Técnicamente no Hay de Malo pero Como que Algo no Cuadra, no?
What's up, people?!!!!! All excellent on this side of the world, this time I come with a somewhat short review because this movie, although it was entertaining to some extent, I was not very pleased with the final result and leaves a bit much to be desired, but not everything can be bad in this life and you have to find the positive side of things. Below there will be a few spoilers so if you continue reading it is at your own risk, I warned you beforehand
Counterattack, how to begin to describe this movie. Let's see, in simple terms, it's basically about the military against the Mexican mafia (Cartel), speaking in general and simple terms. Broadly speaking, it's about an elite team that is compromised by a high command and the Mexican cartel goes after them to assassinate them for having killed the brother of the cartel boss in an operation, that's it, as simple as that. With these types of plots I usually don't expect great things, it's just about enjoying the action and that's it, and I wasn't wrong.
The good thing about the movie is that when you see the trailer you imagine that what is left over is the action and indeed, what is left over is the action. If you come from a long day of work or study and you just want to enjoy a well deserved time watching something light without having to think so much about the conflict behind the whole story of the movie and why it happened you are in the right movie, if you are looking for the opposite better go somewhere else, you will thank me later. For armed conflicts don't worry, you are in the right place.
The movie let's say it starts with the events in the middle and then we have a flashback that will explain why everything we saw at the beginning happened until we get to that point in the movie and the story continues with its rhythm, up to here technically everything is going well but there are certain holes that I will comment later, and from what I remember. I was able to see the movie in its original language since Spanish is my native language, and yes I could notice certain dialogues that don't make much sense, they are there to fill lines in the script and that's it, or at least that was the impression I got, so if you speak Spanish you can enjoy it a little more.
The actors did a good job on their part, some more than others, certain characters felt with forced dialogues, or at least they gave me the impression that they did feel acted. The movie is a bit lacking in bringing some realism to its action scenes, the way they are executed seems a bit good to me but I'm referring to the “realism” of the bullets. Let's see, how is it possible that the protagonists did not die when the mafia shot at the car they were in, I mean, it is clearly seen as it is not an armored car and yet they did not die, or they had very bad aim or the power of the script saved them, one of two things.
If you are usually detailed and notice everything that happens in the movies, believe me you will notice a few other things like the ones I told you a moment ago, the main objective of the team is to go to a safe place, the issue is that they were not very far from their base of operations, the “safe” place (a village) was 20 km away and the base was 40km away but they preferred to go to a village to carry an armed conflict where there were possibly civilians, super casual and feasible; the other meeting point at the base 40 km away, they could perfectly send helicopters that would take less than 30 minutes to reach their position but they still preferred to go to the village and to complete, for the sake of the plot, the helicopters arrive the next day. It doesn't make a lot of sense but well, it served the plot.
Honestly, I gave this movie a chance because when I saw the trailer it reminded me of the video game Counter Strike and I was filled with nostalgia remembering the times I spent with my group of friends when we used to get together to play that, as I said, the movie is perfect to enjoy it without thinking too much about the plot or paying too much attention to the details. I would recommend it as an option if you don't want to think too much about what to see but if you have other options I would recommend you to go for the other options.
Watching it I remembered what @netflixr said in his post, and I agree with him a lot about the script holes and narrative inconsistencies he noticed in the movie. Well people, that's my recommendation regarding this movie, I hope if you see it you enjoy it as much as you can and if you don't see it you're not missing much either. Until a future review : )
Traductor: DeepL
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