Colosio: El Asesinato (2012)

In 1994, Mexico's ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation.

Director:

Carlos Bolado

Writers:

Hugo Rodríguez, Carlos Bolado,

Stars:

José María Yazpik, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Kate del Castillo

1 win.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
José María Yazpik	...	Andrés Vázquez
Daniel Giménez Cacho	...	El Doctor
Kate del Castillo	...	Verónica
Odiseo Bichir	...	El Licenciado
Tenoch Huerta	...	Jesús
Harold Torres	...	Mario Aburto / Joel / Sánchez Ortiz
Dagoberto Gama	...	Benítez
Emilio Echevarría	...	Don Fernando
Enoc Leaño	...	El Candidato
Luis Ernesto Franco	...	Pedro
Ximena Gonzalez-Rubio	...	Diana Laura
Karina Gidi	...	Bertha
Marco Pérez	...	El Seco
Gustavo Sánchez Parra	...	Ortiga
José Sefami	...	Torres

Storyline

It's 1994 in Mexico, the nation was witnessing a turbulent year since its beginnings. An indigenous rebellion shakes the country. Three months later, the ruling party's presidential candidate is brutally murdered during a rally in Tijuana. The country is concerned. Nobody knows who's behind this event, it all points to a conspiracy. Andrés Vázquez, an intelligence expert, is commissioned to lead a secret investigation parallel to the official government issued one. But another expert agent, el Seco, has received orders to wipe out all witnesses and get rid of the evidence surrounding the candidate's murder. As Andrés begins putting the pieces of this intricate puzzle together and comes closer to the truth, he realizes he's also putting his life and that of his loved ones in peril.

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Genres:

Thriller

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Details

Official Sites:

Official Facebook Official site [Mexico]

Country:

Mexico Spain France Colombia

Language:

Spanish

Release Date:

8 June 2012 (Mexico)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Udachi Productions, Alebrije Cine y Video, Oberón Cinematográfica

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Goofs

When the family first learns of the murder, there's a Sega Dreamcast next to the TV. The movie takes places in 1994, the Dreamcast was first released in 1999.

User Reviews

Good recreation of an era who is not as far from us as we believe

Contrary to the previous reviewer, I was not a baby when the events depicted in this Film occurred. This also implies some potential bias from my side in terms of having a better chance of identifying the characters.

The film does a very decent job of building credible sequences to explain what might have happened to motivate and execute the murder of the presidential candidate. For those of us who remember the anguish of the events, and the frustration not to be able to put the pieces of the puzzle together, this is a very nice try to make sense of things without committing excessively with a single particular hypothesis.

The acting is first class, in particular from Daniel Gimenez Cacho, who creates a repulsive "Doctor" who makes our stomach wretch with the villainy of the old Mexican political class.

The film maintains always a decent pace- balancing nicely the potential boredom of a documentary with the excesses of a fast paced action film.

Kudos for the Mexican cinema, probably an overstatement, but a nice try to emulate Stone's JFK.