This film is all over the place. There are a lot of good ideas and potentially interesting situations, but many are badly handled.
Most of the scenes with the guerrillas work well, with good dialogue and a fair amount of tension. But almost the entire midsection is a bus ride with a drunken paramilitary, his drunk girlfriend, and the naive teen babe he's hitting on. Then the paramilitary and the guerrillas meet up for a melodramatic near-finale, followed by a couple of brief epilogues, one violent, the other ambiguously hopeful.
A disappointment, especially given the possibilities offered by the basic story.
Most of the scenes with the guerrillas work well, with good dialogue and a fair amount of tension. But almost the entire midsection is a bus ride with a drunken paramilitary, his drunk girlfriend, and the naive teen babe he's hitting on. Then the paramilitary and the guerrillas meet up for a melodramatic near-finale, followed by a couple of brief epilogues, one violent, the other ambiguously hopeful.
A disappointment, especially given the possibilities offered by the basic story.