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Gringo (2018)

Action | Crime 
Rayting:   6.1/10 27.2K votes
Country: Australia | USA
Language: English | Spanish
Release date: 22 March 2018

GRINGO, a dark comedy mixed with white knuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) when he finds himself crossing the line from law abiding citizen to wanted criminal.

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Hellmant 22 March 2018

'GRINGO': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

An action-comedy about an American businessman that's handling the business of a marijuana pill in Mexico, for his American employers, when he's kidnapped by the cartel there. The film stars David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, Sharlto Copley, Amanda Seyfried and Thandie Newton. It was directed by Nash Edgerton (Joel's brother), and scripted by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. The film has gotten mostly negative reviews from critics, and it's also bombed at the Box Office as well. I was also not impressed by it.

Harold Soyinka (Oyelowo) is a down on his luck businessman, who works for Cannabix Technologies Inc.. His employers have developed a medical marijuana 'Weed Pill', and they send Harold to Mexico to handle the manufacturing of it there. The Mexican cartel wants the technology for itself though, so they kidnap Harold and demand a ransom (or so it seems). Harold's bosses (Edgerton and Theron) send a professional (Copley) in to Mexico to rescue him. Things don't go as planned though.

The movie is overly complicated, dull and uninvolving. It's a shame too, because the cast is fantastic. I really wanted to like it, and root for another Edgerton to succeed (Joel is doing amazing, he's cast in everything it seems). I couldn't wait for the film to be over though, and I found very little of it to be amusing or funny at all. Even when Sharlto Copley enters the movie, he couldn't breathe any new life into it!

imseeg 19 April 2019

Fmovies: Wow. Really got surprised by this story, which started out quite calm, with some soft erotic scenes with Charlize Theron. Then the story became quite suspenseful, with lots of funny unexpected plot turns, some of which were a bit far fetched though, but still quite enjoyable to watch. The final of this story spirals into one of the best and bizarre gangster action scenes I have seen in recent years: riveting thrilling action, some of which is quite dark, yet kinda funny simultaneously as well.

Truly exhilarating, out of control gangster story, which is way better than the average gangster movies out there. I suspect some of the low rated Imdb reviews originated from viewers who were expecting a fullblown straight comedy, which it isnt. Most of the acting is done quite seriously. It is kinda funny, but more in a dark kind of way, with a few gruesome violent scenes as well, which might shock some comedy lovers.

The story is about Charlize Theron and Noel Edgerton, who are playing 2 corporate directors of an American firm that is doing some dirty business in Mexico. The way in which everything finally spirals totally out of control, with gangster shootouts in Mexico, is truly riveting and tongue in cheek funny. Highly recommended to all the true fans of the quirky gangster genre!

view_and_review 10 March 2018

A straight-laced, play-by-the-book, honest Nigerian named Harold (David Oleyowo) is getting dumped on by everyone he knows: his boss Richard (Joel Edgerton), his wife Bonnie (Thandie Newton) and even his boss's partner Elaine (Charlize Theron). If you want to call him a good man that wants to do the right thing and please everybody then you can call him that. If you want to call him a sap that is ninja level naive then I would say that's a better description. He is so trusting and naive it's nauseating. The company he works for is involved in some illegal dealings and things go awry when he and his superiors go to Mexico.

To put it simply: I wasn't feeling this movie, not even from the beginning. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it an action? Is it a crime mystery? I was lost hence I didn't know how to treat the movie. One thing it wasn't, it wasn't good. It was full of hyperbole characters that you were supposed to love or hate: I hated them all--including the main character. Harold was so gullible he bordered on special needs. His boss, Richard, possessed every trait that you'd hate in a person which made him uber-unlikeable. His boss's partner, Elaine, had an ambiguous role in the movie but she certainly was a living, breathing setback for the #metoo movement. And Harold's wife, Bonnie, seemed to be in the movie only to complete the picture of how naive and pathetic Harold was.

The plot was not much better than the characters. It was a David and Goliath/Little Engine that Could/Underdog story that wasn't told any better than the millions of movies with such a plot before it. I think if the movie went all out comedy it would have been so much better. They were already using caricatures for the characters and there were a few funny scenes so they should have gone even more extreme with it and then we'd have something. But instead they were stuck somewhere between "to be funny or not to be funny? That is the question." So they just failed.

markhappyboy 22 May 2018

Gringo fmovies. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie! And do you know why? Because it was fun!! I didn't laugh out loud much but certainly had a smile on my face almost throughout the duration of the film. I don't think anyone has the right to tell anybody on here not to watch a movie as we all have different tastes, but I certainly had fun watching this One.

cdcrb 9 March 2018

Read the review by "scattershooting" to get the gist of the movie. I just want to add, that while I don't disagree with the review, I want to encourage you to see the film. it is well written and acted and you'll have a good time. it's a movie after all. it's not a sin to aim too high.

eileensearcy 19 January 2019

This movie was really funny and full of talented actors. Daniel Oyelowo holds it all together as the hapless protagonist. A cavalcade of goofy criminals and clever plot twists and turns keep it speeding along at a fast clip. Loads of fun.

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