Gringo (2018) User Reviews

Fun, dark and twisted

[ramonster_uk · 7/10 · 22 March 2018]

Let's start by saying that this is a dark comedy. Reading some of the worse reviews I get a sense that maybe they have missed this. The movie is thoroughly enjoyable, not one single weak actor in the cast and all performing well. Hat's off to Charlize Theoron, she is already one of my favourite actresses and has further cemented my opinion of her here.

Watch Harold, a victim of circumstance, muddle his was through his seemingly disaster filled life, all whilst trying to do the right thing, while others want to take advantage. Highly recommend this movie

Surprised!!!!

[lukyboy1 · 7/10 · 12 June 2018]

This movie was pretty good. I did not have much expectation do to the ratings and some of the reviews. It was a fun movie, with comedy and action all in one. David Oyelowo was great as Harold. All in all good movie to relax and eat popcorn.

How can anyone not enjoy this movie.

[marie-brad · 7/10 · 16 March 2019]

Ok it's not the smartest story line but it was what it was supposed to be just a fun, story of an underdog. I can't stand 1 and 2 raters small minds for small reviews. Strong 7.5 not quite an 8 though

Try it you'll like it!

[eileensearcy · 7/10 · 19 January 2019]

This movie was really funny and full of talented actors. Daniel Oyelowo holds it all together as the hapless protagonist. A cavalcade of goofy criminals and clever plot twists and turns keep it speeding along at a fast clip. Loads of fun.

fun caper

[cdcrb · 7/10 · 9 March 2018]

Read the review by "scattershooting" to get the gist of the movie. I just want to add, that while I don't disagree with the review, I want to encourage you to see the film. it is well written and acted and you'll have a good time. it's a movie after all. it's not a sin to aim too high.

Above average, don't believe the bad reviews

[dlfavon · 7/10 · 4 March 2019]

Worth a watch. Fun ride. Worth a watch. Fun ride. Worth a watch. Fun ride. Worth a watch. Fun ride. Worth a watch. Fun ride.

When Harry met Sunny... In Mexico

[Sickpuppy365 · 6/10 · 28 October 2020]

Joel Edgerton (Warrior, Zero Dark Thirty and Bright) always brings his A-game, Charlize Theron is money in heels all the way to the bank... But it's David Oyelowo who steals this show. It's listed as an action, comedy, crime... There's plenty of crime and a fair amount of action, but it is dark comedy, so don't expect it to be side-splittingly hilarious... The humour is in Oyelowo's reactions to his increasingly outlandish situations... Also Sharlto Copley helps out a bit in that department, as a well-intentioned mercenary. Amanda Seyfried (Sunny), and Thandie Newton are also reliable back-up in any movie venture, and hold their own in supporting roles here. Dialogue flows smoothly, and is particularly good between certain characters. Camera work is competent, as are all the other elements to make this an interesting fish-out-of-water caper that is easy to watch. It seems it has been largely overlooked though, and that's a shame, 'cause it's a strong 6 in my book.

I wasn't feeling it

[view_and_review · 5/10 · 10 March 2018]

A straight-laced, play-by-the-book, honest Nigerian named Harold (David Oleyowo) is getting dumped on by everyone he knows: his boss Richard (Joel Edgerton), his wife Bonnie (Thandie Newton) and even his boss's partner Elaine (Charlize Theron). If you want to call him a good man that wants to do the right thing and please everybody then you can call him that. If you want to call him a sap that is ninja level naive then I would say that's a better description. He is so trusting and naive it's nauseating. The company he works for is involved in some illegal dealings and things go awry when he and his superiors go to Mexico.

To put it simply: I wasn't feeling this movie, not even from the beginning. Is it a comedy? Is it a drama? Is it an action? Is it a crime mystery? I was lost hence I didn't know how to treat the movie. One thing it wasn't, it wasn't good. It was full of hyperbole characters that you were supposed to love or hate: I hated them all--including the main character. Harold was so gullible he bordered on special needs. His boss, Richard, possessed every trait that you'd hate in a person which made him uber-unlikeable. His boss's partner, Elaine, had an ambiguous role in the movie but she certainly was a living, breathing setback for the #metoo movement. And Harold's wife, Bonnie, seemed to be in the movie only to complete the picture of how naive and pathetic Harold was.

The plot was not much better than the characters. It was a David and Goliath/Little Engine that Could/Underdog story that wasn't told any better than the millions of movies with such a plot before it. I think if the movie went all out comedy it would have been so much better. They were already using caricatures for the characters and there were a few funny scenes so they should have gone even more extreme with it and then we'd have something. But instead they were stuck somewhere between "to be funny or not to be funny? That is the question." So they just failed.

Very Entertaining

[mikewaims-13188 · 7/10 · 13 March 2018]

While you sort of know how it's going to work out it's a fun ride to see how you get there. Charlize was amazing. Entertaining and fun! I think a lot of the reviewers here while they know movies, don't have a very good sense of humor.

When in doubt so see this movie, read this

[the_real_smile · 4/10 · 15 June 2019]

No, I do not recommend this movie. The story develops very, very slow, you could easily skip the first hour and still follow the movie, very little happens and there is a LOT of talking. The action in this movie is limited to one (1) scene at the end of the movie. Then the title, Gringo (gringo usually refers to an English-speaking male foreigner, especially one from the United States) does not apply because the main character (Harold) comes from Nigeria. Then the humor, well, is has 3 or 4 moments, that's it. Plus are the camera work and that the acting is not completely stupid. The movie left me very unsatisfied.

People are crazy on here. Straight up crazy.

[Moviedude90 · 9/10 · 20 February 2021]

I don't know how you could get more out of an action comedy. The story was GREAT. The acting was GREAT. If you like a fast-pasted Guy-Ritchie-type of film-dialing the action scenes back a notch and the acting and script up a notch-then watch. All I have to say, no spoilers needed.

This Gringo was not the Heffe

[rgkarim · 6/10 · 10 March 2018]

Dark-Comedies are an acquired taste, but once you develop it you have the ability to appreciate more satirical comedy. David Oyelowo attempts to bring this genre to life this weekend in the movie Gringo, a film that has some bite I didn't expect from a movie this early in the year. But what zany adventures will unfold when a black man is stuck between the high stakes world of pharmaceutical development and the cartels? Well that is what this film attempts to answer, and it is my job to give you the 411 on the latest movies to storm the screen. Let's go!

LIKES:

-David Oyelowo Acting -Morale dilemma -Funny at times -Fast-Paced

Gringo is a movie that likes to go over the top, with characters that are all about going to one extreme or the other. However David Oyelowo is the character that has a little more dynamic than the other. Oyelowo is fun to watch, for me being the funniest character with his loud, rambunctious delivery of lines that are loaded with high-pitched panicking screams. Yet he is able to turn that energy around, and focus it to give a character that is worth looking into as he tries to navigate the hostile world he wound up in. Like his character Harold, Oyelowo keeps things very relatable and invests his time to making a good adventure. But what is an adventure without a little ethics debate to come into the light. Gringo does this just right as the conversation of doing the right thing vs. the selfish thing constantly rears its ugly head in the cartel wastelands that this film takes place in. Harold's journey not only tests his own morals, but inspires others to address their own life choices, from settling on abusive boyfriends to what one will do to get money to accomplish their personal goals. It fits okay into the movie, but there are some hard hitting dialogue moments to help reassure that the best stuff doesn't mean the best life. As stated earlier, dark comedies are a little dryer than other, more modern comedies so you have to be ready for more delivery and timing to do the lifting. Gringo has some legit comedic moments, really taking an awkward situation and turning it into a tear inducing riot of laughs. These moments often have a nice, clever zing to them, that Oyelowo maximizes using his natural accent and mannerisms. And all of these components are able to be placed in a decently paced run time that minimizes the slow and maximizes the thrills.

DISLIKES:

-Curse heavy dialogue -Not as funny as I had hoped -Much ruined by trailers -A little chaotic at the end

You've read my reviews, but you know that lazy writing that relies of cursing doesn't get my stamp of approval. Gringo has extreme characters that don't use the most advanced language, relying once more on F-bombs and sleazy pick up lines to do the talking. While pertinent to the story, for once, and sometimes entertaining, Gringo utilized these tactics too much for my tastes. Even the yelling of Oyelowo got old, with many of his pleas soon running dry like the desert he ran through. As such, this movie didn't really have the comedic punch I wanted, but more a thrill seeking, dark adventure with a little comedic buff thrown in. Perhaps this is also due to the fact that a lot of the funny parts had been advertised to death in the trailers, resulting in the overplayed scene being boring by show time. And once the last scene started to end and all the stories came together, things sort of wrapped up in a chaotic package that wasn't in time with the movie. Not the worst mind you, but not what I quite expected from the trailers.

The VERDICT:

Gringo is okay, and designed for a select audience that wants the darker things in life to be ridiculed. This film is a legitimate mixture of drama, crime, adventure and comedy, taking these aspects and twisting it into a semi-entertaining story with some moral obligations to address. While I enjoyed Oyelowo and the well-timed zingers, I still can't say this was the best, most unique comedy to hit the screen. The extreme characters, mundane dialog, and chaotic organization (ruined by the trailers), didn't deliver the expected feel I got from the advertising and as such left more to be desired. So I recommend skipping this one and hitting something else in the month of March.

My scores are:

Action/Comedy/Crime: 7.0 Movie Overall: 6.0

Overly complicated, dull and uninvolving.

[Hellmant · 22 March 2018]

'GRINGO': Two and a Half Stars (Out of Five)

An action-comedy about an American businessman that's handling the business of a marijuana pill in Mexico, for his American employers, when he's kidnapped by the cartel there. The film stars David Oyelowo, Joel Edgerton, Charlize Theron, Sharlto Copley, Amanda Seyfried and Thandie Newton. It was directed by Nash Edgerton (Joel's brother), and scripted by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone. The film has gotten mostly negative reviews from critics, and it's also bombed at the Box Office as well. I was also not impressed by it.

Harold Soyinka (Oyelowo) is a down on his luck businessman, who works for Cannabix Technologies Inc.. His employers have developed a medical marijuana 'Weed Pill', and they send Harold to Mexico to handle the manufacturing of it there. The Mexican cartel wants the technology for itself though, so they kidnap Harold and demand a ransom (or so it seems). Harold's bosses (Edgerton and Theron) send a professional (Copley) in to Mexico to rescue him. Things don't go as planned though.

The movie is overly complicated, dull and uninvolving. It's a shame too, because the cast is fantastic. I really wanted to like it, and root for another Edgerton to succeed (Joel is doing amazing, he's cast in everything it seems). I couldn't wait for the film to be over though, and I found very little of it to be amusing or funny at all. Even when Sharlto Copley enters the movie, he couldn't breathe any new life into it!

scattershooting

[ferguson-6 · 5/10 · 9 March 2018]

Greetings again from the darkness. In a perfect cinematic world, great acting elevates a terrific script. However, the best case scenario for a weak script, or in this case a messy one, is that it can be offset by acting. Fortunately for director Nash Edgerton (it's been 10 years since his underappreciated THE SQUARE), he has assembled such a quality cast that what amounts to little more than organized chaos is mostly watchable - even if it's not consistently entertaining.

The cast is loaded with international talent from Australia, England, South Africa and Latin America. David Oyelowo, far removed from his Martin Luther King role in SELMA, stars as Harold/Harry, a Nigerian immigrant just trying to do his job and live his life according the morals and work ethic instilled by his father. Harold is the trusting type who believes that his free-spending wife is faithful and that his boss is his friend. That boss is Richard Rusk (we should call him Dick) played by Joel Edgerton (the director's brother), and together with Charlize Theron as his Executive VP Elaine, combine to exemplify modern day douche-baggery.

The story revolves around the formula for a medicinal marijuana pill that their company is making, and the secretive proposed merger being ironed out. To clean up the books for the audit, Richard and Elaine travel to Mexico to convince their supplier to stop the illicit sales to a local drug lord. They bring the unaware Harold along for his contacts. The turmoil that follows includes a faked kidnapping and staged ransom phone call, two local hotelier brothers scheming for a big take, an American tourist couple with conflicting reasons for their trip, DEA involvement, a grown-up tantrum, an un-retired mercenary on a mission, and an ongoing argument over the best Beatles' album. And you wonder why I described it as messy?

Of course, rarely if ever does staging one's own kidnapping go well, so we know Oyelowo's Harold is in for a rough and tumble ride. Multiple car chases turn into multiple car crashes, guns are fired, tequila is consumed, and backs are stabbed - in the proverbial sense. Oyelowo seems to be enjoying his trip outside of movie drama, and Edgerton and Theron do their best to create savage jerks. Sadly, Ms. Theron's character sets the women's movement back a few years with her sexual boardroom viper approach. On top of that are the stream of fat and ethnic jokes that would make Archie Bunker cringe.

Co-writers Matthew Stone (muck like BIG TROUBLE, MAN OF THE HOUSE) and Anthony Tambakis (the compelling WARRIOR) are responsible for delivering a script that tries so hard to be too many things: action, comedy, satire, white collar crime, and an expose of greed and lack of integrity. The deep cast also includes Thandie Newton (as Harold's wife), Melonie Diaz (as Rusk's receptionist), Amanda Seyfried as the aptly named Sunny and Harry Treadaway as her misguided boyfriend, Diego Catano and Rodrigo Corea as the brothers running the motel, Yul Vasquez as Angel, Alan Ruck as the schmuck who falls for Elaine's wiles, Carlos Corona as the drug lord Black Panther (talk about bad timing!), Michael's daughter Paris Jackson in her film debut, and a standout as always, Sharlto Copley as the brother-mercenary-humanitarian. As is often said, it's better to be good at one thing, and though this one brings a few laughs and some creative moments, it's mostly an overblown mess that aims to high - or at too many targets.

Mission Accomplished

[Trupiaar · 7/10 · 11 June 2018]

Movies like this are supposed to be focused on the circumstances, a one-off, nothing deep, and this was well achieved with Gringo. I laughed at some appropriate moments, nothing felt unbelievable, and the lead was likeable. Basic stuff, but basic stuff not done poorly.

Worth the time.

An incredibly uneven piece that often trips over its tone and pace but is regularly enjoyable.

[Pjtaylor-96-138044 · 6/10 · 10 March 2018]

'Gringo (2018)' is an uneven and unsure piece, one that stumbles over its tone and pacing more times than you can count and yet manages to pick itself off the ground on pretty much every such occasion. Its massively slow start paves the way for an, at times, incredibly exciting but then strangely dull adventure with peaks and valleys of the highest and lowest proportions. It continuously cuts back to an all-star cast who sadly drain the life of the film as, though they are all brilliant, they each play narcissistic sociopaths who aren't nearly as radiant or interesting as David Oyelowo's eponymous hero - who is played to perfection and is earnestly enjoyable on many levels. The overall effect of the flick is an enjoyable but forgettable one, a sense that a better - if slightly more traditional - story resides somewhere inside this mess. It's not bad, but it's not great either. 6/10

Kinda like a wannabe Guy Ritchie movie

[Chiller7 · 7/10 · 16 September 2018]

This feels like some filmmaker's attempt at imitating a Guy Ritchie-style crime comedy movie, like Snatch or Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, where a variety of different criminals in initially unrelated plot lines end up hilariously crossing paths by coincidence and bungling each other's plans, although Gringo falls short of achieving quite the same level of rapid pace and witty humor. Despite that, I was mildly entertained enough by Gringo to give it a decent rating, even if it could have been better.

Take a Sad Song and Make it Better.

[nogodnomasters · 7/10 · 25 March 2018]

"Gringo" is a light comedy action drama. Harold Soyinka is a Nigerian working in Chicago for Promethian Pharmaceuticals. They have a factory in Mexico that has inventory issues. He goes there with his two bosses to check things out. Meanwhile in a subplot two Americans are also there to mule drugs.

Harold knows he has issues and finds out how bad his life really is at 25 minutes into the film when he starts his epiphany and leaves character.

The film has its moments. It attempts to have humor in nearly every scene, but falls short on a few. A watchable film.

Guide: F-word. Sex. No nudity.

Gingo: What a Shambles

[brankovranjkovic · 5/10 · 13 March 2018]

Comedy action adventure, stars David Oyelowo as Harold, he is an honest man working for a pharmaceutical company which makes legal cannabis tablets. But it turns out that the company is also working with a drugs cartel in Mexico.

Harold takes a trip with his bosses to Mexico to smooth out a few things. Harold decides to fake his own kidnapping so the company can claim on the insurance after learning his job may be for the chop.

Unfortunately all the funniest clips were in there trailer, therefore I hardly laughed since I'd already seen all the best jokes. It gets better towards the end, almost everyone dies, and Harold gets a new identity, moves, opens "Harry's Bar". Film finishes at that point.

I can't really recommend this shambles of a film.

hilarious

[xoxo411 · 7/10 · 11 March 2018]

Not a cheesy comedy due to award winning Sir David oleyowa ( famed MI6 actor) Intriging and surprice ending. Charlise Theron was beautiful and funny as usual and added lots of entertainment. Good acting by Black Panther cartel boss. overall I laughed and giggled a lot.

how is this rated 6.0 on imdb?

[dudleyduclos · 8/10 · 23 May 2018]

This movie is definitely better than the 6.0 rating here.

"We don't kill Americans if we can avoid it."

[classicsoncall · 6/10 · 7 September 2021]

Just my two cents worth, but how is it an American pharmaceutical company making legitimate product is selling them to a Mexican drug lord? The whole thing sounds backward. The Black Panther (Carlos Corona) should have been able to find another supplier if Promethium Pharmaceuticals couldn't deliver. Maybe I'm missing something.

Anyway, there are a lot of moving parts to this story, and the link that holds it all together is the character of Harold Soyinka, portrayed by David Oyelowo. He's not presented as the brightest bulb in the room, but as the story progresses, he pinballs from one situation to the next with the idea of getting revenge on his employers who were willing to sell him out as soon as they found a buyer for their company. There wasn't a whole lot to like about co-presidents of Promethium, Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton), and Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron). Why the film makers wrote her character as such a horny and crass businesswoman is a mystery to me; it doesn't surprise when she eventually puts the screws to Richard as well.

Keeping up with the story can be a challenge with the introduction of ancillary characters. They pop in and out of the film as situations warrant, but when it's all over, you might be wondering what happened to Sunny (Amanda Seyfried) and Miles (Harry Treadaway). Or maybe you won't, as their own little drug deal with the Panther didn't amount to anything. At least Harold came out of the picture with something to look forward to, a nice little tiki bar on an island somewhere, where he could ponder his 'death' thanks to Richard's brother Mitch (Sharlto Copley).

If you're looking up this film, don't get it mixed up with "Get the Gringo" with Mel Gibson. For my money, that's the better movie.

Goofy caper in Mexico with a Shawshank ending.

[TxMike · 8 August 2018]

I was able to watch this movie at home on BluRay from my public library.

The story mainly concerns a character played by David Oyelowo. He is Harold, a dedicated, serious, hard-working employee of a firm located in Chicago. His "best friend" runs the company, but as things unfold we see that his friend is duplicitous and will do anything for the bottom line.

Harold goes to Mexico but finds out his company sale is imminent and he will be out of a job. Industriously he plots to fake his own kidnapping in an attempt to get a big severance for himself. $5Million sounds pretty good, doesn't it?

Yet nothing goes as it should, the mess gets bigger and bigger. It is a dark comedy, lots of funny stuff but characters get shot and killed. While I enjoyed it as an interesting diversion, with very good actors, in total it isn't a particularly good movie.

Contrived, Convoluted, and Incoherent

[zardoz-13 · 3/10 · 20 March 2018]

Sophomore director Nash Egerton's unsavory, amoral, comedy of errors "Gringo" qualifies as contrived, convoluted, and ultimately incoherent. This nice-guys-finish-first comedy pits a clueless hero against his unscrupulous superiors at a pharmaceutical firm that plans to corner the American market with a marijuana pill. Were this not enough, our gullible hero must also dodge a trigger-happy Mexican cartel boss with a fondness for the Beatles! A midlevel executive at a Chicago pharmaceutical firm, Nigerian immigrant Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo of "Selma") finds himself caught in the crossfire between his own pharmaceutical company that wants him dead as well as a homicidal cartel chieftain who wants him alive. Our hero's superiors are two treacherous co-executives who don't trust each other. They decide to liquidate Harold while they orchestrate a merger with another pill company. Somewhere in "Gringo" lurked a provocative comedy about pharmaceutical skullduggery, but director Nash Egerton and his scenarists muddle the melodramatics with too many subplots and too many characters. The gratuitous violence and the number of gunmen getting slaughtered serve as a dire substitute for humor. The uneven Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone screenplay jumbles the chain of events so the action starts in the middle and then flashes back to the beginning. The primary villains, Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton of "Warrior") and Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron of "Atomic Blonde"), own a company named Promethium that has been manufacturing a pill called Cannabax. They argue that once pot becomes legal all over America, Cannabax will swamp the market like Viagra. Not only do Rusk and Elaine feed our hero Harold to the wolves for the sake of profit, but they also infuriate a cartel which had been their partner in Mexico. An eccentric gallery of goofballs, these nitwits fight among themselves, while Harold struggles to survive. All Mexicans are stereotyped as dishonest, untrustworthy scoundrels with no qualms about murder. Since everybody is prepared to betray each other, few of the surprises that Egerton and his scribes pile into this potboiler are revelatory. Out of all the many surprises and reversals, only one pays off.

Harold Soyinka has known Richard Rusk since they attended college. Rusk considers Harold a bosom buddy. Not only did Rusk hire him at Promethium as a midlevel executive, but he also hired Harold's wife, Bonnie (Thandie Newton of "Good Deeds"), as his interior designer! Repeatedly, Rusk has assured Harold that our hero need not fret about his future. Unfortunately, Harold doesn't know that Bonnie has been sleeping with Rusk. Harold's friend and accountant, Stu (Bashir Salahuddin of "Snatched"), suggests that Harold intervene in Bonnie's interior design business before she bankrupts him. Eventually, Harold is shocked to learn that Bonnie's debts have him poised on the abyss of bankruptcy! Ironically, Harold has spent his entire life being honest. Tragically, he realizes everybody has been taking advantage of him! Making matters even worse, Stu warns Harold he may soon be unemployed, because Rusk and Elaine are plotting a merger. Indeed, everybody else at Promethium uses Stu as their accountant. Harold asks Rusk about the merger, but Rusk lies to Harold that all will be okay. Meantime, Rusk informs Harold that Elaine and he will accompany him to Mexico on his next regular visit to the Cannabax plant, so they can resolve an inventory problem. Naturally, Harold knows nothing about a cartel connection. Foolishly, Rusk and Elaine plan to kaput their partnership with notorious cartel honcho, Juan Miguel Villegas (Carlos Corona of "Cantinflas"), whose nickname is "Black Panther." Moreover, they want to dispose of Harold. Sensing his impending betrayal, Harold pays two low-life motel owners to pose as kidnappers and abduct him. He plans to share with them the ransom that Rusk will pay. Meantime, Villegas' henchmen scour everywhere for Harold because Harold is the only one who can open the Cannabax plant safe and hand over the formula to Villegas.

Initially, Richard decides to save Harold from the kidnappers. He contacts a mercenary, Mitch (Sharlto Copley of "Chappie"), who happens to be his estranged brother. Actually, Mitch is a hitman trying to atone for his dark past. Meaning, he has no stomach for killing. No sooner has Mitch rescued Harold than he discovers that Harold had staged his own kidnapping! Harold, however, doesn't trust Mitch, and he flees from him. Meantime, Rusk discovers a clause in the company's corporate life insurance policy that awards $5-million dollars to Promethium if an employee is killed on foreign soil. Now, Rusk wants Mitch to slay Harold rather than save him. Harold manages to elude not only Mitch, but also the cartel because he has a guardian angel who has been watching over him. Were this not convoluted enough, Rusk's jealous partner Elaine blows the whistle on him to keep from going to jail as a conspirator. A frivolous subplot about a creepy guitar salesman, Miles (Harry Treadaway of "City of Ember"), who drags his oblivious girlfriend, Sunny (Amanda Seyfried of "Mean Girls"), to Mexico so he can steal some Cannabax pills for a Los Angeles drug designer to duplicate the formula complicates matters. These two characters spot Harold on a highway after he escapes from the cartel, but they add little depth to the plot. Amanda Seyfried is squandered in a minor supporting role, but Thandie Newton fares even worse in a cameo as Harold's adulterous wife.

"Gringo" resembles a puzzle missing important pieces. You need a score card to keep track of all the characters. The logic of the premise seems flawed, too. Why would Rusk and Elaine keep the Cannabax formula locked up in a safe in faraway Mexico? Why would they want to liquidate Harold when only his thumb print can open that safe? Just because a movie has dozens of buffoons swarming around in crazy circles doesn't make it hilarious, no matter how prestigious its cast. Despite its polished production values and stellar cast, "Gringo" amounts to a bust.

An entertaining caper

[promasallc · 7/10 · 24 April 2018]

This movie was unexpectedly funny and enjoyable. Charlize Theron was excellent and the bad ass vixen business woman. Oleyowo was actually funny and quick and I liked how his character was clever. Joel Edgerton was expertly hate-able as the bad guy. and oh my goodness Alan Ruck! God bless Alan Ruck for his roles as the wimpy naive guy. The side story with Amanda Seyfried was distracting because it felt forced into the storyline. Also taking a few points off for the gruesome violence, which was just a bit much at times. This movie isn't discovering the cure for cancer or achieving world peace, but it delivers the necessary bang for your buck as entertainment. So if you would like to get lost in a lighthearted comedy for a couple of hours, this is the movie for you.