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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543090526
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2003
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 79712
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: 1999
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Like Annie Hall in Hell
Do you remember in Hamlet when the players come to the castle advertising their wares as tragic, comic, historic, etc., tragic historic, comic historic, etc., etc. and every other kind of combination possible? Such is this film from Mexico City in 1999. It cannot decide what it will be, a serious documentary of urban violence with official complicity, a light petit bourgeous love comedy (complete with jerky friends and a tall bespectacled and bumbling Woody Allen and a slim and lovely and available ... Read More
Rating:  - Ethnic movie
If you are a Latin American, you may find this film interesting; if not, you may find it boring and scattered. The movie is about a filmmaker who wants to make a documentary about crime in Mexico City and discovers that some of the crime is being done by corrupt policemen. He sets out to expose them with the help of some friends. The movie suffers from the way the story unfolds, teetering between a weak drama and a silly comedy.
Rating: - Worth seeing
This movie is well put together, and offers us a glimpse 9though movie is fictional) of governments corruption through power, especially in Latin America (though the US is not immune).
Rating:  - Highly Entertaining!
An unemployed filmmaker borrows his ex-wife's car. He drives the car to an upscale restaurant for dinner with friends. A gang of outlaws (corrupt police officers) take over the restaurant and rob all the customers. In their getaway, the outlaws steal the filmmaker's ex-wife's car.
The police respond. They promise to the victims and to the news media that there will be a swift apprehension of the outlaws. The filmmaker knows better. He's been doing a film documentary on the increasing ... Read More
Rating: - Awesome performance
This is an amazing movie. It shows how life can be hard in Mexico city and how the diverse characters deal with it. As always, Demian Bichir has managed to show everyone what a great actor he is!
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