Killing Cabos

2004 "A killer mob comedy."
7.4| 1h38m| R| en
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Two young men get involved with some criminals while trying to free the tycoon they kidnapped.

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Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Maidexpl Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast
Cooktopi The acting in this movie is really good.
Nicole I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
the guy on the couch (themoviecouch.blogspot.com) It would be an exaggeration to call this Mexican action-comedy "good." It is disjointed, full of stupid actions on the part of the principles, and the comedic tone is often thrown off by gratuitous violence. "Matando Cabos" is, however, a certain amount of fun.The titular Sr. Cabos is a psychopathic businessman known for fits of rage and brutality. In the process of attacking one of his employees, he trips and knocks himself unconscious. This puts the employee, who happens to be engaged to Sr. Cabos's daughter, in an awkward situation, especially when he goes for help, returns with his co-worker, and finds his still-unconscious boss inexplicably stripped to his underwear. There follows a wacky night of capers involving kidnappers, mistaken identities, two unconscious men, and professional wrestlers. If "Weekend at Bernie's" had been in Spanish, had two bodies instead of one, and periodically degenerated into graphic violence, it would have been "Matando Cabos."Tony Dalton and Kristoff, who play the two leads, play their characters as a couple of goofballs, and are nothing special. Nor do Ana Claudia Talancon and Rocio Verdejo, the two main actresses, do anything to distinguish themselves other than look good. It is Joaquin Cosio and Silverio Palacios, who play the wrestlers Mascarita and Tony the Cannibal, who make the movie. These guys carry themselves with a cool and confidence that makes them the center of every scene. It actually makes no sense that these two would be willing to spend a night risking their lives for a guy they haven't talked to in years, but that's part of what I liked about the characters. They are the kind of guys that if a friend calls, they will show up, ready for anything.
Claudio Carvalho In Mexico City, the powerful and violent magnate of steel Oscar Cabos (Pedro Armendáriz Jr.) surprises his daughter Paulina (Ana Claudia Talancón) having sex with her boyfriend and his employee Javier "Jaque" (Tony Dalton) and he works Jaque over. On the next day, Jaque pays a visit to Cabos in his office and the angry man comes with a golf club to hit Jaque again. However, Cabo accidentally treads on a golf ball, falls on the floor and faints. Jaque calls his best friend Mudo (Kristoff) to help him, but the janitor Nacho (Pedro Altamirano) finds his boss fainted on the floor and he steals and dresses his clothes and jewels. Meanwhile, Nacho's son Botcha (Raúl Méndez) and his friend Nico (Gustavo Sánchez Parra) have planned to kidnap Cabos and they are waiting for him in the garage. When he arrives in the place, the two kidnappers hit him on the back, believing that he is Cabos, and they wear a hood covering his face. They head with the abducted man to the house of Botcha's girlfriend Lula (Rocío Verdejo). Meanwhile, Jaque and Mudo calls their wrestler friend Ruben "Mascarita" (Joaquín Cosio) and his midget partner Tony 'El Cannibal' (Silverio Palacios) to help them to get rid of Cabos in his birthday party. But both plans do not work well along the night."Matando Cabos" is a gem of dark humor and one of the funniest comedies that I have recently seen. This comedy of errors has a wonderful and original screenplay, and the situations are unpredictable and hilarious. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Matando Cabos" ("Killing Cabos")
Jay Harris My summary may seem somewhat harsh,as so many seemed to enjoy this,There are a few likable scenes,but not enough to warrant a thumbs up from me.Alejandro Lozano directed. It was written by Tony Dalton & Kristoff. these 2 gentlemen also are 2 of the leads.There are very few likable persons in this farce of a mistaken kidnapping.I found nothing funny about the excessive needless violence.Now I do like violent movies,but here it was overdone. It also needed a more likable kidnap victims.I also like wrestling,the few bits here do not come over. I will stop now,if I write more I may have to lower my rating even further.Ratings: **1/2 (out of 4)66 points (out of 100) IMDb 6 (out of 10)
RichardKleiner In a visual style reminiscent to "Snatch" and cultural references similar to "Pulp Fiction", Mexico does an attempt at making a neo-noir smash hit comedy. It worked! Having a classic but very funny mix-up plot, you add excellent in-jokes and situations that crack you up all over the night. Average acting, like Tony Dalton's, added to Kristoff Racynsky's humorous persona makes this a very good piece of Mexican cinema. My favorite scenes were the cross-eyed "microbusero", the bar brawl and the "damned bird" that wont shut up. As it was expected, the dialog is plagued with cursing, sometimes being funny and others exploiting some curse words way too much. Anyway, the car chase scene in the Ztec stadium is beautiful. The only thing that kept me from praising completely was the ending. It was very disappointing. Tony "the cannibal" was a completely useless character, and all we see him actually do (the bar brawl not included) is him sleeping with Cabos' wife. I personally would have enjoyed him kicking Cabos' ass when he encounters him in the bedroom, instead of beating his poor friend up. That was more cruel than funny. And I would have loved to see the cross-eyed "microbusero" once again.With some minor flaws, this is the best Maxican film recently. Too bad the same production company was the same to give us "Km 31"