Get the Gringo

 

           Well, hello boys and girls, obviously it's getting hot outside as well as the rain pouring down and ruining our day whenever we want to go walk outside or play some golf aside from another 4th of July already over and done but don't worry, I feel little patriotic but will get to that soon hopefully. Speaking of feeling a little Patriotic I watched another Mel Gibson movie that proceeded with all my expectations. For sure I never thought I would imagine watching another Mel Gibson movie but this, ladies and gentlemen is one of those movies that once you watched the movie all the way through, you'd want to watch it repeatedly. 

            A youngster helps an American career criminal (Mel Gibson) learn to survive behind the walls of a brutal Mexican Prison. 

            I'm confident in saying that I watched this film a bunch of times and really the first time I watched the movie I was like "oh this is something fresh and new" but then yet again this reminds me of a certain movie back in the late nineties another Mel Gibson gem called Payback. For which yeah that's basically what this movie is, is another type of version of Payback but set in the Mexican Border and yet there's a prison where a local drug lord in running it, and yet it turns the prison into a world’s worst mall or condo center for all criminals. Now in all fairness there is some refreshing aspects about the movie especially when you have a Mel Gibson playing a sarcastic criminal whose does a great job playing a typical anti-hero with a good heart to a young kid in the movie while protecting his mom at the same time and yet he's always one step ahead of the people who try to screw with him, and in all honesty yes, it's a strait forward rehash of Payback but there's something about the movie that I haven't really quite experienced in quite a long time and the fact that we have a hilarious Mel Gibson that I honestly haven't quite experienced in quite a long time but yet it's the kind of Mel Gibson role that I actually missed him playing and sure I could always watch other Mel Gibson movies but this is one of those films with Mel that I actually liked and his performance alone is what makes this movie great from beginning till the final frame. Though the sad aspect of the film, is that this was Post-Mel Gibson rant where he goes all ballistic to his ex-wife, and I think that's the reason why Get the Gringo was sadly forgotten but, if you all think that Mel Gibson is a deranged nut bag, keep in mind that during the shot of the film, Mel learned that there was an elderly Mexican extra on the set that was suffering from cancer. And Mel got the man a visa by writing to the American Ambassador, and then personally arranged for him to be flown to an alternative cancer therapist in Arizona so, deep down the man still has a full heart, for which I have never doubted, I'm just guessing he's at the point after the controversy he was just accepting his fate and trying to live his life clean outside of Hollywood, though I can follow that into fact I don't claim myself to be the greatest detective. I would a hundred percent recommend too everyone watching Get the Gringo, for great reasons it's fun and entertaining and it also has that breath of fresh air that you'd never expect in a criminal, action crime film that I never thought I would be expecting to see in quite a long time. The film is on Tubi still being the top streaming service for me when it comes to streaming hidden gems but in case, you're tired of ads, have no fear the movie is on Amazon Prime so you can watch this great movie, ad free. And despite that there haven’t been a whole lot of recent Mel Gibson movies to watch this is one of those films after the post-voicemail rant that everyone will enjoy.