Get the gringo (2012)
Somthing akin to
Payback, but not as good
I've allways been a sucker for a Gibson film;
Payback, The patriot, Lethal weapon, Braveheart, Mad max, Maverick, favourites all. Even in latter years when his rather public outburst have rendered him hard to hire he's poped up from time to time and I've seen them. None of them has been as good as those mentioned above, but this one came...well, not close but considerably less far.
Gibson plays a robber who, after crashing through the us-mexico border in a car with 2 million dollars in a attempt to flee his pursuers, gets caught by the mexican federales and thrown into prison. There, he'll have to survive by his wits and skills while also trying to get his money back.
My first thought held true throughout the movie:
"Huh, this sounds alot like Payback." A lone figure tries to get back the money he's owed and get revenge on a former partner who stole his wife (yes, he has a partner who betrayed him and stole his wife in this movie too). The only differenceses are setting and a slight uptick in comedy. And quality, of course.
Payback was way better in my opinion. I'd never seen a noir film before I saw
Payback, but in my head this was what a noir was; a shlubby anti-hero who's inner monolouge works overtime as narrator and who's out for revenge on someone who wronged him. I was simply waiting for a Chandler-esque opening line like this:
"I was nursing the mother of all hangovers from the night before when a gorgeous dame walked into my office and started the waterworks." Time has proven me wrong on that account, but I still consider
Payback a noir for that reason. But back to the movie at hand.
While in prison, Gibson befriends a young boy and his mother. The boy, it turns out, is little more than a walking organ bag for the top boss in the prison and soon Gibson must make a choice: the money or the boy.
It's a brisk 90 mins that whent by quickly. Shlock action that can be enjoyed a couple of times before you get bored and go looking for somthing else.
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