So, this is my first review I've ever done for any movie on IMDb. I saw this movie at the premiere in East Los Angeles, and for the audience or demographic that this movie was made for it worked. However, on the grand scheme of it all I think this movie was a very politically biased movie that served more as liberal propaganda than anything else.
The film centers around two characters: Conservative radio talk show host who is against illegal immigration, and a Mexican-American girl who drives with her white boyfriend from Texas to California. During the course of the movie the radio host is kidnapped by Mexicans who wish to make a point on a illegal immigrants and thrown in the desert doused in BBQ sauce to die. While the girl is on the road she mistakingly gets arrested and deported near the Arizona border and thrown in the desert to fend for herself where she meets the radio host and through a course of events the radio host has an epiphany and sees the liberal light.
This movie is made by obviously a biased perspective: white people bad, Mexican people victims! The girl who was arrested an accused of being an illegal immigrant could've saved herself a lot of trouble had she provided her ID when the opportunities presented themselves, instead she chose to mouth off and throw expletives at police officers. The radio host made it clear that he had no problem against legal migrants who follow the law to get into this country his real problem were the people who were breaking the law to get into this country and coming illegally, and still the movie feels like it's forcing you to think that you should just accept it. Also, this movie portrayed the conservative radio host as an alocholic man with a broken family and a career on thin ice and yet every Hispanic in that movie as some angelic savior of the people who've become victimized by the status quo. In fact the one white person in the movie ( who happens to be an illegal Canadian immigrant) doesn't get caught and abandons his girlfriend after bringing her birth certificate to the police station for not wanting to get involved in a political maelstrom.
This movie works if you adhere to those beliefs and political views, but it is very much liberal propaganda! Although, there are some things in the movie that are touching such as the man who goes around leaving water in the desert for the immigrants who are taken advantage of and left in the desert. They talk about certain deaths that happen while trying to cross the border. But even in that the movie makes you feel like it's somehow the US's fault the people are dying in the desert. The movie doesn't even attempt to take a balanced approach on the issue of immigration reform. Overall I give it 4 stars. The actors were not bad and the story was well written all things considered. If you're Mexican and children of immigrants you might like this movie and feel vindicated that the white people had it handed to them in this film.
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