This movie is literally about a stranger killing strangers. It begins with a group of Mexicans in a truck being smuggled into the United States. Their truck breaks down leaving them with no choice but to cross on foot. Meanwhile a hunter and his dog are out hunting rabbits. Soon he sees the immigrants crossing and begins picking them off one by one. This would have been sad if you knew anything at all about these people. There was absolutely no emotional connection to any of these characters. Watching them get killed was not emotionally gripping or even the entertainment you feel when watching shallow or cruel characters get killed off in horror films. Our villain has no backstory as to why he despises immigrants so much he decides out of the blue to murder several people. There's no flashbacks of his racist father and he doesn't have PTSD or something to let the audience in on his intentions. They don't even specify on whether or not he's done this before. It's just like well I was out walking my dog and decided to murder. Really makes you miss Negan cause he'll tell you in a heartbeat the motive behind his intentions cause he's an actual villain. Most of the movie is him chasing the ones that got away. There's a bit of character development between two of the characters but feels like too little too late at that point. In the end I felt sorriest for the dog but I won't spoil why. The whole movie I was not emotionally connected so there wasn't anybody to root for personally though I understand who I was supposed to be rooting for. I thought the end was mundane and the villain begging for his life felt so out of character for him seeing as how he hated them so much. Now on the political front too many people took this crap too seriously. It's a horror movie. You conservatives AND liberals have to see everything as just that; liberal or conservative. Let it go it's a movie.
Review of Desierto
