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Latin-AICN: A first look at SIN TON NI SONIA

Father Geek here with a rare review from the heart of Mexico... I can't say that I agree or disagree with our reviewer on this, I know little about it and I have to maintain a certain "Juicio Imparcial" until I find out more, or get to see it. The film could be as described (Guano), or it could be "Cowagaya!", or more than likely somewhere inbetween.

Here's Jotarou down in Mexico City...

Hola, Jotarou a first time writer, long time reader sending a review of Mexico's latest "movie sensation" Sin Ton Ni Sonia (a crappy words game that really goes nowhere, which, by the way, sums the movie quite well if you catch my drift).

The main problems with the Mexican film industry are (amongst many others) budget restrains (soap operas have waaaay more money than any movie nowadays), and they're totally localist (many of the jokes are 100% Mexican and nobody outside Mexico will ever get them, take for example "La Ley de Herodes"), and completely self referencial. "Sin Ton Ni Sonia" suffers from all three and badly.

The films opens with a guy called Orlando who works as a voice artist dubbing an "Unsolved Misteries"-like show, here it finds its first and big, big problem, nobody that does not have access to mexican dubbed television is ever going to get the "punchlines" (which aren't as funny, I may add), so, this guy has problems in dealing and communicating with his girlfriend, a blond, new-age girl that is studying ESP and is a heatlhy-products fan. So, before anyone can yell "Plot Twist", the movie gets bombed with an old lady serial killer in the organ traffic business, two american cops (poorly performed and clichéd) some old flame from Orlando's past (who reads crappy comic books).

Well, let's just say the movie starts nowhere and ends exactly there, the dialogue is boring, the directing job is only above the average movie advertising spot, the editing and cinematography looks like it was tailor made for a POD music video and the script has more holes than a swiss cheese. Mexican cinema is still lost. Avoid this piece of guano.

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