The movie is one of the best action movies I've seen coming out from Venezuelan cinema. I have only two problems with this movie.
First is that they portray Venezuelan society as totally corrupted and while there is corruption, is not like the wild west either. I lived in that city for a long time and nothing ever happened to me. Of course, don't be flashy about things you might have (cell phone, cars, watches) in troubled neighborhoods, but I find that is the same thing you have to do in a lot of areas of Washington DC.
Second issue is that I'm still trying to figure out what it is the purpose of adding footage of a coup d'etat. It only served the director to get sued in Venezuela by the guy who was shooting in that initial scene and of course, government reaction because of the one sidedness of the footage, it would be interesting that they show the street blockades with burning tires that these "citizens" established throughout the city that basically confined everyone to their homes (including sick people in need of attention) and was the main reason of police action. I guess the director is antichavez like most upper-class people in Venezuela, but mixing politics seems unnecessary to me in this case, since at the end you get to see why Chavez is there in the first place, which is the huge inequality left by the so called democratic governments throughout Latin America.
First is that they portray Venezuelan society as totally corrupted and while there is corruption, is not like the wild west either. I lived in that city for a long time and nothing ever happened to me. Of course, don't be flashy about things you might have (cell phone, cars, watches) in troubled neighborhoods, but I find that is the same thing you have to do in a lot of areas of Washington DC.
Second issue is that I'm still trying to figure out what it is the purpose of adding footage of a coup d'etat. It only served the director to get sued in Venezuela by the guy who was shooting in that initial scene and of course, government reaction because of the one sidedness of the footage, it would be interesting that they show the street blockades with burning tires that these "citizens" established throughout the city that basically confined everyone to their homes (including sick people in need of attention) and was the main reason of police action. I guess the director is antichavez like most upper-class people in Venezuela, but mixing politics seems unnecessary to me in this case, since at the end you get to see why Chavez is there in the first place, which is the huge inequality left by the so called democratic governments throughout Latin America.