Description
For some he's a god. For others he's the devil incarnate. Fidel Castro is demystified in this black comedy whereby an internal plot leaves him stranded on a raft and eventually lands him, ironically, on the coast of Miami...like so many Cuban castaways who sought to escape him. Para algunos es un Dios, para otros el mismisimo Demonio. El polemico Fidel Castro es desmitificado en una tragicomedia en donde, victima de un atentado interno, sobrevive a un naufragio llegando ironicamente a las costa de Miami como uno as de tantos balseros.
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INTERESTING MOVIE
The movie captures Fidel's culinary skills as well as his love for the game of baseball. Stranded in Miami, Castro pretends to be someone else. He befriends a young boy, who knows who he really is. His life among those who despise him, forces him to re-examine his life and the revolution. Brief nudity, language. Great movie if you want to learn Spansih swear words. The movie protrays Fidel as a flawed human being with lofty ideas and not as a monster with horns, which might turn off the Fidel haters.
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Good, but flawed.
The movie's premise is brilliant. A cantankerous, vicious, temperemental Fidel Castro is on a boat in Cuba, which gets blown up in an attempted coup. He survives on a raft, drifts with the current and wakes up in Florida. Naturally, he loses his beard and takes on another name and keeps trying to return to Cuba. The actor playing the dictator is excellent whenever the dictator, who is used to everyone being a bootlicker and jumping at his every whim, is contradicted or frustrated in his demands. If the movie had simply stayed with this story, it would have been perfect, but the problem is that a couple of parallel stories (a boy being bullied at school, infidelity between couples and an incoherent side story of arm smuggling) detract from the story. Even so, the movie is worth buying. It will give you a good laugh.
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Too Political for me
I got this movie solely because Jaime Camil was in it but the movie was too political with too much blah blah blah on Fidel Castro - soooo! I didn't like this movie that much! How can I return this crap? LOL! I do love Miami though!
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I've seen better movies
It could have been a better story with another director or better script,Seems like the producers of this movie like Fidel Castro in some way,a lot of famous people in the casting for a poor production,Johnny from Menudo,Jaime Camil,Felipe from Escandalo TV, and ex Miss universe Cecilia Machado,mediocre direction and acting
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BOOK 'EM DANNO!
A great concept that could have made for great satire and comedy. But, alas it did not happen. However for director, it may be a good start to a successful artistic career.
I especially liked the crime scene after the fire. It was done in a most realistic manner.
Lastly, buy the movie (it's almost impossible to rent) and make up your own mind.
