Mel Gibson's new film, also known as "How I Spent My Summer Vacation" is a rough, dusty prison movie, that starts with him driving a car through the wall on the border into Mexico.
There he's arrested by corrupt Mexican police, and he and his unconscious passenger in the clown's costume part ways.
The rest of the movie follows Gibson as he finds his feet in La Pueblito, the tough Tijuana prison, where he's helped by a young boy who hangs around the prison looking for the man who killed the boy's father.
A combination of Gibson's ongoing real-life rantings and his reduced box office pull have resulted in this film getting a low-key, art-house plus DirecTV release, so you may not find it.
If you do, you'll see that Gringo is a bit of a mess, but is still a decent Mel Gibson film.
It's no Apocalypto, I'll warn you that, but it's worth seeing nonetheless.
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