After a chaotic night of rioting in a marginal suburb of Paris, three young friends, Vinz, Hubert and Saïd, wander around unoccupied waiting for news about the state of health of a mutual friend who has been seriously injured when confronting the police.
Hate is, I suppose, a Generation X film, whatever that means, but more mature and insightful than the American Gen X movies.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
1 Jan 2000
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Writer-director Mathieu Kassovitz mines so much tension and pointed dialogue from a low budget and deceptively simple premise that you wonder why so much of current Hollywood's own social realism ends up shooting $50 million blanks.