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Sultanes del Sur (2007)

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about Dr, Alec comment, 22 enero 2008

Author: ElFilme de Spain

And you think you know what you are talking about???????? Please "Dr Alec"!!!!!! As an average audience for this movie, I find your comment kind of malicious and a comment extended more by jealousy than genuine intentions to construct. With out disregarding or arguing your opinion, I have to say I respectfully disagree with what you are saying. And more than that I think that sultanes del sur is an excellent job, The ending I love, it's a great twist that if you look at the movie (more than once) you will find that the story prepares you for that ending. From the very beginning you are told what Silverios plan was. And most people don't get it till the end… That's a genuine surprise. And regarding the originality of the picture I have to say that I haven't seen an original picture in a long time… Most story lines were exposed and developed since Shakespeare. And I have to say I haven't seen an action picture like this in Latin America Cinema. Its extremely well made, characters are, as you mentioned well acted (despite the fact that you didn't like the story) In my opinion they didn't have an academy award script, but also the filmmakers and Tony Dalton DIDN'T PRETEND TO HAVE ONE!!! Its an ACTION PICTURE!!!!! not "Little Miss Sunshine", or "Talk to her"…. Its an outstanding effort to create an entertaining picture, a well made, well developed, well acted, fun to watch, and a magnificent display of visual content and combination of music and image. Fun plot, and Fun set-up. I think that Mexicans are too vicious and pretentious with there own product and too easy going with American product… This is a Frenetic action picture… a work of art in its genre… and A great effort to make Mexican Cinema that is not pretentious and ego director driven material that nobody else understand and care about. My sincere congratulations to the filmmakers…… And Dr. Alec… next Mexican picture you watch… please go to the movies with out the idea that you will see "Cañitas", or "hasta el viento tiene Miedo" … perhaps then you will find originality for NORMAL PEOPLE… and maybe.. you can have some fun…

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It wanted to be original but came out generic, 29 diciembre 2007

Author: Dr_Alec_Harvey de Mexico

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.

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