A weekend of fun becomes a fight for survival when three American women land in a Mexican jail. After being sexually molested by the guards, they attempt to escape with the help of a fellow prisoner.
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Greece
Germany18
Germany
Greece
This is a nice little actioner featuring Tia Carrere. It could have been better but the pacing was decent and Tia Carrere really held this thing together. Stuck in Mexico on trumped-up charges, the movie goes in a few directions that I wasn't expecting. Even so, it could have been a bit better.
Tia Carrere and friends head to Mexico for a weekend of fun, bad things happen. Goes in some real Jackson County Jail directions, none of which are good or entertaining. Another in a long line of “Don’t ever go anywhere, ever” movies.
A good chunk of the dialogue is in Spanish but only about a third of that is subtitled, which is frustrating.
Winter Trashfire 23/24 31/89 day 13 one with Tia Carrere
So there are these three american women, and they go to Tijuana to have some fun. Then, they get into a row of, well, unpleasant situations.
It's definitely not a bad movie, and it's quite suspenseful. However, I didn't enjoy it and I can't recommend it. It's bleak. "Uh" , you may say, "I sure dig some bleak realism." Well, go ahead, enjoy yourself. It's just not for me. (Also, well, many of the events may be linked to reality in some way, but how the movie deals with them is all in all a little far fetched. And if a movie doesn't try to be realistic I can't say why it should be bleak.)
(watched on youtube)
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The only positive from this is Carrere, whose portrayal of Nora provides an energetic enough heroine, pro-active rather than reactive. She especially seems so, when set beside her two travel-mates, who largely sit around bemoaning their fates. There's no particular reason why there need to be three women here at all; the others serve little purpose, except for an embarrassing subplot where one of them slept with the other's boyfriend. Not that this has any significant impact, thanks to the "sisters before misters" philosophy on view. If this had been a solo adventure for Nora, Carrere has the charisma to have pulled it off. Instead, we get an ill-conceived exercise, which can't figure out whether it wants to be liberal or conservative hogwash.
Suppose they let Sam Peckinpah direct Thelma & Louise, probably looks and acts a lot like this. Equal parts women-in-prison, rape-revenge, and survival thriller, the full sum of it an engrossingly nasty DTV exploitation transmission.
