NekoHomey Purely Joyful Movie!

Nessieldwi Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Rio Hayward All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Kaydan Christian A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

TxMike I was able to watch this movie at home on BluRay from my public library. The story mainly concerns a character played by David Oyelowo. He is Harold, a dedicated, serious, hard-working employee of a firm located in Chicago. His "best friend" runs the company, but as things unfold we see that his friend is duplicitous and will do anything for the bottom line.Harold goes to Mexico but finds out his company sale is imminent and he will be out of a job. Industriously he plots to fake his own kidnapping in an attempt to get a big severance for himself. $5Million sounds pretty good, doesn't it?Yet nothing goes as it should, the mess gets bigger and bigger. It is a dark comedy, lots of funny stuff but characters get shot and killed. While I enjoyed it as an interesting diversion, with very good actors, in total it isn't a particularly good movie.

anniebeer-59101 Allot of good actors, but such a messy plot. Not really a gripping movie.

SnoopyStyle Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) is going broke from his wife. His arrogant boss Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) assures him of his job despite the rumors. Rusk and Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) are co-Presidents of a drug company which has been selling to the Mexican drug lord, the Black Panther, under the table. With a merger coming, they need to stop the flow to correct the inventory count. They bring Harold along to Mexico to stop the sales. Later, they are back at the offices where they receive a call from Harold's kidnappers. Meanwhile, Miles (Harry Treadaway) agrees to be a drug mule for $20k and he brings along his girlfriend Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) to Mexico.Joel Edgerton's brother Nash is the director. These actors are stepping into black comedy area. It's hit and miss and mostly miss. Oyelowo slowly wins me over with his flustered performance. Theron is too much. Miles and Sunny could be cut out. A lot of this is close but not close enough. The plot is overly messy. I would rather concentrate on Oyelowo and clean up some of the other threads. Maybe Nash does not have enough to make this work.

gradyharp Now and then along comes a film with a star-studded cast that is the incentive to watch or buy the DVD only to discover the cast has very little to do with this mess of a 'dark comedy.' Very briefly, Gringo joyrides into Mexico, where mild-mannered businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) finds himself at the mercy of his backstabbing business colleagues (Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron), local drug lords and a morally conflicted black-ops mercenary (Sharlto Copley). Crossing the line from law-abiding citizen to wanted criminal, Harold battles to survive his increasingly dangerous situation in ways that raise the question: Is he out of his depth - or two steps ahead?Before this all guns and grossly insulting filthy dialogue comes after what appears on paper to be a potential crime corruption exercise between US and Mexico. 'In the offices of a pharmaceutical company called Promethium, we see the CEO Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) being interrupted from having sex with his co-boss Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) by a phone call. Richard answers to hear his friend and employee, Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo), crying for help, claiming he has been kidnapped in Mexico and that his abductors are demanding a ransom of $5 million. We go back to two days earlier where Harold is merely a mild-mannered rep for Promethium, living in Chicago and married to Bonnie (Thandie Newton). He meets with his accountant, who tells him that because of Bonnie's reckless spending, they are broke. When he gets to work, Harold is told by Richard that the two of them, plus Elaine, are going to be flying to Mexico to handle business involving a company merger, although Harold doesn't know that it's supposed to be a merger. Harold goes into Richard's office and finds a file on his computer that he copies to his own drive. Elsewhere in the city is a guitar shop run by Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) and her boyfriend Miles (Harry Treadaway). A friend of Miles, Nelly (Paris Jackson), enters the shop to tell Miles that someone down in Mexico wants him to smuggle some drugs into the U.S. He agrees to it and decides to take Sunny with him.' And that is about all there is.Charlize Theron is a co-producer of this noisy hypersexual pottymouth romp. The film didn't do well - for obvious reasons. Grady Harp, June 18