With the help of his recent recruit, a guarded, ruthless gang leader Jeet Johar takes on an established crime lord in a battle against rival gangs for control over Vancouver's arms and drug trade.
How much you enjoy Beeba Boys depends on whether you choose to focus on its faults or its merits, which are roughly equal in scope. Either way you slice it, it's a certainty that you've never seen anything quite like it.
In a film that does have a reliably twisting crime plot with a satisfying denouement, there is too much action to do any of this emotional material justice.
From a distance, "Beeba Boys" looked like it had the potential to be a genuinely fresh take on the gangster movie, and it delivers on that promise in fits and starts.
In Beeba Boys, Deepa Mehta channels her inner Tarantino for a noteworthy change of pace, one that pursues her career-long inquiry into identity and the immigrant experience with explosive results.
