This movie is the unfortunate result of a bunch of Italian-Americans deciding it would fun to dress up and pretend they're actually Cuban, with exactly the shallow and inauthentic results that anyone could expect. The fake accents are awful, and each actor and actress manages to make it awful in a different way - even the fakery isn't consistent. This carries over to everyone mispronouncing the names of major characters. Major cringe.
The general plot is depressingly predictable: impoverished guy wants to make it big, does a bunch of crime, chases the pretty lady, and a bunch of people get shot. But starting from the intro, the producers want to impress how very common it is for violent Cubans to enter the US ... and perhaps they believed their own lie to the extent that they were afraid to cast more than a few Cubans in background roles.
Much like the characters, the music was generic and completely lacking in any Cuban influence. Oh look, they found an Italian guy to write that too.
The general plot is depressingly predictable: impoverished guy wants to make it big, does a bunch of crime, chases the pretty lady, and a bunch of people get shot. But starting from the intro, the producers want to impress how very common it is for violent Cubans to enter the US ... and perhaps they believed their own lie to the extent that they were afraid to cast more than a few Cubans in background roles.
Much like the characters, the music was generic and completely lacking in any Cuban influence. Oh look, they found an Italian guy to write that too.