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Gringo

Cert: 15A; Now showing In his directorial debut Australian stuntman Nash Edgerton directs his brother Joel and others in a crime caper that hits some notes, misses others but should provide a happy, harmless couple of hours for fans of the genre.

Harold Soyinka (David Oyelowo) believes he is achieving the American dream. Somewhere on a corporate ladder in a pharmaceutical firm run by Richard Rusk (Joel Edgerton) and Elaine Markinson (Charlize Theron) he is surprised to discover his finances are not very healthy and horrified to learn that he might soon lose his job.

Assured by his bosses that this is not the case, Harold is dispatched to their plant in Mexico where things swiftly go from bad to worse.

Having committed the great pharma coup of creating cannabis pills and about to sell the company based on that, they’re looking to cover the illegal tracks that led there.

Harold lives by his father’s advice to always follow the rules and knew nothing of the dodgy dealings he was party to. The discovery is painful and compounded swiftly afterwards when his wife Bonnie (Thandie Newton) leaves him. And for some rather inexplicable reason Amanda Seyfried features in a subplot that complicates the already feverish plot.

The characters are fairly one note, as is the message such as it is. But it aims to be nothing other than entertainment and it is if your tastes run to brash, busy capers. AINE O’CONNOR