Once you get past the cheesy made for video opening titles of the film you realize that this is a well made, albeit, whacked out of it's mind road film.
Alex De La Iglesia (Who seems hell-bent on becoming the Spanish John Waters) has delivered a truly twisted and inventive cult movie.
Weaving random violence, sex (including a disturbing rape), black humor, nonsensical flashbacks, the Mexican mafia, and great performances, the director delivers a demented and evil-minded tale of true love gone horribly awry.
I realize this may all sound awfully familiar to Natural Born Killers. In a sense it is. The tone of the film actually manages to find that darkly comic core that Natural Born...missed completely in it's convoluted excesses. But what else do you expect from Oliver Stone?
De La Iglesia is smart enough to realize that you don't need useless montages and idiotic laugh tracks to make your point, and the point he's trying to make here, is that there isn't one. Something Stone didn't realize in his film.
For everyone who sits around and complains there's nothing new to rent, check this one out, because no matter what you think of it, it's not the same old schlock.
Alex De La Iglesia (Who seems hell-bent on becoming the Spanish John Waters) has delivered a truly twisted and inventive cult movie.
Weaving random violence, sex (including a disturbing rape), black humor, nonsensical flashbacks, the Mexican mafia, and great performances, the director delivers a demented and evil-minded tale of true love gone horribly awry.
I realize this may all sound awfully familiar to Natural Born Killers. In a sense it is. The tone of the film actually manages to find that darkly comic core that Natural Born...missed completely in it's convoluted excesses. But what else do you expect from Oliver Stone?
De La Iglesia is smart enough to realize that you don't need useless montages and idiotic laugh tracks to make your point, and the point he's trying to make here, is that there isn't one. Something Stone didn't realize in his film.
For everyone who sits around and complains there's nothing new to rent, check this one out, because no matter what you think of it, it's not the same old schlock.