This movie rocked me. It's as simple as that. I left my seat thinking here is a young
filmmaker who finally has the maturity and depth to deal with urban unrest without
losing his soul. Mathieu Kassovitz talks about 'hate' with love and humanity,
something I haven't seen in the myriad of American urban genre films. That's what
makes HATE so powerful. In a Europe so saturated with American culture and its
media barrage of violent images, there is a young disenfranchised generation
emerging from the embers. One that has its own identity, its own wounds... Someone
better talk about it before it explodes.