This is a very good movie by all means. The "dog-fight" scenes were hard to watch because they were so real it was scary. However the dogs that were used in the fight scenes were not hurt according to the film's director and that is a great thing specially for all of us who love and protect animals against abuse and cruelty. All of the three stories in the film are quite excellent. My favorite story however is the first one that we are introduced to when the movie opens. The trials and tribulations and everyday survival of Octavio and Susana make the film a winner right from the start. I'm a big fan of Gael Garcia Bernal and needless to say he was fantastic in this movie which is the reason that I was drawn to see the movie in the first place. The entire cast however did an outstanding job and because of AMORES PERROS (Love's A Bitch) latin cinema in Mexico and accross the country is booming. Although this movie is not for everyone it is an excellent film that should be seen. The acting is wonderful and that alone is reason enough to see it I think. Very good movie I'm glad I saw it. A must for Gael Garcia Bernal fans don't miss it.

I really loved this movie, I guess it's not for some. For the person who said it was a 'porno flick', it has much less sexuality than other movies out there... and you shouldn't be focusing on that, the movie is deeper than the few sex scenes that occur.

the movie was delicious. read onto the other reviews and you shall know what the movie is about. have fun.

A car accident gives a new turn to the lives of those involved: An irascible husband who works in a supermarket has plans to get rich with the help of his fighting-dog ("My little piggy bank") but his brother appreciates the dog's pugnacity too: he wants to elope with his pregnant sister in law. The car that contains the lower classes and their aggressive pet crashes into a car that contains a member of the upper classes: a blond supermodel who needs no scars on her shapely thigh - her agency tries to get rid of her. She is driven to despair when her pampered lap-dog falls into a hole under the floor. The place is inhabited by rats and she can hear her little darling howl, but her husband refuses to break open the parquet: his separation from the wife & children he left for blondie was too costly. Her inflammation develops into gangrene...A dog-catcher witnesses the accident and saves the fighting-dog. But this ungrateful creature kills his other charges...

The producer's protestation that no animals were hurt during shooting is soothing in view of the numbers of blood-dripping bodies that embellish this film. AMORES PERROS tries to be PULP FICTION with a social conscience, but looks more like SHORT CUTS without the laughs. What did the filmmakers try to tell us? That poor people have to set their dogs on each other because they cannot afford the luxury of a clean conscience? That rich people can sleep well while an injured animal - whose cash value is lower than the price of a new parquet - is dying under their bed? The film delivers gaudy pictures in a happy jumble and the staging of acts of violence is often clever and humorous. Alas, it's always a ticklish venture to court an audience who thinks that crime is cool...

I went to see this at the movies and walked out before the half point. Maybe I'm to conservative, but this movie is not to far off from a porno flick. Adding on to that it was just to bloody for me. I know people who loved it but for me it just showed way to much sexuality. This is a Rate R film that you shouldnt let kids see for sure.