Highway Patrolman Details

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I rented this movie because I tend to believe that Hollywood films are getting more and more clich? and predictable as time goes by, so if you want to find wicked independent movies you have to look to other countries, and what do you know I was right!

I'd never heard of this film before renting it and have not heard about any of the actors or people involved in Highway Patrolman but I was pleasantly relieved to find a movie packed with atmosphere and that independent spirit lacking in big-budget flicks. There are quite a few plot holes in this movie and most of it would probably not be plausible in reality but having said that, the role of a Mexican Highway Patrolman is one that could only be from Mexico, complete with the reality we know to be true that they are all corrupt and just looking to make a quick buck!

Our main character is Lieutenant Pedro Rojas who along with his best friend Anibal Morales graduate from police academy to start out as highway patrolman in North Mexico. Their guiding principal being that 'you stop the vehicle first, and then you decide what law(s) they have broken'. Rojas tries his hardest to play it straight but eventually even he can't escape the realities of the job, and the immorality that comes with it.

Apart from the plot holes this is an intriguing movie and definitely one worth watching.

[Highly rated reviewer]

alex

i thought easy rider and blue electra glide could come up to something, and ... well it did, repo man was great, but then, i'm notgreat dire ctorlike alex cox, so by standards of the old electric cinema in portobello road this is better than star wars or alien, but it's still only five stars