Im no expert about cartels, safe houses, border distances, or ratting people out, but this checks all of the boxes for unrealistic storylines. Our main character lives in Mexicali with her brother, a part time snitch who chose to snitch on the Cartell to border patrol for some quick cash. Gee, sounds like something someone would choose to do when low on funds vs ANYTHING ELSE IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE. It wasn't as if the bro had no choice,his mom is on a work visa sending money home so lil sis can make it through med school.
Surprise spolier: the cartel no likey snitches, so they kill the brother, the sister runs off after witnessing her brothers murder, while actively running drom the cartel she runs into a junkyard and viola: stumbles upon an abandoned tunnel system. No worries, the cartel gives up on chasing her and she continues running through the tunnel, the ENTIRE morning and winds up in the USA at none other than a safe house for informants against the cartel. What a coininkydinky. AND it just so happens the cartel has offered a million dollar bounty on this particular safehouses' inhabitants. Of course. To top it off, we get to see our super fast border tunnel runner show off her med school education by bandaging up an FBI agent who is near mortally wounded, after she digs her bare fingers and fishes out a slug. Bravo. She checks the agents pulse and declares her stabilized.
The whole movie is silly but worth the watch so you can giggle at the ridiculous story and direction. Look for the moment our med student emerges from the tunnels and shields her eyes repeatedly as if she has been in pure darkness for months (it was a couple hours but the timeline within the movie makes it seem she was only in there for a few blocks) Later during a car ride the entire area looks very remote and driving takes hours...seems like you could just take a tunnel faster..
Surprise spolier: the cartel no likey snitches, so they kill the brother, the sister runs off after witnessing her brothers murder, while actively running drom the cartel she runs into a junkyard and viola: stumbles upon an abandoned tunnel system. No worries, the cartel gives up on chasing her and she continues running through the tunnel, the ENTIRE morning and winds up in the USA at none other than a safe house for informants against the cartel. What a coininkydinky. AND it just so happens the cartel has offered a million dollar bounty on this particular safehouses' inhabitants. Of course. To top it off, we get to see our super fast border tunnel runner show off her med school education by bandaging up an FBI agent who is near mortally wounded, after she digs her bare fingers and fishes out a slug. Bravo. She checks the agents pulse and declares her stabilized.
The whole movie is silly but worth the watch so you can giggle at the ridiculous story and direction. Look for the moment our med student emerges from the tunnels and shields her eyes repeatedly as if she has been in pure darkness for months (it was a couple hours but the timeline within the movie makes it seem she was only in there for a few blocks) Later during a car ride the entire area looks very remote and driving takes hours...seems like you could just take a tunnel faster..