2010 · comedy · crime · satire
El Infierno
Directed by Luis Estrada2h 28m2010
After being deported back to Mexico, a man has no choice but to join the vicious drug cartel that has corrupted his hometown in order to survive.
Our read: El Infierno (2010) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded comedy · crime · satire entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme comedy / crime, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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“You want a savage Mexican cartel satire that laughs then breaks your nerve.”
Skip it tonight — You cannot handle cartel brutality, dark comedy cruelty, or a long Spanish epic.
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