Mariachi Gringo **
Dir: Tom
Gustafson. With: Shawn Ashmore, Martha Higareda, Kate Burton. 107 mins. Cert:
NC
Are distributors utilising
some hidden Lucky Dip option on Netflix in deciding what to release? Case in
point: this sunny, good-natured yet inescapably middling indie about a
depressed Kansas farmboy (minor X-Man Shawn Ashmore) who finds unlikely joy in
becoming a mariachi. Tom Gustafson’s film proves genial to a fault: those
golden cornfields don’t appear remotely depressing, while raven-haired waitress
Martha Higareda exists solely to turn a white male frown upside down. Overlook
its dramatic shortcomings, and you’ll still require a tolerance for music waved
politely away in restaurants: after 107 minutes of pseudo-Calexicana, I’d be
happy never to hear another insistent trumpet again.
Mariachi Gringo opens in selected cinemas from today.
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