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Too much of everything

Absolutely brilliant

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Blistering performances.

While watching El Infierno, and despite the fact that I was laughing out loud, I couldn't help to be really depressed. Here is a movie that depicts a reality that thousands of people live every day, towns that have been devastated by the drug cartels, corruption by the authorities of the highest rank and perhaps the fact most difficult to bear, that with drugs you can get rich and have sex and luxury, even if you have to sell your soul and life in the process. All the actors hit the right mark, specially Damian Alcazar (whom is Luis Estrada's muse, first appearing in the equally compelling and sarcastic "La Ley de Herodes") at the beginning as a naive assistant, and then as a ruthless assassin capable of anything but betray family. We Mexicans have the curious ability of laughing of ourselves and our misfortunes, but Estrada show us the limit. We know that this happens for real in practically all the northern states and even though, we can laugh and enjoy the sarcastic commentaries, the jokes at the expense of corrupt politics and even the depiction of a controlling wife and mother (that is a given in Mexico: matriarchy) This is not to say that I didn't like the movie, it is flawless, entertaining and very, very real. Every person in Mexico should watch this movie although it is a little violent.

This movie from Director Luis Estrada, who ten years ago made "La Ley de Herodes", now surprises us with a film that is both funny (in a very dark way) and sadly real, about one of the biggest problems our nation is facing nowadays: The narcotraffic and the violence derived from it.It follows the story of Benjamin García AKA "El Benny" (a very good as usual Damian Alcazar), who comes back to his town after 20 years living in the USA as an illegal, just to see his already impoverished town even worse than how he left it, now under the Drug War, at first he doesn't want to get involved in that business, but then sees it as an opportunity to make big money and then come back to the Staes, a dream tat soon becomes a nightmare.If you get the chance to watch it I recommend it just to understand the roots and development of this cancer, that being honest, is as much USA's fault as Mexico's, cause the Americans are the main consumers and their government has done little to nothing to reduce consumption.

If there is one thing true about this movie is that everything flows through corruption, even the Mexican film industry. This film shows nothing new, (it only reasserts the fact, regardless of the plot, that people only want to watch bloodshed and a bit of soft porn, and even that, the easiest task, is poorly achieved considering the crimes drug-lords have done through this past decade; I can assure that its not out of consideration to the victims family) on the contrary, it distracts the viewer from what is really important and tries to soften it with bad and harmful jokes. Drug-lords are not like this movie shows them, there are more than 2 links between drug-lords and small-time drug-dealers. No one could change so easily between sides. And the ending is nothing more than old fashioned political propaganda; to any viewer Mexico would seem like the 1940's, fat corrupt officers, drug-lords sons of bitches, whores in every town. The filmmakers only watched the news for a couple of days and believed they know how everything goes, Mexico is really worse than that.

I assure you that this movie's legacy will still be talked about in decades to come. Certainly, the sole fact that this movie came to be speaks wonders of how great cinema can be made in Mexico, together with its box-office companion, "Hidalgo".There is a little something for everyone: emotional dilemmas, intellectual reflection, and scenes so well composed that they're worthy of being shown in film schools. For the general public, the tasteful black comedy, the strong symbolic images, as well as the numerous occasions it gives for yelling "burn!!" (or "pedradas", in Spanish) will be the most memorable.The ideas behind the making of this movie are definitely genius, but it still should be taken with a grain of salt. It is a very simplified view of the lower levels of the narco industry, as it only portrays the case of how a small rural town, with typical small-town values and small-town conservatism, is affected. The movie has been warmly received by the Mexican public, who after only seeing the consequences of this battle against narco forces, have no idea of what this narco business really is about, and crave any type of inside scoop they can get their hands on.This movie presents what feels like great insight in an easily digestible way.