I watched this on the strength of having seen Cox's latest film, Revengers Tragedy, at the Cambridge Film Festival. Unlike RT, which I enjoyed very much, I found this a bit of a disappointment.
A young highway patrolman in Mexico finds he has to compromise his ideals to get by in life, but then finds a way to redeem himself. The film starts off quite promisingly, but it never seemem to really engage me in its storyline, and I found I had little real interest in the characters.
Why? It's a good film. Pedro is no "Robocop" (watch out for the Robocop reference at 36 minutes into the movie), but he's a human being. He is no "Walker Texas Ranger" or "Lone Wolf McQuade", he is simply a young idealistic man who tries to act decently in a world gone mad.
Sure, it's no action film. It is a drama. And a good one.
You can see that at the end - SPOILERS - when he single-handedly tries to wipe out the drug dealers with their helicopter - and fails. Yes, he fails. He quits the Police Force. A US American "super hero" would have killed all of them, and then some. I would have found that just boring. This film is realistic! A fresh thing.
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"These men are celibate -- like their fathers, and their fathers before them."