Get prepared to witness a pretty insane trailer (see below) for the Chilean horror "The Gravity of the Pugilist". This vision all comes from director Jorge Mella. The movie stars Celine Reymond, Patricio Valladares, and Francisco Melo. The film has a beautiful yet gritty retro thing going on. Here are the details: Synopsis: "In a small town in Chile, women and young children have been mysteriously vanishing. Sometimes their mutilated bodies…...
- 9/9/2013
- Horrorbid
I covered writer/director Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s potentially awesome action flick “Mandrill” way back in the year that was 2009, but the film is just now getting around to entertaining folks living within the boundaries of Region 1. Which is a good thing, really, because I haven’t had the opportunity to check it out. That issue will hopefully resolve itself this February. Can’t remember what this one is all about? Read this: Completing contracts with ruthless efficiency Mandrill is always on the lookout for the man who killed his parents when he was a child. When a contract comes up and it looks like this may finally be the man responsible for the death of his parents Mandrill discovers that the only way to get to him is through his daughter Dominic. But revenge is often a terrible cycle and Mandrill may not see this through to the end.
- 12/29/2011
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
Year: 2009
Directors: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Writers: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 6 out of 10
Take a dash of 007, "Kill Bill", and "Shaft", throw in some cool Latin disco, spice it up with some badass martial arts and gunplay, and ground it with an extremely appealing turn from its lead, and you get "Mandrill", Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's sorta-retro martial arts/hitman movie that joins the ever-growing list of sharply-designed revisionist B movies. This time around the riff is on the sort of James Bond knockoffs that every country tends to make a million of, and stars Marko Zaror, Chile's answer to The Rock.
The title character is a young hitman on the hunt for Don Mario (Luis Alarcon), the man who killed his mother when he was just a lad, and Mandrill's latest assignment conveniently requires him to kill said one-eyed killer, now a drug...
Directors: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
Writers: Ernesto Díaz Espinoza
IMDb: link
Trailer: link
Review by: rochefort
Rating: 6 out of 10
Take a dash of 007, "Kill Bill", and "Shaft", throw in some cool Latin disco, spice it up with some badass martial arts and gunplay, and ground it with an extremely appealing turn from its lead, and you get "Mandrill", Ernesto Diaz Espinoza's sorta-retro martial arts/hitman movie that joins the ever-growing list of sharply-designed revisionist B movies. This time around the riff is on the sort of James Bond knockoffs that every country tends to make a million of, and stars Marko Zaror, Chile's answer to The Rock.
The title character is a young hitman on the hunt for Don Mario (Luis Alarcon), the man who killed his mother when he was just a lad, and Mandrill's latest assignment conveniently requires him to kill said one-eyed killer, now a drug...
- 10/7/2009
- QuietEarth.us
Mandrill Directed by Ernesto Díaz Espinoza Chilean director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza and his action star collaborator, Marko Zaror, are three films deep now, with a fourth (in 3D!) on the way. Clearly they've found a formula that works for them, but I'm not as convinced. There's plenty of buzz around these guys, and they're hyping their newest, Mandrill, quite enticingly. IMDb lists Mandrill's tagline as "Cooler than Shaft, Hotter than Bond, Faster than Lee," and my Fantastic Fest packet promises that I'll be one of the first to experience the future of action heroism in Mr. Zaror. Now, I don't want to try and predict Zaror's career, and he definitely has the martial arts chops and camera-ready looks to be an action star, but I don't think this is the movie that is going to take him there. It simply tries so earnestly to present a character cooler than Shaft,...
- 9/30/2009
- by Emmet Duff
- SoundOnSight
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