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JoelDavid
Reviews
Down for the Barrio (1996)
What a shame
I have seen a number of Cesar Alejandro's films and this, his first 35mm, is typical of how bad they are. It's a bunch of people spending a lot of time and effort that would be better used...doing anything else. They always look and sound as if they've been chopped together on the fly with a porn music sound track. If you were trying to make a bad movie you couldn't do this well. Forced situations, stilted dialogue, poor acting, atrocious scripts. He always stars, directs and writes and it shows. This one was particularly insulting to Hispanics. The only saving grace is occasionally you get an interesting camera shot. Mario Becerra probably has to fight tooth and nail to get it in there. By the time this one was over I had a stomachache. Do NOT rent it and don't bother with any Peliculas Alexandria movies. Trust me.
Down for the Barrio (1996)
What a shame
I have seen a number of Cesar Alejandro's films and this, his first 35mm, is typical of how bad they are. It's a bunch of people spending a lot of time and effort that would be better used...doing anything else. They always look and sound as if they've been chopped together on the fly with a porn music sound track. If you were trying to make a bad movie you couldn't do this well. Forced situations, stilted dialogue, poor acting, atrocious scripts. He always stars, directs and writes and it shows. This one was particularly insulting to Hispanics. The only saving grace is occasionally you get an interesting camera shot. Mario Becerra probably has to fight tooth and nail to get it in there. By the time this one was over I had a stomachache. Do NOT rent it and don't bother with any Peliculas Alexandria movies. Trust me.