A
guy takes his kid to the amusement park and afterwards, while getting a snack
from a roadside stand, an undercover cop hits the boy with his car. Since the cop is well-connected, no charges
are filed. Outraged, the father slugs
him and winds up going to jail for a long time.
Meanwhile, his now homeless kid joins up with a bunch of sewer-dwelling
killer children who roam the streets in packs and stab hapless passersby for
their money. When his father is released
from prison, he sets out to find his long-lost son.
This
is a really weird movie. It partly plays
like a killer kid movie while another aspect tackles the corrupt Mexican police
and prison systems. Don’t be fooled by
the fact that this flick makes your typical Mexican prison look like an
ordinary parking garage. Looks can be deceiving,
especially when said prison is filled with guards who can’t wait to hook car
batteries up to your gonads.
The scenes where the killer sewer-dwelling children accost and murder innocent
people are hit-and-miss. Luckily, there
are plenty of explosions in the third act to keep you awake. When something blows up, it blows up good. Unfortunately, the sound was so poor that most
of the dialogue is unintelligible. I'm willing to give it a mulligan though
based on the explosions alone. Even
then, you have to put up with a lot of long, dull stretches in between the good
stuff.
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