Secuestro Express

I am from venezuela
This is an awesome suspense and action movie, representing the reality of venezuela, when you see it you will be amazed and everybody I know that actually lives here (my friends and family went out of the cinema shocked of the country we are living in), the sad part IS ALL TRUE and it's one of those movies you can't leave the cinema to go to the bathroom you will be hypnotized and wondering in EVERY PART what's going to happen next. It's so realistic that Venezuelan government has forbidden the movie to be played on cinemas other than the capital, and the film will not be released for the national market

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This film was very well made and I would reccomend it most people. However, that is not the purpose of this review. Many people suggest in the other reviews that this film is a accurate repesentation of Venezuelan life. While this is accurate and does happen, one should not take away the impression that all Venezuelans have been kidnapped- or that anyone visiting Venezuela will be a target. True, it is necessary to take precautions that some cultures (specifically Americans) are not accustomed to. Yet, remember this is a film about crime set in Venezuela, not a film about the entire culture of Venezuela.

Its true but not really truth
Its a great as a movie that tries to portray all Latin American reality in less than 2 hours. Its nice to see some new Latin American talent trying to breakthrough in a filmmakers world. Its a little exaggerative but a very nice film, a thrilling ride.

But I got to admit that this movie brought a lot of controversy into my house, at first I was shocked I didnt believe that my city, the city where I lived most of my life was like that , then it came anger to the movie makers for making such an exaggerated film like that and finally it came acceptance that it truly represents Latin America in a sense that the corruption, drugs, injustice, poverty is all there.

The movie gets unrealistic when all the situations that the characters live occur in a period of a couple of hours and in the same day and to the same people. Its true that kidnappings in Venezuela occurs, its true that drugs occurs, its also true that carjacking, robbery occurs daily and thorugout the city...

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