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When the thugs who killed his father come looking for him, a young Latino teen and his mother Wanda were forced to flee from her home. Now that past has returned with a vengeance, but Wanda isn't running anymore. He chooses to battle the sins of the past.
You know the film is off to a paltry start when you see the rookie Rick Gonzalez attempt to strut bad-boy, awww-yeah stuff. Instead, he feels like a 21-year-old boy just going through puberty.
Clearly aware of the impact of visual style on the narrative, Jonathan Ogilvie uses a stylised 1920 Australian setting for a love triangle that involves all the basic drivers of human frailty
More care seems to have been taken with the cut of Gonzalez's sideburns than with the shape of the story, and the hyperbolic soundtrack does most of the work of the mise en scene.
For a film about growing up, Illegal Tender loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia.
August 25, 2007
San Francisco Chronicle
Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content.