Some great visuals, especially on the ranch. The protagonists father's acting is good. I recognised him from the end of 'Sicario', so that brought a level of talent to this film, though he's given nothing to do in the film.
I gotta talk about the other acting, Mother of God!!!!!! the lead actress in this film, her acting is dreadful....I mean REALLY, REALLY bad, she has one look on her face for almost the entire film. She has zero range of emotion, how was she cast as the lead for this???? LOL. She is painful to watch.
Theres a few things in this film that are brushed over/vague: The opening montage of the woman "stealing" credit card info, how does she do it, she all of a sudden has all these credit cards she's swiping the info of. The montage would be so much more compelling if we experienced her trying to steal them, why? because there are immediate stakes attached, she'd get caught, the police would get involved and it would likely go right up to the scam ring her mother and partner are running and they'd ultimately lose their house...and there in brings my next point..
..I'm 50 mins into this film and the last time I saw the protagonist in the US her and her mother were going to lose the family home, the protagonists motivation for making money after being deported is to keep her home in the states, like any normal human being in that situation, but surely by the end of the second act the house is about to get repossessed, but I've no idea whats happening, whats the status on her home? just bad storytelling. Dear writer of this film: If you're going to set up stakes that are supposed to drive the story of the film you HAVE to pay it off in some way, let us the viewer experience the stakes coming to pass or the stakes being overcome - Screenwriting 101!
What exactly was the woman doing for the bad guy, it's vague, there's no context to it? How does she do it? What's her role in it? Like the credit card stealing it's all quickly brushed over and felt lazy. There's money exchange involved but what is the protagonist's involvement to it? Again the filmmakers aren't letting us experience the goal of the protagonist: To make money to save her family home back in the US.
Her father only after 55 mins into the film realises his daughter's phone is Arturo's phone? really?
Overall because of the protagonist's awful acting and the badly written stakes for her and her family back home I never felt gripped by the story at all.
I gotta talk about the other acting, Mother of God!!!!!! the lead actress in this film, her acting is dreadful....I mean REALLY, REALLY bad, she has one look on her face for almost the entire film. She has zero range of emotion, how was she cast as the lead for this???? LOL. She is painful to watch.
Theres a few things in this film that are brushed over/vague: The opening montage of the woman "stealing" credit card info, how does she do it, she all of a sudden has all these credit cards she's swiping the info of. The montage would be so much more compelling if we experienced her trying to steal them, why? because there are immediate stakes attached, she'd get caught, the police would get involved and it would likely go right up to the scam ring her mother and partner are running and they'd ultimately lose their house...and there in brings my next point..
..I'm 50 mins into this film and the last time I saw the protagonist in the US her and her mother were going to lose the family home, the protagonists motivation for making money after being deported is to keep her home in the states, like any normal human being in that situation, but surely by the end of the second act the house is about to get repossessed, but I've no idea whats happening, whats the status on her home? just bad storytelling. Dear writer of this film: If you're going to set up stakes that are supposed to drive the story of the film you HAVE to pay it off in some way, let us the viewer experience the stakes coming to pass or the stakes being overcome - Screenwriting 101!
What exactly was the woman doing for the bad guy, it's vague, there's no context to it? How does she do it? What's her role in it? Like the credit card stealing it's all quickly brushed over and felt lazy. There's money exchange involved but what is the protagonist's involvement to it? Again the filmmakers aren't letting us experience the goal of the protagonist: To make money to save her family home back in the US.
Her father only after 55 mins into the film realises his daughter's phone is Arturo's phone? really?
Overall because of the protagonist's awful acting and the badly written stakes for her and her family back home I never felt gripped by the story at all.