Gringo

This is a peculiarly 90's style crime movie as a bunch of characters meet up and get entwined in a fake kidnapping, drug smuggling and corporate bastardry. There's a peculiar tonal dysfunction at the beginning - Joel Edgerton and Charlize Theron are the two corporate bastards whose behaviour inspires their employee, David Oyelowo, to fake his own kidnapping while in Mexico in hopes of running away with the ransom - but Theron and Edgerton are never given much interesting to do (despite both being executive producers) and are played way too self indulgently. Still, there are compensations as Oyelowo encounters other adventures that complicate his fake-kidnapping - in particular, Sharlto Copley has one of his best performances in a while as the mercanary called in to recover Oyelowo. And the ending proves reasonably satisfying as well. But the over-indulgence of the first couple of scenes still leave an uneasy taste in the mouth, so this is largely a mixed bag with some good elements.