The people saying that this looks awesome...

Or they are leftists who feel guilt over the past.

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by acewings221 » Wed Jun 11 2014 08:58:33
IMDb member since February 2010

I think they have poor taste in movies...

Did you actually see the movie or is this somehow just a knee-jerk reaction?

I wouldn't say it was awesome, but I did like this movie.

But then...

I like Ed Harris and I also like Michael Peña. Neither personally, mind you, but for their professionalism and acting chops.

I like their work.

For example, I don't particularly like romantic comedies, but if you assemble the right actors and put them in a scenario I can appreciate, I'll probably like that too, in an exploratory manner, if for no other reason.

I looked at Frontera (2014) like a Western set in the contemporary West, similar to A Night in Old Mexico (2014), as opposed to a Western set in the Old West.

I also think that the best time to observe any actor's true talent is when they are not speaking. Like when they are reacting to something and the audience has to imagine what cacophony of emotion/pain/exaltation the character is experiencing.

There are many opportunities to repeatedly observe this in Frontera (2014) with this very nearly ensemble cast.

The interaction of Michael's character and Paulina (Eva Longoria) stateside, is nothing short of heart-wrenching and riveting.

I'd definitely recommend this as a watch, for people who want to be entertained.

You may feel sympathetic or you may not, that's neither here nor there! if you become fixated on that aspect, you've missed a great deal of the point. Likewise. if you focus on the actors and not on the characters they are portraying.

If you pay close attention to what Ed describes and to what he and Michael's characters quietly, mutually, agree upon and finally, what Michael's character busies himself doing at the very end (and from WHERE) as a metaphor to what is happening daily at our border (Hint: fence!), in addition to what actually happens visually on the screen, perhaps you'll be even more deeply rewarded.

-OR- you can watch the trailer, come away with incorrect assumptions and post here without thinking for yourself in a futile attempt to dissuade others from watching and nod their heads in agreement before seeing for themselves.




"If people like you don't learn from what happened to people like me..." -Professor Rohl

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When did you lose your humanity? Really. Who hurt you so much?

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