review by paul Pro
Get the Gringo 2012
Watched May 10, 2012
paul’s review:
This is confusing, this is snappily titled, "How I spent my Summer Vacation" in the UK. Though we do know what a Gringo is, so who knows why they changed it.
I really liked this. I reckon Mel must've been watching some Korean films as this totally feels like one. Ridiculous brutal violence, incompetent police, melodrama, comedy and tonally shifting all over the shop.
Gibson decent, the kid really good. The prison setting, absolutely insane. Had a blast with this, but I can predict this getting a lot of hate.
If this was Korean, it would be picking up 4 stars across the board.
I think a lot of the negative reviews are anti Mel Gibson statements. The same happened with the Beaver, a mad, under seen film. I'm personally looking forward to this.
You're review just sold me on this movie. Tracking it down as we speak.
Gonna have to see this over the weekend.
Actually the title was not made up for the european market, it was called this originally in the US, but was changed for some reason.
'gringo' is what we mexicans call the people from the US