This movie has an interesting, albeit somewhat formulaic, film-noir story as its foundation.
However, the movie ended up being too tedious to watch because of the excessively long segments devoted to hammering the same message time and again.
For instance, the wake and burial of one of the characters includes some creative twists---but ends up taking ~40 minutes of the film, so long before it moves on people in the audience start checking their watches.
This could have been of "City of god" caliber, but will never be. I'm not sure why it reached such a cult status in Colombia.
However, the movie ended up being too tedious to watch because of the excessively long segments devoted to hammering the same message time and again.
For instance, the wake and burial of one of the characters includes some creative twists---but ends up taking ~40 minutes of the film, so long before it moves on people in the audience start checking their watches.
This could have been of "City of god" caliber, but will never be. I'm not sure why it reached such a cult status in Colombia.