El Chicano

Name: El Chicano
Genre: Drama
Released: May 3, 2019
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 46
Cast: Adolfo Alvarez, Aimee Garcia, Bobby Jerome Izat, David Castaneda, Jose Pablo Cantillo

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Briarcliff Entertainment | Release Date: May 3, 2019 | R

Starring: Adolfo Alvarez, Aimee Garcia, Bobby Jerome Izat, David Castaneda, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Kate del Castillo, Logan Arevalo, Marlene Forté, Raúl Castillo, Roberto Garcia, Tim Gerwing, Tom Carey

Summary: When L.A.P.D. Detective Diego Hernandez is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel, he uncovers links to his brother’s supposed suicide and a turf battle that’s about to swallow his neighborhood. Torn between playing by the book and seeking justice, he resurrects the masked street legend El Chicano. Now, out to takeWhen L.A.P.D. Detective Diego Hernandez is assigned a career-making case investigating a vicious cartel, he uncovers links to his brother’s supposed suicide and a turf battle that’s about to swallow his neighborhood. Torn between playing by the book and seeking justice, he resurrects the masked street legend El Chicano. Now, out to take down his childhood buddy turned gang boss, he sets off a bloody war to defend his city and avenge his brother’s murder.… Expand

Director: Ben Bray

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: R

Runtime: 108 min

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Carlos Aguilar

May 2, 2019

Reminiscent of Hollywood cop movies from the ’80s, when masculinity came only in a macho shade, but propelled by the fresh winds of inclusion, El Chicano stands as a solidly acted and technically accomplished spectacle, the latter likely the result of Hernandez Bray’s time delivering stunt magic behind the scenes as a stunt coordinator. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Christy Lemire

May 3, 2019

Working alongside veteran screenwriter Joe Carnahan, who’s made his name with this kind of brash, muscular storytelling in films like “Narc” and “The Grey,” Hernandez Bray tries to get his arms around a lot at once. Quite often, he’s successful. Read full review

Bilge Ebiri

May 6, 2019

El Chicano is often exciting, but don’t expect to leave the theater riding an action movie high. Read full review

Bill Goodykoontz

May 2, 2019

It’s long on violence and short on storytelling. It aims high, working in the realm of myths, but it does so in hit-or-miss fashion. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 16, 2019

El Chicano feels less like a cut-rate version of a comic book movie than it does an insanely over-budgeted pitch video. Read full review

Vikram Murthi

May 2, 2019

The story never even grazes the sublime; it’s dull and banal, coasting on familiarity from beginning to end. Here, the clichés don’t celebrate a reunion. They’re at war. Read full review

Carla Meyer

May 1, 2019

Diego also lacks any nuance as a character. He is grim and humorless, like most everything else about this film. Read full review

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Emoticonmovie

May 5, 2019

Identity politics aside. This is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen, with poor acting and a horrifically predictable plot, this movie comes together to form what is only comparable to that of cold, expired chicken noodle soup. I really wanted this movie to be good, but itIdentity politics aside. This is probably one of the worst movies I have ever seen, with poor acting and a horrifically predictable plot, this movie comes together to form what is only comparable to that of cold, expired chicken noodle soup. I really wanted this movie to be good, but it honestly left me in utter shock. I exited the theater hoping for this to be some kind of cruel joke and that the real movie would begin after, but alas it did not. I genuinely do not understand how I cannot give this movie a negative rating, but I should be able to. No amount of money will ever buy the time I spent watching that disaster back, so my only advice to those reading this is to save theirs.… Expand

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