This movie is one of the best examples of sly fun and cunning satire mixed with good doses of drama and real characters. The real and seemingly unreal merge together and make a marvelous movie that should have nearly everyone smiling at the end. Well directed and ever better acted, this movie should make you realize just how versatile an actor Chiwetel Ejiofor is (especially if you then watch Serenity after this with his turn as an ice-cold assassin).
Can't recommend this film more highly. It's a great piece of work...as are the shoes in question in the title.