Gringo
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.
25 April 1984, New York City, New York, USA
10 September 1984, Exeter, Devon, England, UK
1 April 1976, Oxford, England, UK
3 April 1998, Los Angeles, California, USA
May 20, 2018
It's hard for me to go into detail about why I did not enjoy "Gringo" as much as I wanted, or even as I feel I should have. It's one of those things you can't really put a finger on...you just know you didn't like it.April 22, 2018
Gringo has some real snap to the action scenes, and just the right level of craziness.March 09, 2018
It can't decide whether it wants to be magnificently toxic or merely mediocre.March 20, 2018
The general tone is soulless. [Full Review in Spanish]March 09, 2018
Dust off those spec scripts, all you as-yet-unsuccessful scribes - Hollywood's apparently paying anyone these days.March 09, 2018
Director Nash Edgerton and screenwriters Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone do a fine job of juggling the multiple story lines, moving things along at an entertaining clip.March 09, 2018
Movies like this need to be airtight, but "Gringo" is a flimsy piece of pulp fiction.March 09, 2018
'Pleasant surprise' might be a misnomer for Gringo.May 18, 2018
A movie created by someone who has ever actually been to Mexico and thought to pay attention to more than kidnapping scares and cartel nightmares.March 19, 2018
Cacophonous action and Charlize Theron: ideal plan for a Saturday night. [Full review in Spanish]March 09, 2018
I left the theater vaguely annoyed - as if the filmmakers had thrown away some promising ideas and elements in weaving together a thoroughly generic chase movie and pretending it's something special by employing ineffective stylistic choices.April 10, 2018
The presence of this film can only be compared to, if anything, finding the expiration date of a newly purchased item to be ten or twenty years old. [Full Review in Spanish]