TRANSPECOS (USA 2016) ***1/2
Directed by Greg Kwedar
Starring: Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, Clifton Collins Jr.
Review by Gilbert Seah
Co-written and directed by Greg Kwedar, this thriller/drama has the odd setting of the desert surrounding a makeshift U.S./Mexican border control post. It begins as a drama about the three stationed patrol agents that turns into a thriller once trouble starts. The set-up seems so ideal for a superb thriller that one wonders why no other filmmaker has ever made a film with this setting.
The film stars three excellent unknown actors Johnny Simmons, Gabriel Luna, and Clifton Collins, Jr. as border patrol agents Benjamin Davis, Lances Flores and Lou Hobbs respectively. The film begins with the three buddying around, making jokes about their job and talking trash. It is a good way to start the film where the audience is introduced to the 3 characters. It turns out that…
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