When you’re in bed with the cartel, everyone gets screwed.
| Cast |
David Oyelowo, Charlize Theron, Joel Edgerton, Amanda Seyfried, Thandie Newton, Sharlto Copley |
| Director |
Nash Edgerton |
| Screenplay | Anthony Tambakis, Matthew Stone |
| Music | Christophe Beck |
| Cinematography | Eduard Grau |
| Editing | Luke Doolan, David Rennie, Tatiana S. Riegel |
| Made in | 2018 |
| Produced by | Amazon Studios, Blue-Tongue Films, Denver and Delilah Productions, Picrow |
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| Genre | Action thriller |
| Language | The material contains frequent strong to very strong impact gratituous language, presented all through out the film in a context of frustration, frustration and of deamining other characters. |
| Nudity | None |
| Sex | None |
| Violence | The material contains frequent strong impact realistic violence with blood-letting. |
| Prejudice | None |
| Blasphemy | None |
| Drug abuse | None (sic) |
| Comments | The material contains complex and mature themes that are presented in a context of a dark thriller and crime drama. Themes explore shady business dealings, loyalty, betrayal, kidnapping, rescue missions, organised crime, drug cartels, infidelity, kidnapping, murder, friendship, undercover policing, corruption, revenge and survival. The overall cumulative impact of themes is violent, dark, realistic, of organised crime, under world dealings and would be psychologically threatening, confusing, distressing, upsetting and inappropriate for children under 16 years as they lack acceptable and normal societal moral compass. Furthermore the presentation and use of language by Elaine is glamorised and normalised through out the film and would be immoral and misleading for children under the age of 16. The overall cumulative impact of themes and classifiable elements is of a strong to very strong impact. |
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| Frightening / Tense Scenes |
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Tense Family Scenes |
| Music (Scary/Tense) |
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| Suggested age limit 17 + |
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| Scale (Max) | 20 |  |
What the Critics say | ||
| 24.com Ilan Preskovsky  On a technical level, it's not hard to understand why so many critics have really torn into Gringo as it is something of a shambolic mess but it's hard not to be taken in by it – and most especially by its lead character and the guy who brings him to such endearing life. | 10 |  |
| ScreenIt Jim Judy I can't say I was ever bored and I did find myself entertained just enough throughout to give Gringo a middle of the road 5 out of 10 rating. | 10 | |
| Metacritic.com 33 critics | 9 | |
| Rottentomatoes critics 99 critics | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes tomatometer Tomatometer Gringo rounds up a bafflingly overqualified cast for a misfire of a comedy that's fatally undermined by its messy plot, poorly conceived characters, and obvious debts to better films. | 8 | |
| Movie Review Query Engine MRQE critics   | 11 |  |
| CommonSenseMedia Jeffrey M. Anderson Strong language, drug content in over-the-top action-comedy. | 10 | |
What the People say | ||
| Metacritic.com users 15 users | 10 | |
| Rottentomatoes users 630 users | 10 | |
| IMDB 2023 Netizens | 12 | |
| The Movie DB Community | 13 | |
Average .. 51% | 10 | |