Gangs of Wasseypur Part 2 (2012)

To its credit, you can walk into this second half of the Bollywood crime epic without having seen the first and still be fine. Most of the main characters that we followed from the 1940s up to the 1980s in the previous installment are dead as Dillinger. Now meet the new generation in the bright and shiny 1990s. It’s the same old story, the same story as every mob movie: a guy kills his way to the top and then has to do a lot more killing to stay there. That’s all you need to know. The first half of the saga (the two parts were broken up for commercial reasons) chronicled two Wasseypur crime kingpins; this part sticks with one and is more engrossing for it. He’s a mousy kind of guy who turns out to be more psycho than most thought. Meanwhile the pace of the whole bloody affair remains brisk. Don’t let the length scare you off if you dig gangster flicks. This is five hours that never stops moving. The time flies like a bullet.