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Highly Overrated But Still Good

Fresh and Exciting

Best movie ever!

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Do you remember those cheap and awful straight to video movies PM Entertainment ground out in the 1990s before they got bigger budgets and better scripts and direction? Well, "Border Lost" shares a lot in common with those movies, only it makes those PM Entertainment movies look like masterpieces in comparison. It's appallingly cheap, with cinematography that strongly resembles what a VHS camcorder would grind out, and with little in the way of production values. There's hardly any story, with things stretched out long past the breaking point for an agonizing one hundred and five minutes in length. It's terribly acted, though in fairness to the cast the script gives them hardly anything in the way of character development and personality. There's almost no action, and what little there is wouldn't make expert action directors like Isaac Florentine or John Woo lose any sleep. The end result is a movie that's absolutely agonizing to watch. Why Mill Creek Entertainment thought that this movie was worth a re-release on DVD, I cannot say.

If someone would have spent the extra few grand on putting this movie on film instead of video, I think the impression of this movie would be better. The music tracks were not always appropriate for the scenes and both the acting and editing could have been even marginally improved for a much greater return on the movie's overall quality. I would say that it is not even remotely good as it stands, but such little things could have taken it so much closer to being acceptable. I think the fact that it has to do with Mexico just reminds me all that much more of Spanish day-time TV. Oh, and they also filmed it like a bad soap opera, most of the time without even a tripod.

The 1st scene in this film was great, and had me hooked with the insight of a new storyline and approach to the (IMO overdone) Mexican border scripts that have made it into the movie scene over the years.After the 1st scene and intro the movie quickly became B grade, with bad acting from the majority of the cast, something you would expect with a lower budget film and first time movie actors.The other disappointing factor of this film is that scenes jumped left and right, and was very slow (after the intro), making it hard to follow any kind of storyline.The idea that was put behind the script was great, and in my opinion could have created a hit in the movie scene, however the casting and script itself damaged this potential.I rated it 3 out of 10 because the potential was there, and the opening scene was good, along with the intro that sucked me into thinking this movie was going to be worth watching. 140 minutes of my life i am not getting back.

Im not gonna get into too many details cause most of you haven't seen it yet.The best part of this movie is right at the start. Its a scene where a few Mexican woman and children try to cross the US border. After this it gets hard to keep watching. The overall bad acting, bad shooting scenes, what actually is there not to find bad about this movie?? There are A and B quality movies and this one adds the F quality. Waste of time and waste of money(making it and watching it)even if it's a Monday night.I rated it 2 out of 10 for the trouble.