Asalto Al Cine (2011)

Asalto al Cine (2011)

Asalto al Cine is a Mexican movie directed by Irina Gomez Concheiro released in 2011. This movie is a considered a Comedy about 4 youths in Mexico City who collectively decide to rob a movie theater. Negus, Chale, Sapo, and Chata are all from the same town, and around the same age. They have the same interests - they like to smoke marijuana, they like to listen to hip-hop music, they like to “chill”. They mostly just have each other, most of them come from troubled families.

In some scenes we see the clan just relaxing, mostly high off their minds. Sometimes they rap to hip hop melodies just to get by. They do not read books or stay up all night studying. School and excelling academically in life is the last thing on their minds.

After some time in the movie the clan comes up with a brilliant idea to rob a local movie theater. They plan their robbery carefully. They first went to “see a movie” and investigate the movie theater and how they can execute their plan. They took notes and finally came up with the perfect plan.

When the day came to rob the theater, almost everything went as planned except when one of the group members did not look at his phone on time. Some unexpected event came up while robbing the theater but they were in the end successful in doing so.

I did not enjoy this film as much as the others, I thought it was a bit too long. I appreciated the fact that most of the scenes were raw and that the actors were just regular looking and it seemed as though they were not “professional actors”.