Watch: Get the Gringo
Get the Gringo
Action • Thriller • Crime • Drama
Theatrical Release (US)
~ The odds are against him. So is everyone else. ~
Overview:
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
Director:
Adrian Grünberg
Status:
Released
Language:
English
Buget:
$35,000,000.00
Revenue:
$8,826,837.00
Key words:
Cast
Mel Gibson
~ as ~
Driver
Kevin Hernandez
Kid
Daniel Giménez Cacho
Javi
Peter Stormare
Frank
Jesús Ochoa
Caracas
Roberto Sosa
Carnal
Dolores Heredia
Kid's Mother
Mario Zaragoza
Vasquez
Peter Gerety
Embassy Guy
Bob Gunton
Mr. Kaufmann
Per Gunnar Jonsson
Written 10 year(s) ago
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I have always liked Mel Gibson and I really do not care how drunk or politically incorrect he might be. I still like to see him in movies and this is a surprisingly good movie. The movie had a proper theatrical premier in most countries except USA where it went straight to VOD which I find a bit surprising. It is a lot better movie than much of the stuff that are shown in theaters. I suspect the politically correct hypocrites had something to do with that.
Personally, I found this movie surprisingly good. Mel Gibson fit the role very well and made a quite good performance. The settings with the bizarre prison which looked like a cross between Alcatraz and Freetown Christiania in Copenhagen was quite cool. It was the kind of setting that I would not have been surprised to find in a Tarantino-movie. I also liked the cynical and somewhat ironical voice-over by Gibson.
The story was okay. Perhaps not the most believable one but good enough for this kind of action movie. Speaking of action, there were indeed some decent action in the movie but it is not like the movie is overloaded with it. It is nicely spread out and once the action starts it is pretty good. It is also true that some scenes are a wee bit gruesome but I am not sure that I agree with the R-rating. Most of the time that rating felt a bit over the top. Still, I rather have a R-rated movie with cuts than a PG-13 with lots of silly cuts in it.
There were some silly bits of course, like how easy Mel could evade the prison and make a “business-trip” to the states when he finally felt like it and the entire business of performing transplantation surgery in a filthy prison. Mel might have found that “put it back” statement funny when he wrote it but it came out rather silly to me.
Bottom line is that this was a quite enjoyable movie. A perfect after-work movie when you feel like parking your brain somewhere in the garage with your car and just sit down and watch something requiring a minimum of concentration.
