Gringo Film Review

Finished watching Gringo, directed by Nash Edgerton, and starring David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron and Thandie Newton. The film opens with Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) traveling to Mexico with is bosses Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) and Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) on a business assignment to check on the manufacturing for their company's product. While in Mexico Harold soon discovers that his bosses what to get rid of him and that his wife, Bonnie (Thandie Newton) is having an affair which leads to Harold traveling to a cheap hotel where he plans to get money of his employers by faking a kidnapping only for things to spiral out of control when the Cartel mistake him for being the boss of the company he works for due to the company having a worked with the Cartel. Overall this was a decent film as does a good job in in having multiple stories centring around different characters that all flow into one another extremely well and are each used to inform and are affected by each other. The comedy while good it doesn't always hit its mark as some jokes fall a little flat in places. 6.5/10.