Sad sad sad
Normally I wouldn't’t write anything about this movie. The time I’ve
already spent on watching it was way too much. But come on…9.3 rating??? It’s kind of intriguing… A some-kind-of-USA-secret-agency just spotted some Afghans that they try to deal with the last big drug cartel in Mexico, Tijuana. Are they going to let the deal take place between the Mexicans with the “Afghan-terrorists”? Of course not. For that they recruited a retired undercover agent to stop them, who in turn recruited two supposedly unstoppable and unmistakable head-hunters to kill the head of the Mexican cartel, who took leadership not actually being part of the Family and is in rivalry with the stepson of the Godfather for taking the leadership of the cartel, who Godfather is in his last days dying and a very good friend with the local priest, who take cares of the soul of the not-from-the-Family leader of the cartel. Where was I? Oh, the two head-hunters are messing up the job because a sniper shoots them, who sniper also tries to kill the not-from-the-family-leader of the cartel but a vision of a woman that he killed in a previous job haunts him just at the moment he was supposed to pull the trigger, which woman was killed by him and filled the sniper with guilt because no one cared about her death. Does anything of the above make any sense? If not add one whore that takes care of the sniper, one good friend of the sniper who gets killed by the cartel, also add that the stepson of the godfather is actually crying with every line he says, add that the Mexicans speak Spanish like a Chinese should speak in Greek, also add that the priest turns out to be the personal Godfather’s killer boy, who Godfather is not actually sick at all but pretends to be, add that both the not-family-leader and the stepson get killed, also the sniper gets killed and that the Godfather is cooperating with the some-kind-of-USA-secret-agency mentioned at the beginning. Confusing? Yes. Unanswered questions? Yes. Idiotic plot? Also. Action movie with no action? You guessed right. Good actors acting worse than me? Sad but true. The bottom line is that I will give 1.000$ if anyone watches the film and makes more sense than these that I have already written.. Average ...
It is very difficult to give something new to the audience. Specially
when talking about such a controversial topics as Drug dealing, mafia, terrorism, cartels Etc. Being Mexican myself I looked forward to see how a new director would portray this "not to take lightly" topic. The first impression I got as I began to watch the movie was the serious influence of Steven Soderbergh's "Traffic", a fabulous movie which provides an unusual vision of the drug underworld. As the movie continued it was not difficult to identify some the similarity with some other movies, not only character wise, but also concerning plot, conflict and even cinematography. Shields' character is a weird mix of Denzel's Creasy in Man on fire and Pierce Brosnan's hit-man in Matador. Both very well structured characters, but when combined do not have the same effect. It is difficult to be bring something new to Drug dealing movies, particularly because everything has pretty much been said about dealing drugs; so when a director tries to give some extra dramatic flavor, it has a contradictory effect, It is appealing but not very coherent. Check out this movie it is not completely dismissible, specially if you take into account its independent nature. But do not expect to see anything worth referring to in the future.. |
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