Amigos, if you don't want to sit for three hours & more, well, then I don't recommend this movie. It's overly OVERLY long, the lead actor (Damian Chapa) is a mockery to bad acting and overacting even more so, y si sabes un poco castellano you will know and laugh at many scenes where they try to capture the essence of being Spanish. Also, words like "familia", "carnal" and "vatos locos" are spoken so many times I started thinking somebody misunderstood the word "filler". It's not a bad movie, and Benjamin Bratt almost makes up for his movie brother's poor acting abilities, but the movie just runs for too long without a really satisfying ending. Chapa kind of picks up on his character as the movie goes by (well, he damn sure had more than enough time to redeem himself in this one-oh well) and it is a movie one does not forget that easily, but in the end it wasn't executed in the best possible way and came off as just too much a B-class wannabe smart movie. Worth the watch if you get a kick out of watching really bad acting or if you enjoy crime/gang/prison movies.
6/10
6/10