear photograph, a great use of lighting, that can make the screen shine in the big moments of Bingo and darken in its low moments, all aligned to a good soundtrack, with a lot of national rock and a competent assembly, but that does not enchant, since the assembly is the most observable aspect of the film, seeing the history of its director. Vladimir Brichta gives a show of performance, not only transgressive of Bingo, but in his calm moments, of reflection, of depression, of pure fall, despair and anguish, his performasse is remarkable and does not fall the level. Daniel Rezende, was editor of great films like; City of God, Elite Troop, Tree of Life .... and also worked with great directors and great actors, and finally makes his debut in the direction, is a good name, and it is good to keep an eye on him, the national cinema of quality on the big screen.

It would be an 9 before the end

[anatole-klapouch · 7/10 · 5 January 2018]

From the beginning to almost the end it's a great movie! I really enjoyed it, had some good laughs. Well, I relate a lot to Bozo, I was a fan as child, although I've never called him.

But, the end of the movie is so anti climatic. The end is awful. When I realized it ended in that way I was really disappointed. I don't know what the producers/directors/writers wanted with this ending. "Drugs are bad"? "Jesus is good"? I don't know. It's just awful.

Good movie. Awful ending.

Conga la Conga

[HumphreyLebowsky · 10/10 · 25 August 2017]

This is the best movie of the year so far. I'm from Brazil and this movie makes me hopeful about Brazilian cinema. This is the first movie of Daniel Rezende and he does an incredibly work here, he perfectly combines humor and drama, it is a very sentimental movie and only because of the perfect performance of Vladimir Brichta, he is a very complex character which has a very powerful fight against his own demons. All The supporting characters are great as well

The best Brazilian movie since City of God

[marcos_besse · 10/10 · 28 September 2017]

When we think about Latin America movies, it seems to be a formula: thrillers with Ricardo Darin, in Argentina; violence with drug dealers, in Mexico; drama with shanty towns, in Brazil; or any of them making shallow comedy movies. Bingo brings some fresh air in the regional movie industry. More than that, it would be an "out of the box" idea in any international market. The movie might have some ups and downs but, overall, it's a creative, well produced and well directed product, with a couple of outstanding moments from the main actor. I hope we can see more examples of that from Latin America. it's the best movie since City of God.

Great movie and great performances. Funny and harcore life of Bozo!

[binhosan · 8/10 · 12 November 2018]

I think it is one of best brazilian movies since City of God's Fernando Meirelles and Elite Squad's José Padilha duology. Very funny, very intense, very alive as like the Bozo himself and the 80s age. Fame, drugs, irreverence and a kind of freedom that we will never have again in television. I felt like it was really genuine as the real life is.

UNNOTICED EPIC

[sreeragmeppadath · 9/10 · 12 March 2019]

I heard about this movie 2 days before by a friends review.I didn't even knew there was such a movie before.Watched this expecting a time pass and I got a great movie filled with excitement,emotions and great acting.

the best Brazilian film since City of God?

[miguelneto-74936 · 7/10 · 3 January 2018]

Brazilian cinema has always had enough quality and could easily have won the Oscar for best foreign film for the excellent City of God, but this year the film was not nominated, but at least it got 4 nominations, including in the best director category and it was a great made, but never managed to win the Oscar, but Bingo: The King of the Morning was a big bet to finally get this prize, but will not get again because it was not among the pre-competitors, but still a lot of people consider Bingo: The King of the Morning The best Brazilian film since City of God, I disagree, is a good movie, but in that time frame had better movies, it is a movie that has a narrative style a bit like Birdman won from Oscar best film in 2014, and the plot is based on the real story of Arlindo Barreto who was the Bozo clown in Brazil, the film he is good, has great moments, and good performances, Vladimir Britcha is excellent the movie has a problem in the dramatic scenes, it stretches a lot and sometimes it's a little forced, it could be shorter the scenes, some characters are very caricature and there are others that no relevance in the film and could be easily cut from the film, the direction of Daniel Rezende is very competent but I think he could have taken better advantage of some actors, I did not like the son of the protagonist that is interpreted by Cauã Martins, I think he's not so important in the movie, Bingo: The King of the Morning is a good movie, but it could have been better. Note 7.5

A real good story, miserably wasted.

[takushii · 4/10 · 21 July 2018]

The movie was promising. After reading some reviews I really thought I would watch some of the great Brazilian movies that have not been done for almost two decades. It's also a nostalgia movie, which refers to my childhood, which happened exactly at that time. The film starts well and is developing reasonably. Then we begin to perceive the work completely and we find that it is very poorly written. The story does not have a good script, nor a good flow. The second part is lost in a cauldron of cliches involving cocaine, sex and family dramas, without the viewer even caring about any character. Even the scenes of nudity, and those who set out to be sexy do not thrill, because there is no chemistry between the characters and no coherence in the story. Between the clown and the producer, from where it could have extracted some emotion, nothing relevant happens and you'll find out in the credits that the two ended up getting married. Finally, the bibliographical inconsistencies are striking. Why make a film inspired by the life of the third actor to play Bozo in Brazil, if in fact are mixed the trajectories of other brazilian Bozos? It makes no sense.

From bad to worse and then the worst

[alvareskrull · 1/10 · 17 September 2017]

It is hard to imagine how could a movie be worse. "Bingo", the movie about the first actor to impersonate the franchise clown Bozo in Brazil, starts appealing to those who, as kids, are familiar with the character and the years it was a great TV hit. And in doing so the movie pretends to be both revealing (who is the fellow behind the mask?) and daring (nothing will be hidden!). But that is just a ruse, a bait to hook the infantilized audience who is about to be abducted to a story of "conversion", a story where good and evil are like oil and water, where the "whores" are named (Gretchen, a famous Brazilian pop icon, is the only real person to have her name exposed, and in a poor light for that matter) and where those who pretend to be religious may do whatever they want as long as they pay their duties to a given church (the future wife of Bingo, the only devotee of the movie, is the program director who professes to be religious albeit working for the coke snoring clown as if that was no sin...!). Here you have the classical hypocrisy dealing the cards. In a country where, in 2017, those who pretend to be fighting corruption are the worst criminals, would not be a surprise that a film like this could be a hit. And it appears to be. Unfortunately.

Inaccurate crap

[bernardoarquivo · 1/10 · 5 February 2018]

First of all, the dude portrayed in the picture was not the first Bozo; he was the third, so all the scenes around him being chosen by a foreign executive are BS. Second, his mom - the beautiful and talented Márcia de Windsor - was only forty-eight when she passed away. There was absolutely no reason to have her played by an actress in her seventies (even if she's the wonderful Ana Lúcia Torre). Third, when this dude started playing Bozo, it had already been a smash hit for two years; he didn't create anything. He just kept it going, as did many other actors throughout Brazil; this was not a network show and there were many other Bozos in local broadcasters. The format had already been proven succesfull, and not because of him.

The script is dumb and amateurish. The dialogues are pathetic and sophomoric. No depth. No real argument. Just shallow humour, idiotic pointless nudity, and made up stuff that has very little to do with the reality of things, which is, plainly, that this dude's story is not even close to having the importance it's been given. I'm not even gonna get into the ending of it, and the pitifull "conversion" of this dude. I'll just say I'm sorry this is the kind of cinematic crap being made in Brazil these days. We have such wonderful actors and directors. Why can't we produce something with any actual artistic value?