"How I Spent My Summer Vacation" sounded like it was either going to be a slasher horror, travel comedy or a coming of age movie. But taking a closer look at the movie info, it's Mel Gibson and the movie plot is nothing remotely close to the impression given by the movie title.
Yup Mel Gibson, one of the most recognized but unbankable Hollywood star right now. His DUI anti-semitism remarks and the ex girlfriend's domestic violence still lingers around his reputation. Jodie Foster tried to put his career back on tracks with The Beaver but poor box office collection in the USA seemed to put the final nail on his career coffin.
Well he's back and in a movie that seemed seemed to tailor fit Mel Gibson's brand of screen charisma. It also seemed that to minimize the risk of another box office bomb in the United States, Mel Gibson's independent production company, Icon Production will be releasing this movie through video on demand. The rest of the world who don't "hate" Mel Gibson that much will be getting a theatrical release.
The Plot
The story of Driver, a career criminal
who is picked up by the Mexican police as he desperately tries to cross
the border in a car stuffed full of stolen cash. The police take the
cash and dump him in the infamous El Pueblito prison - a hell on earth
where the prison gangs run the show.
Driver has no ID or fingerprints but he
still gets a visit from a corrupt American Embassy official who has
heard about the money. If Driver doesn't find a way of paying him off
while he's inside, then he's going to let the authorities know where
Driver is. And it won't be long before the guys he stole the money from
find him too. Driver knows it is sink or swim. He hooks up with a young
boy who shows him how to survive in the prison, but the kid has a
terrible secret. He shares a rare blood type with Javi - the criminal
who ruthlessly controls the prison and everyone in it. The kid is Javi’s
life insurance policy and he has doctors on standby to transplant his
liver whenever the time comes. But Driver has other ideas and pretty
soon he devises an audacious plan to escape with the kid, the kid’s
mother and the money.
(Plot Outline taken from Cathay Cineplexes)
How I Spent My Summer Vacation or otherwise known as Get The Gringo in America
i was hoping for a movie review :). I like this movie though... actually like many of mel gibson's movies.
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