Compadres

Garza (Omar Chaparro) is Mexico's honest drug enforcement officer. After the death of his partner, Garza is manipulated into freeing his killer, making Garza a fugitive from everyone. He eventually teams up with Vic (Joey Morgan) a computer geek and accountant as he attempts to get revenge on Santos (Erick Elias) and rescue his girl (Aislinn Derbez). This is a crime/action/comedy which is amusing using unusual characters such as Vic and Porky whose preferred weapon is a flame thrower. There is a lot of gun play and a couple of formula twists you see coming from a mile away. The film skipped scenes such as the bed sheet escape. Garza meets Maria and it appears that after one night she is pregnant with his child, which he believes and he is hopelessly in love. I think this was a script writing or editing problem and not a character issue as was Statham/ Alba in "Mechanic: Resurrection." Worth a rental for fans of the genre. Eric Roberts and Kevin Pollak in minor roles. Guide: F-word. Brief sex. No nudity

Sorry, thats really bad... and far too long... its like the director didnt know if doing an action movie or a comedy, so he didnt either. No chemistry between the two main characters, everything painfully obvious, and the only good thing are some of the side characters who acted well, but didnt get enough lines...

I didn't finish this. all i kept thinking is why am i watching this (1 viewing)

It works. It kept my interest. The same type of flick has been done by multiple combos to great effect - it makes sense that they finally go Latino. Great chemistry between the cop & the gringo. I just recently started watching Spanish movies & came across Omar Chaparro & have liked his acting - this is the 4th film of his that I've watched this week. This is a good movie to watch, it's just 102 minutes long.

I gave this more stars than Criminal Activity. I could finish Criminal Activity and be upset. Here, the tempo and action and prospect of learning something ends up with: THATS ENOUGH! To tell the truth, I was shocked. It came out of nowhere like a film released in El Paso recently starring TIM ROTH. Here we get a 48 hours kind of feel to a movie that introduces us to ERIC ROBERTS again.Our star looks like Joe Lawrence and Ricky Martin.His new girlfriend is weird.and this all leads up to funny interactions with other people....like the David Chappele newsanchor dude,and others.I looked at my watch, and even though its pretty noticeable that Omar the actor smokes cigarettes a bunch, like at least three or four within the first forty five minutes,when they get into a hotel with the fat boys' hidden treasure and he is in awe of the womans body behind the desk..i left.

Wow am I impressed! When I first saw this I thought to myself: " Well if they didn't get a cheap version of Jonah hill to make an American style Comedy Movie about nerds done by Mexicans. What a cheap gimmick." Yet that is not the case at all. When you give the movie a chance, you find out, that the ruddy "kid", Actually does a good job acting. He did a good job, unlike minor characters in low grade American Comedy movies. The movie actually has substance. I Enjoyed the many different types of Mexican Personalities portrayed in this movie. It gives International audiences a glimpse into personalities not typically portrayed even in Mexican Cinema. Whats really cool about the Film is that it feels like you're reading a Comic Book. Nothing too deep, while at the same time having enough Interesting Scenarios to keep you entertained, and the right amount of sentimentalism to keep you engaged with the Character's Relationships. This is the first Mexican Cinema Film in which I have seen the use of Odd Pair characters, which I believe was used effectively in this film. I personally enjoyed the Mexican Beauties portrayed in this Film. I believe it is about time someone portrayed what Hot Mexican girls actually look like. It was fun to see the director, allow the women to be themselves and portray normal Mexican girls instead of the typical seductive Spanish Señorita, Salma Hayek was turned into by her agents. Also, the amount of cameos by Major and Minor Mexican and Chicano celebrities was astounding. I really enjoyed that as a fan of these celebrities.

As large as the United States is, it only borders two other nations, so it make sense that there's a lot of cooperation among the film industries of Canada, Mexico and the U.S. In the case of Mexico (even more so than with Canada), this geographic and cultural relationship results in many co-productions AND American movies with a strong cross-cultural connection. Excellent films since the turn of the century that fall into one of these categories include 2006's "Pan's Labyrinth", the 2006 Best Picture Oscar nominee "Babel" and 2004's Best Picture Oscar winner "Crash", plus, in 2015 alone, "Spare Parts", "McFarland USA", "Sicario" and the Oscar-nominated documentary "Cartel Land". One 2016 addition is the Mexican-produced bi-lingual comedy-drama "Compadres" (R, 1:41), which, unlike some of the examples above, includes major Mexican movie stars alongside well-known American character actors. The Spanish word "compadre" usually refers to the god-parent relationship between two families, but it's also used more liberally to refer to a companion who is regarded as family or as a very close friend. Of course, some people can be all of the above. That's the relationship between Mexican police officer Diego Garza (Omar Chaparro) and his partner on the force, which just heightens Garza's grief when his compadre is killed in a drug bust. Garza successfully arrests the drug kingpin known as Santos (Erick Elías) but Santos quickly escapes from custody and kidnaps Garza's new girlfriend, Maria (Aislinn Derbez, the daughter of Mexican actors and the star of the delightful 2015 Mexican rom-com "A la mala"). With information gained from his former boss on the police force (José Sefami) and an FBI contact (Eric Roberts, he of 150 film and TV appearances from 2011-2015), Garza figures out a way to get to Santos – or make Santos come to him. It turns out that a San Diego businessman (Kevin Pollak, from "Avalon", "A Few Good Men", "Casino" and "The Usual Suspects") and a computer hacker have managed to steal $10 million from Santos. Garza wants to get that money and use it as leverage against Santos. Garza ends up contacting a possible Santos connection whom the FBI calls "the accountant". That person turns out to be a nerdy/sweet 17-year-old hacker named Vic (Joey Morgan, from 2015's underrated "Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse"). When the original hacker turns up dead, Garza takes Vic to look for the hacker's financier. As Garza and Vic follow one lead after another, Santos' men are hot on their trail – especially two bumbling but ruthless henchmen, one with a gun and the other with a flamethrower. "Compadres" is fun, but formulaic. Its overall tone calls to mind the 2015 Spanish-language comedy "Ladrones" (a joint American-Dominican production that takes place in Mexico). The flow of its story is similar to 1990's "Kindergarten Cop" and the "Lethal Weapon" sequels with Joe Pesci – movies with openings and underlying plots which are deadly serious, but with humorous lines and situations, and characters who serve as comic relief. (And that flamethrower reminds me of the similarly over-the-top weapon of choice used by Javier Bardem's character in "No Country for Old Men".) The acting's generally solid, but sometimes lacks energy. The direction of Enrique Begne is loose, while the script by Begne, Ted Perkins and Gabriel Ripstein features entertaining dialog, but unoriginal plot points. The action scenes are good and the plot has a couple twists, but most of the film is predictable. The jokes are sometimes funny, but it's the overall sense of fun that's consistent. "Compadres" is a fairly entertaining movie that is more than the sum of its parts. "B"

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This Mexican crime caper comedy gets decent performances from its two leads Omar Chaparro and Joey Morgan, and, on occasion, its dark humor works. However, for the most part the preponderance of the movie is filled with strong violence, a number of gross-out scenes, many attempts at black humor that fall flat, and numerous crosses and double-crosses that can get quite tiresome. The plot revolves around a Mexican police lieutenant (Chapparo) who must join forces with a 17-year-old hacker (Morgan) to try and find his kidnapped pregnant girlfriend, as they get caught up in a Mexican mob chase involving millions of dollars. Overall, the film directed by Enrique Begne, just,in my opinion, wasn't consistent enough in what it offered. To me, it seemed to have its moments but then would regress again, and thus the low rating.

Stupid Movie. It has so stupid acting from the protagonists and a script that belongs to a soap opera. If you want to get an idea of this, the protagonist, Omar Chaparro, is a Mexican actor who always plays stupid roles in live shows, in this movie he doesn't do that, he just talks normally, but that's not acting, that's just NOT playing stupid. The other thing that bothers me its that this movie is supposedly an action movie, I mean a serious one, but it turns out to be a parody, it has comedy, some of it it's funny but the big part of the movie doesn't. It has so much stupidity in the script like the part where Chaparro got shot in "the arms" or the scene where the two fellas are laying in the desert, the are being shot from 4 freaking guys with machine guns, and they are literally talking about how many shots they have left on a magnum, I mean, in the freaking desert. This might be a comedy, but definitely not an action movie and not a good one. Te good parts and the ones that might save the movie from being a disaster: Armando Hernandez as the clown, Héctor Jimenez as Guasa, and Cosío as the principal Villain, but they only get a few lines, Cosío only one scene, and of course, they are great actors. Do not waste your time and money and we must demand better quality from our national movies, specially with national and public budget.