Cartel Land (2015)
Cartel Land is a 2015 documentary film about vigilante groups fighting Mexican drug cartels directed by Matthew Heineman. The film focuses on Tim "Nailer" Foley, the leader of Arizona Border Recon, and Dr. José Mireles, a Michoacán-based physician who leads the Autodefensas. (en.wikipedia.org)
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Cartel Land belongs to 10 collections
1. Drugs (public: moderated by iconogassed - 14 stars)
2. Vigilante / Revenge (public: moderated by td888 - 14 stars)
3. Films available in HD (public: moderated by kubricksucks - 12 stars)
4. 88th Academy Award Nominations (public: moderated by Johnny Mo - 3 stars)
5. Netflix instant LATAM (public: moderated by Roman_Herbom - 1 star)
6. Sundance 2015 - U.S. Documentary Competition (public: moderated by chemical404)
7. Mexican drug cartel (public: moderated by ramynoodle)
8. Netflix USA (private: mpowell - 8 stars)
9. 2010s Movies on Netflix/Hulu I wanna watch (private: TraverseTown)
10. seen in 2017 (private: sproost)
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Two problems. First: The portrayal of the US-Americans is shortsighted. Foley seems to be an interesting guy, but all we get to see is him running around in the desert. What does his life look like apart from this? I guess it all would have contributed to the bigger picture. Second: The movie runs after the events that it depicts and even though these events are interesting and shocking, it always feels like it's missing a bit. Still a good documentary though but now I'm out of characters.
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Mo- | 80 69% |
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The segments about the American vigilantes seemed kind of tacked on and the movie suffered for it. The rest of the documentary was well told, had a charismatic protagonist and was incredibly well shot. Sometimes you wonder if it's even a documentary and not a feature film. The stakes are high and make for incredibly tense scenes.
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Focusing on the lives of the people affected by the Cartels and who are trying to take a stand is an interesting choice that leads to some gripping and painful moments. Fantastic insider footage that highlights the impossibility of dealing with the cartel/drug problem when it's entrenched in a corrupt system that has many ways of dealing with opposition. Goes well with the doc Narco Cultura, adding an even more nihilistic angle.
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very cinematic doco, shows a lot of grit (starting with the closeups of the 2 protagonists) but the true darkness remains just off-screen.
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Would have been a much stronger feature without the Arizona Trump patrol segments.
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Heartbreaking.
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One of those movies where you probably won't feel very good after watching. Does a good job of making you side with some people before slowly revealing that they're pretty terrible.
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Really, really great access. The Arizona leader was a really interesting guy, but there wasn't too much to the "story" on that side and it seemed like a waste to spend so much time there simply in the interest of balancing the two stories. On the Mexican side, the story was interesting, but too disjointed. Its ultimate strength was that it left me very intrigued with the Autodefensas, a group I'd never heard about before.
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Despite an amazing amount of access to the Autodefensas in Mexico, the movie also spends a lot of time on vigilantes in the U.S., though they clearly have less to offer in terms of stakes and stuggle than their Mexican counterparts.
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The story in Mexico is absolutely riveting (and horrific) but the American side is documented with such different (more simplistic) parameters that it's all a bit baffling to my young Finnish mind. Especially since the structure of the film invites you to draw unclear parallels between the two locations. The whole issue is therefore presented in weird light. Harsh complexities of the drug problem are framed exclusively to the Mexican side. Maybe it makes more sense as an American narrative.
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Heineman had quite amazing access to the middle of the events but the movie is shoddily constructed into a disjointed whole. Also the US redneck side of it seems a bit unnecessary as everyone but the leader seem like racist rednecks.
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How the filmmakers managed to obtain 90% of this footage is incredible in it's own right. I'm a massively intrigued by the cartels, their activities, how they operate, and how Mexico allows them to continue to exist, so this was an easy watch for me (although not EASY, because there are some heavy, heavy stories in here). Fantastically documented, well shot, my only complaint is that I would have liked to focus more on the US vigilantes than the occasional checking-in every 20 minutes we got.
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| Feb 01, 2016 | Magnolia | 75 31% |
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Little bit of a mess structure wise.
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Dalboz | 79 63% |
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Suture Self | 7 68% |
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Above all, CARTEL LAND documents the frustrations shared between two wildly different organizations that, in a very roundabout way, are inextricably tied to one another. There's an obvious sense in which one struggle is more sympathetic than the other, but no matter how valid or invalid their frustrations may be, the existence of these vigilante groups is more or less a result of a shared problem. And that's something both the Mexican and US govt. have failed to recognize.
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| Jan 25, 2016 | eveclo | 80 71% |
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WWallce4prez | 78 66% |
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One half of this story is thoroughly engrossing and almost plays out like a modern western. A good one at that. The other half, is a bunch of redneck-wannabe-John Rambos who spout non-sense. This opinion isn't based on politics, but solely on the bland U.S. aspect of the film. Still, the former, along with some spectacular editing, is good enough to make for one of the year's best documentaries.
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| Jan 24, 2016 | toro913 | 69 77% |
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