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A Masterpiece!

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

So I might be the only person who thought this but this movie was the worse $20 ever spent. There is 0 character development and seems they wrote the movie as they when with boring characters that rarely say anything funny instead it relies on your cliché physical comedy. the action is just boring the characters seem like your typical "dumn males" They tried to put in some meaning into the movie but it is unclear and its just lost in the twisted story line and horrible slapstick humor. If I had to guess it might be something about the Iraqis being good guys and American soldiers being bumbling idiots? (really! the soldiers in this movie are worse than storm troopers! they don't land more then one hit on out "heroes") But with all its flaws it still managed to pull a semi happy ending where things just magically get better (spoiler) his mom is magically cured and partying it up oh and for some reason his family magically ignores the fact the main character is an efin drug lord (also main reason they where never in his life) the only reason I even gave it 3 stars is for the few times I thought damn this movie is so bad its amusing. Don't waste your money or time..

When his little brother Juan is captured by "rebel forces" in Iraq, drug cartel kingpin Don Julian Perez (Miguel Rodarte) puts together a team of cinco locos to go and rescue him. Why take such a risk? Because Mama Perez will never forgive Julian if he doesn't do it. When an assistant tries to show him where Iraq IS on a map, he snaps: "Forget the history lesson, let's get down to business." Sounds more than a little like the behind-the-scenes discussion(s) that preceded the U.$. invasion of Iraq, don't it? He is presented with a list of possible hombres to recruit for the mission, but draws the line at "the cannibal." (Unlike U.$. politicos, Don Perez has SOME scruples...) SAVING PRIVATE PEREZ is as slick as anything produced in Hollywood (or anywhere else, for that matter), with some truly stunning cinematography. The performances all around are on the money and the direction is surprisingly good (because I've never heard of this director before- though, hopefully, we'll be seeing and hearing a lot more from him in the future). Two of my favorite scenes involve Don Perez diving through the air, once skimming along horizontally while firing at his attackers in a way that would make John Woo blush and, later, leaping from the rooftop of one bombed-out building to another during a BLACKHAWK DOWN-type of rescue; very kung fu movie/Robert Rodriguez-ish. Carmelo's reference to Sasha the Russian as "Chacha" throughout was another nice little touch. Beto Gomez is a director to watch.

"Saving Private Perez" is not only the funniest film of the year, but it also features the best ensemble cast. "Saving Private Perez" gets some of Mexico's finest to act. I can best describe this film as Seven Samurai directed by Stephen Chow. It's a story of these seven Mexicans trying to rescue a drug lord's brother. It was insane and funny, but it isn't a parody of American war films it's a parody of drug dealers in Mexico and action films. In fact if it wasn't for the last frame of this film....This could be my favorite film of the year. Coming into the theater I could tell that they thought no one would want to watch this film there was trash all over the floor and the projector wasn't even in. Finally they realized "oh crap there is a crowd here. We better start this soon." I was worried, but this turned out to be the best "movie experience" for me all year. I went into a theater full of Mexicans all ready to laugh. When the first scene happens with these little kids playing with a sling shot you hear a guy a row behind us say "all hard" and I bursted out in laughs. This film does have its touching moments though. The film jumps around from the past to the present so you could see the protagonist's past. You see his life wasn't the easiest. He had to sell drugs in order to get by for his family after his father's death. Saving Private Perez gets all the style points for me as well. It had the best clothes as well as the best music. TOMATOES! (9.0/10)

Just saw this movie during a special midnight screening in the "Hola México" Film Festival in L.A., and let me tell you that I love it!!!! Really funny, with great characters and an imaginative and international story, for me as a Mexican was a touching but also exciting experience to be in an American cinema watching a great Mexican movie. What a crazy and well done idea for a movie. At last a Mexican movie where we are the heroes of the movie!!!!!! I can't wait to the commercial release of this movie in the U.S., I check the Internet and it seems it will be September the 16th of 2011. Viva México and Viva "Salvando al soldado Pérez"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And the soundtrack was incredible, the score and the songs, all delivering the right tone for the screenplay, the actors and everything that takes life on the screen!!!!!!!