Sultanes del Sur (2007)

Director:

Alejandro Lozano

Guionista:

Tony Dalton (writer)

Release Date:

21 diciembre 2007 (Mexico)

Genre:

Action | Crime | Drama

Frase comercial:

Hide your money, the Sultans are coming.

Plot:

A band of thieves steal from a Mexican bank and travel to Argentina to launder the money. Upon their arrival the plan goes south and it's up to them to figure out what went wrong. |

Comentarios de los usuarios:

It wanted to be original but came out generic

Cast

Tony Dalton	...	Carlos Sanchez
Jordi Mollà	...	Leonardo Batiz
Ana de la Reguera	...	Monica Silvari
Silverio Palacios	...	Leserio Dominguez
Celso Bugallo	...	El Tejano
Oscar Alegre	...	Pablo Benes
Juan Carlos Remolina	...	Juan
Brian Maya	...	El Pibe
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Mario Alarcón	...	Capitán Aduanal
Luis Altamirano	...	Óscar
Alejandra Barros	...	Turista en avion
Rosa María Bianchi	...	Mamá
Claudia Caballero	...	Miron en el robo
Marco Polo Constandse	...	Muchacho con champagne
Teresa Davila	...	Miron en el robo
Sofia Fernández	...	Niña
Brenda Garcia	...	Miron en el robo
Maria Fernanda Guerrero	...	Miron en el robo
Daniel Jacobs	...	Joven afuera del bar
José Alberto López	...	Miron en el robo
Alejandro Lozano	...	Borracho en la barra
Coni Mariño	...	Rosa
Raúl Méndez	...	Miron en el robo
Polina Panopoulus	...	Miron en el robo
Marcelo Piraino	...	Guero
Oliver Pliego	...	Delincuente arrestado
Bill Rovzar	...	Turista en aduana
Fernando Rovzar	...	Joven afuera del bar
Erica Sánchez Su	...	Miron en el robo
Juan Jose Saravia	...	Borracho perdido en el bar
Alexandre Themistocleous	...	Muchacho en V.I.P.
Gustavo Tieffenberg	...	Miron en el robo
Pilar Ureta	...	Aeromosa
Rocío Verdejo	...	Miron en el robo
Leonardo Zimbrón	...	Miron en el robo

También conocida como:

Sultans of the South (USA) (literal English title)

Duración:

Germany:98 min (European Film Market)

País:

Mexico | Spain

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Filming Locations:

Argentina

Company:

Castelao Producciones

It wanted to be original but came out generic

That's the way I would describe this film...It is true that not many(none?)action films are done in Mexico but it isn't just about trying, if that were the case then everybody could do film-making. From the producers of Matando Cabos comes this (well intended?)action film that pretends to be original but in it's effort it results more generic than everything, first of all Tony Dalton's screenplay is way to thin to even sustain a film of 90 minutes, you can tell he wanted to have lots of surprise moments in his film but instead of feeling like smart twists the plot feels full of inconsistencies and as if the screenwriter thought "well what then" and suddenly a twist for the plot came to his mind. The use of music while adequate at some moments becomes excessive and the film relies way too much on it to create an atmosphere and I say create not enhance. One thing you can't say, and it is that the director didn't put style in the film, he uses every angle & shot he knows in the film whether it is to compensate for the lack of substance or just to show his "film skills" I don't know but I think is the latter.Now about the acting the only rescuable performance is Jordi Mollá's in his brief role, Dalton and De LaReguera are adequate but then again the screenplay doesn't help that much and Silverio Palacios as in Matando Cabos plays the cool guy.The action sequences don't stand for something new or groundbreaking and some are excessively long and some could've been just avoided but then again the had to fill time since the screenplay couldn't. A movie to watch just if there's nothing better to do, and if you wan't to check out Tony Dalton's work you better watch Matando Cabos which even when it thinks of itself as original but owes lots of films, still is way more fun and entertaining than Sultanes del Sur.