I went to see this movie after reading the endless good reviews on IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes. I think this will be the movie that finally weans me off of trusting aggregate review sites.
This movie has a wonderful premise and setting, to explore the horrors of the modern day drug war in Mexico through a magical realism thriller.
What this movie delivers, is a jumbled and confused mess of sophomoric metaphors, weak plot, and one dimensional characters. The movie struggles to connect one scene to the next sensibly, and plays out like a Telemundo soap opera, introducing increasingly lazy plot devices to propel the movie forward.
The use of children characters in such a violent and dark setting should have evoked a sense of extreme empathy and horror for their real life counterparts. However, the writing is so basic and underdeveloped that the movie uses youths in violent situations as a crutch and substitute for its lack of anything truly poignant or thought provoking to communicate about the situation in Mexico.
Overall, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is one of the worst and most overhyped limited releases I have seen in recent history.
This movie has a wonderful premise and setting, to explore the horrors of the modern day drug war in Mexico through a magical realism thriller.
What this movie delivers, is a jumbled and confused mess of sophomoric metaphors, weak plot, and one dimensional characters. The movie struggles to connect one scene to the next sensibly, and plays out like a Telemundo soap opera, introducing increasingly lazy plot devices to propel the movie forward.
The use of children characters in such a violent and dark setting should have evoked a sense of extreme empathy and horror for their real life counterparts. However, the writing is so basic and underdeveloped that the movie uses youths in violent situations as a crutch and substitute for its lack of anything truly poignant or thought provoking to communicate about the situation in Mexico.
Overall, "Tigers Are Not Afraid" is one of the worst and most overhyped limited releases I have seen in recent history.