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Monday 5 May 2014

El Gringo (2012)

A tough guy with a bag full of money gets stuck in a dusty Mexican town full of people who want the bag. You can guess the rest.
Flashbacks flesh out the hero’s past and introduce some extra players.
It’s similar to Robert Rodriguez's Mexico Trilogy, but the horrible, exaggerated glare of the sun bleaches everything ugly, making even the interesting scenes a struggle to endure. Plus, it’s too long. It's a low budget film and it feels as if whoever assembled it wanted to use every inch of footage they could. A more discerning editor could've shaved twenty minutes off the running time to the film's betterment.

2 stray dogs out of 5

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