"El Cartel” starring Jose Luis Franco, Freddy Douglas and Mauricio Islas.

Oct 05,2010 - Movie of the Day: "El Cartel” starring Jose Luis Franco, Freddy Douglas and Mauricio Islas.

Length: 1:27:04

Date of Review: 10-05-2010

Rating : 6.50 (well done independent film about Drug Cartel in Mexico).

Movie Review: The storyline in this movie was pretty simple, a newspaper journalist looking for his break decides to go to Mexico to interview a Top Cartel chief and find out the how, why and what has made him the baddest dude in the 70 billion dollar a year Business Of Drug trafficking.

It actually was a surprising movie to me because of the way in which the director filmed and created this, the lesson #´s was creative and made real life sense, it was like a manual to do the drug business ..Rule # bla bla do this , don’t do that ,etc etc.

The first half of the movie I probably would have rated it a 7-8 but then the content and rest of the movie just becomes too unbelievable considering we are dealing here with the most ruthless, untrusting people in the world, yet he drops his guard and treats them like friends he has known for years and tells the reporter stuff I am sure no cartel jeffe would ever tell to anyone, let alone a reporter.

It had me really thinking wow, what a very upbeat and “real” start and turned it into stupidness and unbelievability as I figure the guy didn’t get to the Top of a 70 Billion dollar industry doing things that the movie depicted he would be doing or saying although most of the lessons he gave even till the end made complete sense the movie got lost trying to let this LA reporter and 2 friends enter a Top Cartel´s life and then to invite him to his house to stay with him was just as ridiculous as some of the mistakes the Jeffe allowed.

Although the end says it all, it was really a decent overall watch and since most of it was based on the lessons on how to be a Cartel Jeffe (chief) which those I found pretty realistic and stuff you need to do to become the big cheese this definitely was worthy of my time and worth the money to grab it in your local video store.

1 Thumb up!! The fact that the Lessons to be a Cartel chief aren´t too different from the Lessons we should maintain as a Independent business owner or Entrepreneur. (Maybe drop a few just to stay out of prison).Good watch.

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