A couple of thieves team up to take down a bigger thief who steals from poor Latin immigrants by feeding on their insecurities and selling them a lot of crap that they don't need and that doesn't work anyway. In fact, Alejandro (Fernando Colunga) and Emilio (Miguel Varoni) were once partners with the evil Moctezuma (Saul Lisazo), but they believe there should be some honor among thieves, whereas Moctezuma does not.
Thus the title of the film, which is apparently an old proverb (as all proverbs are) that goes something like, "A thief who steals from a thief will 100 years of forgiveness…"—which, if you think about it, is kinda silly. But so is this movie. To get at the big man, they employ the use of "real" immigrants of the very sort Moctezuma has been robbing all these years.
Though he is American-born and of Cuban decent, Ladron Que Roba a Ladron director Joe Menendez made his bones writing and directing Spanish-language segments for the Latin television network Telemundo, which caters to the telenovela crowd. He also worked on a lot of children's television, wherein the storylines are deliberately simple, laid out in excruciatingly redundant detail and have a fairytale quality whether they are actually fairytales or not.
All of this shows up in Ladron Que Roba a Ladron , from the raft of novela actors looking wholly and completely like novela actors, to the painfully didactic storytelling, to its fairytale ending. It would like to be Ocean's 11 , and it would be, had George Clooney and company made a glossy Spanish-language fairytale caper movie—for children.
Distributor: Lionsgate
Cast: Fernando Colunga, Miguel Varoni, Julie Gonzlo, Oscar Torre, Gabriel Soto, Ivonne Montero, Saul Lisazo and Sonya Smith
Director: Joe Menendez
Screenwriter: Jose Angel Henrickson
Producers: Roni Menendez, James McNamara and Benjamin Odell
Genre: Caper comedy; Spanish-language, subtitled
Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual content
Running time: 98 min.
Release date: August 31, 2007 ltd.
Thus the title of the film, which is apparently an old proverb (as all proverbs are) that goes something like, "A thief who steals from a thief will 100 years of forgiveness…"—which, if you think about it, is kinda silly. But so is this movie. To get at the big man, they employ the use of "real" immigrants of the very sort Moctezuma has been robbing all these years.
Though he is American-born and of Cuban decent, Ladron Que Roba a Ladron director Joe Menendez made his bones writing and directing Spanish-language segments for the Latin television network Telemundo, which caters to the telenovela crowd. He also worked on a lot of children's television, wherein the storylines are deliberately simple, laid out in excruciatingly redundant detail and have a fairytale quality whether they are actually fairytales or not.
All of this shows up in Ladron Que Roba a Ladron , from the raft of novela actors looking wholly and completely like novela actors, to the painfully didactic storytelling, to its fairytale ending. It would like to be Ocean's 11 , and it would be, had George Clooney and company made a glossy Spanish-language fairytale caper movie—for children.
Distributor: Lionsgate
Cast: Fernando Colunga, Miguel Varoni, Julie Gonzlo, Oscar Torre, Gabriel Soto, Ivonne Montero, Saul Lisazo and Sonya Smith
Director: Joe Menendez
Screenwriter: Jose Angel Henrickson
Producers: Roni Menendez, James McNamara and Benjamin Odell
Genre: Caper comedy; Spanish-language, subtitled
Rating: PG-13 for language and some sexual content
Running time: 98 min.
Release date: August 31, 2007 ltd.
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