Fresh
Give "Desierto" credit for this: There has never been a more appropriate time for a tense thriller about Mexican immigrants avoiding the murderous advances of a gun-wielding American lunatic.
Eric Kohn, indieWIRE
Desierto
A chase where only the strongest survive.
2015 · 1h 28m · R
Drama, Thriller
Directed by
Jonás Cuarón
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Desierto
Overview
A group of Mexican emigrants attempts to cross the Mexican-US border. What begins as a hopeful journey becomes a harrowing, bloody and primal fight for survival when a deranged, rifle-toting vigilante and his loyal Belgian Malinois dog chase the group of unarmed men and women through the treacherous borderland. In the harsh, unforgiving desert terrain, the odds are stacked firmly against them as they discover there’s nowhere to hide from the unrelenting, merciless killer.
Director and cast
- Jonás Cuarón Director
- Gael García Bernal as Moises
- Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Sam
- Diego Cataño as Mechas
- Marco Pérez as Lobo
- Alondra Hidalgo as Adela
- Óscar Flores Guerrero as Ramiro
- David Lorenzo as Ulysse
- Lew Temple as Border Patrol
- Butch McCain as Un animateur radio
- Claudia Angélica Amador Castellanos as Migrant
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
64%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A generic thriller that happens to be wrapped in political packaging. That packaging is sometimes more interesting than the thrills themselves.
Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times
Rotten
Subtlety sits this one out.
Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times
Rotten
Ugly and ham-fisted where it should be exciting and edifying, "Desierto" comes up short both as blood-soaked entertainment and as a blood-stirring polemic.
Peter Sobczynski, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
There's been a surprisingly wide range of works with extra weight in a deeply polarized year. Desierto is the nastiest of them all, but it's also the shallowest.
David Sims, The Atlantic
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