City of God: The Fight Rages On

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Season 1
Metascore
53

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4

Critic Reviews

  1. Decider
    Reviewed by: Joel Keller
    Aug 26, 2024
    70
    City Of God: The Fight Rages On is a touch confusing to those who didn’t watch the original 2002 film, but has potential to be a tense thriller of a series after the first episode, which introduces us to characters both old and new.
  2. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Cristina Escobar
    Aug 15, 2024
    70
    By aging up its characters and only offering a few new teen ones, it’s missing the optimism that comes with youth and instead appears stuck in a middle-aged malaise. Where to go next? How and if to change? “City of God: The Fight Rages On” isn’t sure, but it knows its characters deserve to live, to have their stories told, to grow. And that’s a pretty strong foundation.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Aug 23, 2024
    50
    Its opening chapters are occasionally thrilling, but mostly pandering and correcting, trapped in the past instead of pushing forward.
  5. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Radheyan Simonpillai
    Aug 20, 2024
    40
    Familiar stuff, especially in a post-Narcos TV landscape, but this time it’s told in tropes, leaving the gritty authenticity of the source material lost in translation.