A small group of documentary filmmakers chronicle the trials and inequities faced by Mexican illegal immigrants.
When they join a group of families illegally crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained.
What happens next plunges their group into unimaginable horror.......
So the basic premise is simple, Mexicans try and cross the border into USA, and some make it, some get sent back, and others get caught by Peter Stormare and his masked henchman.
And if you get caught by the latter, you spend the rest of the film either getting tortured, questioned, or put in a room that looks really comfortable.
It's a sound idea, but it would have been a lot more convincing if this was full on found footage horror, not half and half like it is here. The film tries to be topical, tries to send a message of everyone is equal no matter who they are etc., but alas, it turns into torture porn, and spoils its good intentions.
The cast are okay, but they spend the entire movie panicking, in pain, or giving their captors a little bit of attitude before they in turn, act nice before torturing them.
And that's literally the film, a good idea, but it plays it too safe and goes down the normal horror route.
When they join a group of families illegally crossing the border to record the experience firsthand, their truck is pulled over and detained.
What happens next plunges their group into unimaginable horror.......
So the basic premise is simple, Mexicans try and cross the border into USA, and some make it, some get sent back, and others get caught by Peter Stormare and his masked henchman.
And if you get caught by the latter, you spend the rest of the film either getting tortured, questioned, or put in a room that looks really comfortable.
It's a sound idea, but it would have been a lot more convincing if this was full on found footage horror, not half and half like it is here. The film tries to be topical, tries to send a message of everyone is equal no matter who they are etc., but alas, it turns into torture porn, and spoils its good intentions.
The cast are okay, but they spend the entire movie panicking, in pain, or giving their captors a little bit of attitude before they in turn, act nice before torturing them.
And that's literally the film, a good idea, but it plays it too safe and goes down the normal horror route.