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This was not by any means necessary an original saturday night softcore movie, since there was hundreds of films with the same plot. Literally, you pick a stone from the ground and you will find a movie just the same as this. Shannon Whirry did a better one and an absolute classic of this kind of plot and era, and in the field of non erotic cinema, there are tons of stories like this, even Isabella Rossellini did it one.

In all this films, no matter what name you chose, there are one point you have to have it well: a good looking female lead actress, and like Metallica's song, nothing else really matters. If you have a good looking girl, nobody would pay atention to anything else. It could be or couldn't be nudity, you need a good looking female lead actress, even if she can't act, or act like Kramer on Seinfeld.

This is one in a zillion films over the same subject and more or less the same plot in more or less the same period of time, so you only have to ask your self one, and only one question. Do you like the girls depicted on screen? That's the only quiestion you have to have on your mind.

For what is my concern, I liked Sara Suzanne Brown in this paricular movie, but she never done anything more that could atract me besides this movie and another installment of the series starred by the one and only Shannon Whirry. A pretty decent girl, not even close to be the star of the year or something. Even in this, her best performance, is quite above average, much under what you can see on the same plot on Animal Instincts with Shannon Whirry or the other Shannon, Tweed, who played the exact same character on I can't remember what film, but who cares?

And, adding to this, for what I can recall, there is a brief scene with Janine Lindemulder and Lene Hefner on a parking lot, and since I have always a some kind of crush with Lene, that's enough reason to watch this film.

So, don't bother to use your brain, juts enjoy the girls.

Although this series has its values i.e. Production, and the background history it ca be denied, also has its flaws. My principal objection is that it has not to be necessary to embelish the events with such a sloppy script. The real drama we live as Mexicans back in the day it would be just enough.

I personally work as a volunteer in rescue tasks for the University, as many other Mexicans that days, and we all know that there was no such a ridiculous story of a newspaper reporter such as portayed here. I guess that for a non Mexican audience this could be easily compared with some kind of US reconstruction or representation of the Nine-Eleven events, the heroism that many saw and lived that days, and in terms of cinematic adaptation, that's make sense, there are plenty of stories that show more or less the same behaviour. But for me, is an insult that the writers take such a liberty on the portrait of characters involved. Not all what happened in that day involved class media people. For the Mexico city size and the hour of the earthquake, early in the morning, many of the people involved belong to virtually all kind of social origin, not only those who lived in affected areas. Specially many female workers in Colonia Obrera, for example, was poor women, in a very popular sector of the city, away from residential zones. Tlatelolco itself was not at the time a very nice zone to live in, just to mention two zones and kind of people not portrayed with adequacy in the series.

I remeber I was at the school, far away from the epicenter, and I was in disbelief of what news report that morning. I guess new generation of audience, millenials, need to see what happended that day in a new light. But I don't. I lived every hour, I was involved in rescue tasks, almost one month, during the emergency on which Mexico city almost stop at all every activity not involved in rescue.

So, I recommend that if yo not live those days directly, avoid the series. As usual with almost any recent Mexican production (no matter if its from Apple, Netflix or any other streaming service), it's made of bad acting and a sloppy script, not to mention a poor camera work. Its so obvious that this new Mexican producvers and filmakers doesn't know how to make the camera lens work not only as a credible whitness but also as a narrator, framing and using creative solutions for the POV.

Yes, the story is mindblowing, but what we see in this series is kind of an open disregard for the people who lived and died that days in Mexico city. As a Mexican who lived that days in the flesh, this series insult my memory, and the memory of those who died.

Some subjects would be treated with more professionalism and for people who really understand the tragedy and the pain lived by those who really lived those days, and not only write and produce some show for selling tickets or views on streaming.

This crappy movie, which lasts just one hour and twenty minutes, is a Mexican soap opera, with Mexican soap opera actors, and the acting resources of a Mexican soap opera, which is bad acting, making faces to "express" emotions, and filmed in an amateurish way. None of that makes it better.

The "action" shots are pitiful, poorly choreographed, slow, and do not produce the slightest emotion. The outdoor shots are so poor that it's grim. The extras are clearly focused on the camera, but at least they act better than the "actors" who are supposed to star in this piece of crap. There are scenes that are hilarious, like the motorcycle chase in a garden and they end up crashing into a pile of boxes in the middle of the street, which are clearly empty. Wondering why someone put those boxes in the street, why put them in the street if they have nothing inside, why do they do that? Why didn't the guys on the motorcycle see the boxes while they were fleeing if they were like twenty or more meters away and there was no vehicle on the street that forced them to crash into them, couldn't they go around them because the invisible man was next to the boxes but they saw him, or what the hell? That's how every scene in this garbage goes.

Not to mention the regrettable nude scenes, which remind us that it doesn't matter if they are dressed or naked, the acting result is the same: regrettable.