Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 30 days to finish once started. Gringo is an easy to watch dark comedy that will leave you with a smile. The film stars david oyelowo, charlize theron who also produced, joel edgerton nashs brother, amanda seyfried, thandie newton, and sharlto copley, and follows a mildmannered businessman who is sent to mexico to. Directed by nash edgerton and starring joel edgerton, charlize theron, amanda seyfried and thandie newton. Below you will find everything you need to know, including cast, release date, rating, runtime, movie budget and, box office results. Were also including the worst comedies of 2018, so you know what to avoid, or if youre in for a chuckle of a different variety. Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, gringo joyrides across the border into mexico, where all is not as it seems for mildmannered american businessman harold soyinka david oyelowo. The comedic thriller plays rough, and is replete with violent moments of eyeopening nastiness, including an editedinthenickoftime neardepiction of a toe amputation. Gringo, a dark comedy mixed with whiteknuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman harold soyinka david oyelowo when he finds himself crossing the line from lawabiding citizen to wanted criminal. Check out the new gringo trailer starring amanda seyfried, charlize theron, and david oyelowo. Harold soyinka david oyelowo, a lowonthetotempole businessman working for a nondescript white collar business run by richard rusk joel edgerton and elaine markinson charlize theron travels to mexico to take a meeting, only to find out that he is being used as a. Old gringo is a 1989 american romantic adventure film starring jane fonda, gregory peck and jimmy smits. There were 8 other movies released on the same date, including a wrinkle in time, the strangers. Be the first to watch, comment, and share trailers and movie teasersclips.
Best comedy movies of 2018 by tomatometer rotten tomatoes. Neither david oyelowos likable character nor mexicans fare well in this mess of a movie wendy ide sun 11 mar 2018 04. Crossing the line from citizen to criminal, harold tangles with duplicitous business partners, mexican drug lords, international mercenaries, and the dea. Soyinka must survive mexico as he tangles with international drug cartels, mercenaries and the u. Very rarely does such a starstudded cast come together in a single film. Combining dark comedy with dramatic intrigue, gringo joyrides across the. Rent gringo 2018 starring david oyelowo and charlize theron on dvd and bluray.
Some weak acting from the two male leads but theron was great. Harold soyinka david oyelowo finds himself at the mercy of his backstabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted blackops mercenary. The strangerthanfiction saga of john mcafee, the computer. This movie tell story about an american businessman with a stake in a pharmaceutical company thats about to go public finds his life is thrown into turmoil by an incident in mexico. Gringo is about a good man trying to become successful and maintain his morals and ethics. Charlize therons five favorite films mar 06, 2018 to celebrate the release of her new film gringo this week, charlize theron stopped by rotten tomatoes and gave us her five favorite films. Mar 08, 2018 gringo dabbles in several genres, none particularly well. Best comedy movies of 2018 by tomatometer gringo, a dark comedy mixed with whiteknuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman harold soyinka david oyelowo when he finds himself crossing the line from lawabiding citizen to wanted criminal. Rate yourself with the cast and director of gringo rotten tomatoes. Youll notice we replaced the 5star fan ratings with the rotten tomatoes audience score to help you choose a movie to watch. Gringo 2018 nash edgerton synopsis, characteristics.
Those who miss the days of gibsons hardened movie characters will be in for a treat with get the gringo. Charlize theron, david oyelowo, and the cast and director of gringo rate themselves on things like how well they do. Nash edgertons film is mostly a comedy, but there are bits and pieces of a thriller and a crime drama and maybe a little action. Miss bala 3 gavels 29% rotten tomatoes the movie judge.
Gringo is both too long and too short, as if it accidentally hit a weird antisweet spot that we didnt even know existed when too many characters and too many plot threads crash into one another and nothing has enough time to gel and so its thinness means it overstays whatever welcome it might have had. Gringo was released in 2018 on friday, march 9, 2018 in nationwide movie theaters. While on a business trip to mexico, lawabiding american citizen harold soyinka finds himself in deep trouble when he inadvertently crosses the line from citizen to criminal. Then you were wise to visit rotten tomatoes, because were presenting our guide to the best comedies of 2018, ranked by tomatometer. That flood has since slowed to a trickle, but every now and then along comes a movie forged in qts image. A dark comedy mixed with whiteknuckle action and dramatic intrigue, explores the battle of survival for businessman harold soyinka when he finds himself crossing the line from lawabiding citizen to wanted criminal.
The websites critical consensus reads, gringo rounds up a bafflingly overqualified cast for a misfire of a comedy thats fatally undermined by its messy plot, poorly conceived characters, and obvious debts to better films. Gringo is just such a film, and wouldnt you know, it. Mar 09, 2018 unfortunately, gringos answer is a blunt no. Gringo is a 2018 american crime comedy film directed by nash edgerton and written by anthony tambakis and matthew stone. Distilling medical marijuana into easily dispensable pill form sounds like a pharmaceutical breakthrough worth celebrating. Rrated, movie star movies with a more nuanced treatment of adult relationships than the latest. Gringo is their first big, allstar movie aside from david michods war machine, and it seems a little outsized, a little overeagertoplease. There are a number of characters in this film but it never becomes confusing or slow the pace of the movie at all. In marketing, gringo was positioned as some kind of offkilter dark comedy revolving around a weed pill and a kidnapping in mexico, but the end result is. A wrinkle in time, gringo and thoroughbreds opening weekend of march 9 by. Movie gringo was released in march 9, 2018 in genre comedy. It was directed by luis puenzo and cowritten with aida bortnik, based on the novel the old gringo by mexican novelist carlos fuentes. And its not really interested in that question anyway, as this dark comedy paints its supposed heros southoftheborder torments in crude and nasty brush strokes. United states tba united states march 9, 2018 nationwide canada march 9, 2018.
Its a comedy that ended up taking itself way too seriously. An american businessman finds himself crossing the line from a lawabiding citizen to a criminal. In the end, thoroughbreds is the type of film that is right up my alley and may even make it into the discussion of my favorites movies of 2018, but i would definitely need to explain myself. But in the world harold finds himself in, he is surrounded by people with selfish greed as their motivation. Gringo stars thandie newton, david oyelowo, joel edgerton, sharlto copley, charlize theron, amanda seyfried, and many others. The film was screened out of competition at the 1989 cannes film festival. Get the gringo 2012 rotten tomatoes movie trailers. Everything you need to know about gringo movie 2018. An exhilarating mix of dark comedy, whiteknuckle action and dramatic intrigue, gringo joyrides into mexico, where mildmannered businessman harold soyinka david oyelowo finds himself at the mercy of his backstabbing business colleagues back home, local drug lords and a morally conflicted blackops mercenary. Its as if the energy were ramped up very high in an effort to juggle all the balls in the air. Related news 77 fearless female movie heroes who inspire us. Rrated, moviestar movies with a more nuanced treatment of adult relationships than the latest.
Tom santilli axs contributor mar 9, 2018 219 219 16541761 6 y2018m03d09. Yet, one must suspend belief to think a paranoid mexican drug dealer trusts a kidnapped, gringo, makeup artist within ten minutes of meeting her. Gringo 2018 this post has the most uptodate information on gringo as we continuously monitor the news. Released march 9th, 2018, gringo stars david oyelowo, charlize theron, joel edgerton, amanda seyfried the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 50 min, and received a. Directed by nash edgerton, gringo follows businessman harold soyinka david oyelowo who is down on his luck, worried about losing his job at a pharmaceutical company, and who also happens to be running from a cartel in mexico. The dangerous life of john mcafee 2016 rotten tomatoes. An unsettling story of madness, murder, and media manipulation. Nash edgerton was directed this movie and starring by david oyelowo.
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