Mexican Moon

The evolution of the present day indie standard cinematic style could to well to remember the dramatic film style lighting present on Mexican Moon, reminiscent of some of the Japanese semiotic visual storytellers defining mastery.

Interesting film escapes the coastal big cities to focus on our border towns with good results. Nice use of lingering closeups and original faces add to the experience and the genuine mood and reality of the region.

I kept waiting for something to happen. Anything. Instead, there's just scene after scene with actors monotonally destroying their lines. About an hour in my brain, in an act of self-preservation, stopped the film.

This movie is ridiculously bad. The acting is horrible. People saying line, after like, with no emotion, or any acting skills, and how about some regional accent from the supposed Mexican girl. She sounds like she was born, and raised in L. A. The direction is clunky, and action scenes are right out of Plan 9 From Outer Space. I realize it's an Indy, low-budget, but you gotta make a better effort with obvious things, like the fact that the actual blood isn't the color of red food dye, and gets darker as it dries. The story makes no sense. Why a drug cartel has $100,000 buried in a grave, with an AK-47 , and a cigar box that is forbidden to look in, is never explained, and wouldn't have made any sense if they tried to come up with something.

I'm glad I discovered this movie just in time for movie night I loved the filming locations, and story line. The music paired well with the story. This movie held my attention from start to finish. I highly recommend this one.