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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.
Year: 2012
Genre: Action, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Studio: Icon Productions
Director: Adrian Grünberg
Cast: Mel Gibson, Kevin Hernandez, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Peter Stormare, Jesús Ochoa, Roberto Sosa
Crew: Missy Lisenby (Makeup Artist), Alejandro Reza (Casting), Joe Rivera (Makeup Artist), Victoria Thomas (Casting), Bernardo Trujillo (Production Design), Mel Gibson (Producer)
Runtime: 96 minutes
Release: Mar 15, 2012
IMDb: 6.58/10 by 1,668 users
Popularity: 5
Country: United States of America
Language: English, Español
Budget: 35,000,000
Revenue: 8,826,837
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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.