Curapedi I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.

Kamila Bell This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

hackraytex As my title says, it could have been better. I was looking for a western and I had the impression that this was a western, not! I do appreciate the subtitles but there was not enough dialogue to carry the story and flesh out the plot. I am a devoted fan of westerns, independent westerns, and westerns set in other counties and this may have been called a "modern" western but it does not rise to that either. I recognized Alice Braga since she is one of the stars of Queen Of The South. I can see a great effort was made and the production values were good but I can't say more than that. Better luck next time.

adonis98-743-186503 A mysterious man emerges from the Argentinean rainforest to help a poor farmer and his daughter, who are threatened by a band of mercenaries hired to force them to sell their land. take over his property. El Ardor is a film that has 2 really good actors Gael Garcia Bernal and Alice Braga unfortunately the film is not good it's not interesting and also it copies other movies like Rambo and Tarzan for some reason our main hero is weird and has a pretty weird tattoo in his back it is simply not an original movie with an original plot also the Mercenaries were very laughable the only reason i will give it an 3.5 out of 10 it's because some shots with the tiger and Bernal and the locations were actually very cool other than that skip it.

Tom Dooley Set in the Argentinean rain forest this is part western and part eco tale. It stars one of my favourite actors Gael García Bernal, as Kai, and he also co produced it. We have a poor subsistence farming family who are targeted by nasty thugs working for a land grab company – we are never sure what their ultimate aim is. Kai ends up going to rescue the abducted daughter of one of the farmers but in so doing puts himself on a collision course with the evil ones.Now this has a few clichés in it and has borrowed heavily from other films in the western genre. The action is limited, but when it happens it is well done. The cinematography is lovely – but hard to go wrong when you have the bounty of a rain forest at your feet– probably. The performances are all above average too but where it falls down is the thin story line. It is good versus bad with next to no ambiguity at all and almost no back story – this makes it hard to put everything into context. That said I still enjoyed the watch – but would not want to see again, so a rental option here methinks. Original title is 'El Ardor' and filmed in Spanish with good to average sub titles and a run time of 96m minutes; this is one for those that like the sides nice and firmly drawn and appreciate some good old fashioned retribution.

angelsunchained This movie is a mess! It takes from so many past films and creates a film which is clinch ridden. The main character is a mixture of Tom Sawyer (Look Ma, no shoes!), Tarzan (he speaks to tigers), Rambo (jungle warfare expert who uses nature to defeat well-armed opponents) and Clint Eastwood in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly (starring and squinting). The bad guys are stereotypes of characters right out of Deliverence, The Road, and Rolling Thunder. The story plot is so stupid that it is really hard to believe; a gang of killers who are working for an unnamed boss, attempt to steal land composing of two wooden shacks in the dense jungle with no one around for miles. The hero keeps removing his shirt,yet wears a hippie style leather necklace and has a strange looking tattoo on his back which looks like an ocean wave. Also, ninety percent of the dialogue consists if heavy breathing and moaning. All the characters are flat and stiff. There is no chemistry what so ever between any of them. They just like and stare, and wear filthy dirty clothes and never shower. This movie is a real stinker. I only gave it a four because the photography is beautiful and I liked the stupid showdown at the end.