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I Love Miami (2006)

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7 out of 10 people found the following comment useful :-
This is an insult, 18 October 2006

Author: lailyko from Mexico

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I don't know if I'm actually giving you a spoiler or not, but just to be on the safe side, be warned.

I expected so much more from this movie... Few times in my life have I been so disappointed by a movie, I don't even know where to begin. When I saw the previews, I thought it might be a good storyline... Fidel arriving in Miami as a "balsero".

But its very clear that those who wrote this story/screenplay were not Cubans at all! Much less were they well-informed on Cuban culture (expressions, mannerisms, history, politics, etc.). You can tell from the start that most of the "actors" are Mexican and they really suck at portraying Cubans. Mexicans have a way of imitating Cubans that is really cheesy, over the top, and at times even insulting. And that is what they have done in this movie. Obviously nobody took the time to hire a Cuban dialect coach. It is so sad that even the main character (Fidel) doesn't have even the slightest Cuban accent.

On the other hand, I also could not understand why on Earth they spoke most of the movie in English. And it was BAD English. The kind of ESL accent that is very common in Mexicans. I found even that to be annoying.

Johnny Lozada as "Carlitos" was such a cliché of a Latin gay man that it wasn't even funny. This was beyond Overacting. I don't know who in their right mind thinks that Alicia Machado/"Gisselle" can act. And the list goes on.

I kept watching this movie hoping it would get better, but that never happened. You keep waiting for the story to get better or for "something" to actually happen, but it never does. Not even the soundtrack is worth a penny. Don't waste your money. I'm sorry I did.

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4 out of 6 people found the following comment useful :-
Worst Movie Ever!, 26 October 2006

Author: escritorcubamex from Mexico

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This is a spoiler, so readers please be aware. Although this movie had the participation of Castro's Daughter it is not a guarantee of good production neither good acting, on one hand we have the over rated Mexican soap opera actors and an ex miss universe trying to play in a serious roll. In México they've been trying to sell the idea that is a good movie since it has popular actors and are trying to catch the eye of the press by selling the idea of Castro's Daughter telling some secrets about Fidel's life, just another lie. More than a drama this movie should be considered as pure science fiction next to Ed Woods work (sorry Ed), cheesy and boring. What will be next? a movie about Che Guevaras life trying to star in American Idol?

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Complete disappointment, 5 September 2007

Author: rodrigoreyes from United States

I was so excited when I came across this DVD at the video store because the plot sounded so good - Fidel Castro finding himself a refugee in Miami. Well, that is about where the entertainment stopped. The movie is bad...really, really bad. The acting is awful - with Alicia Machado being the worst. Ex-Menudo Johnny Lozada is somewhat believable as a gay man but the character is pointless. Even Jaime Camil, who is usually pretty good, was awful in this movie. The only likable character and actor is the little kid, even if he looks a little too much like Elian Gonzales. The Spanish dialog throughout the movie is bad because they do not even sound Cuban with Machado overdoing the accent and Camil not even attempting it. When they speak English it is even worst because the accents are just the awful stereo-typical portrait of a Hispanic immigrant . To make matters worst, there is really no story there. The movie is billed as a dark comedy but to be any type of comedy it would first have to be funny. Don't waste your time with this movie.

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6 out of 13 people found the following comment useful :-
A necessary kind of cinema, 2 November 2006

Author: Chingatumadre9 from Mexico

This is the kind of movie that Hollywood will never do: entertaining, with very good acting, photography, soundtrack, and superb script, but at the same time a NEW movie, a movie that copies no one before, a movie that talks about the hypocrisy found in so many people (specially in USA), from the "2 sides", the Cuban-American, and the Yankee people, while giving you a story so interesting that maintains your attention focused on the screen all the time. A movie with the necessary guts to cast Alina, the daughter of Fidel Castro, and Huber Matos, leader of the Cuban revolution.

As I am a Doctor en Filosofia y Letras from Cuba, I would like to bring your attention to the awesome exactitude of the Cuban - Spanish that the different actors speak, taking into account the very different Spanish that Fidel really speaks (as anyone that has heard him has noticed, far from an average Cuban, as his father was from Galicia), from the Spanish that would probably speak a second generation Cuban-American, like so many characters on the movie. Also, it is a very risky decision, from the economic point of view, to make the characters speak English, sometimes "spanglish", in half of the movie, approximately: but this is ACTUALLY Miami! It IS like this!, as anyone that has lived here for a long time knows.

In a word, NECESSARY.

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