A meandering picture that seems more concerned interested in exploiting seedy Mexican atmosphere than telling a solid story, this thrill-less thriller is 100% tension-free. It spends so much time recording images of urban blight that it feels less like a crime thriller than a character study of a rundown city. Traumatized by the deaths of her two small children in a car accident, Mitch Cobb (Stacy Edwards) reluctantly accompanies her brother, amateur photographer Sam (John Zander), on a Latin American hiking vacation. During a brief stopover in Mexico City, Sam disappears from a cantina. The desperate Mitch can't get much action out of American Ambassador Mills (Rob...
Released:
2002
Rated:
R
Length:
88 mins