Get the Gringo (2012) (original) (raw)

Driver is a career criminal who crashes his car while trying to escape from the United States Border Patrol in a high-speed car chase over the US-Mexico border. With a trunk full of cash and a bleeding body on his back seat, things aren't looking good for Driver, and he soon finds himself in El Pueblito, Mexico's toughest prison, where life is especially harsh for 'gringos'. However, Driver's bid for survival is unexpectedly aided by his friendship with a 10-year-old boy.

Driver is a career criminal who crashes his car while trying to escape from the United States Border Patrol in a high-speed car chase over the US-Mexico border. With a trunk full of cash and a bleeding body on his back seat, things aren't looking good for Driver, and he soon finds himself in El Pueblito, Mexico's toughest prison, where life is especially harsh for 'gringos'. However, Driver's bid for survival is unexpectedly aided by his friendship with a 10-year-old boy. (less)

Director: Adrian Grunberg
Writers: Mel Gibson, Stacy Perskie, Adrian Grunberg, Scotty Atkins
Starring: Mel Gibson, Peter Stormare, Bob Gunton, Kevin Balmore, Daniel Gim�nez Cacho, Dolores Heredia
Producer: Mel Gibson

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Review by Brian Orndorf, May 11, 2012

7 / 10

In recent years, Mel Gibson has proved himself to be a concentrated architect of pain. Throughout his entire career, the actor has always been drawn to human suffering, but lately it�s been an obsession, but I suppose audiences would expect nothing less from the once mighty Mad Max. �Get the Gringo� (titled �How I Spent my Summer Vacation� overseas) puts Gibson back on track in terms of quality filmmaking, putting misfires like �The Beaver� and �Edge of Darkness� in the rearview mirror to roar ahead with his latest effort, an occasionally vicious prison picture that fits the actor�s groggy wor ...read more...

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