It is a performances centric movie

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

This film kills time. The desert did not feel hot. I thought the acting sufficient and the girl was above the rest. We don't care too much about the characters but it is precisely a good point to make us in the skin of witnesses. A witness does not usually know who the bandits or the victims are. Without caring personally, we get to care, especially for the bad guy to get down of course. How to get away form a guy with a gun and an attack dog is the riddle. The pursuit turns comedic toward the end. The film is not too serious. The gun is not quite real and I think it is purposefully done so that people with guns don't think the killer to be smart.

People trying to reach the United States are shot dead by Sam (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) a pure racist and he is helped by his dog Tracker. Why would anyone make a movie like this? Why would anyone want to star in a movie like this? It is basically someone shooting fish in a barrel, but the fish are human beings looking for a better life. Say what you like about illegals coming to the United States, but this story is way over the top. Yes, there is a cat and mouse aspect to all this, but this doesn't make it right. Yes, why would anyone even watch a movie like this? I only watched to be sure that Sam got his in the end as we had the feeling that Moises (Gael Garcia Bernal) would find a way to end Sam.Don't talk to me about production values, the acting, the cinematography, this is just wrong and it should not have been made. (1/10)Violence: Yes. Sex: No. Nudity: No. Language: Yes and in sub-titles too.

Desierto is a top notch thriller for a foreign language film that delivers on the intensity with a base pumping music score. From the director Jonas Cuaron (Alfonso Cuaron's son) is starting to take up the reigns in making a thriller film like how his father did to 2013's Gravity. Desierto is about Mexican immigrants crossing the border to start a new opportunity for a better life. Moises (Gael Garcia Bernal) is traveling with a group; he is looking to cross the border illegally to go home back to his son. As they travel across the desert terrain. They are all hunted by a sniper toting man named Sam (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). With Sam on their trail, as he snipes and hunts them down one by one. It is a matter of survival with Moises and another immigrant Adela (Alondra Hidalgo) who also is trying to seek a better life in America. The plot is basically straightforward and plays out as a survival adventure as these characters are trying to survive a vigilante. Besides the scorching hot heat, dehydration, and rough terrain. They have to avoid being caught by Sam and his hunting dog, Tracker. The film does have plenty of thrills, that put you on the edge. As these characters try to avoid being sniped. Or trying to stay ahead of the trail away from Sam. Cuaron does have a good use with their music composer score Woodkid. Which delivered on the score. Also, some good performances with Gael Garcia Bernal, and Alondra Hidalgo. And Jeffrey Dean Morgan was also good and menacing as an alcoholic vigilante. The film is fast paced with a thrilling chase of cat and mouse in a desert setting. Sure, characters do have that cliché of not making smart choices as in having opportunities to trip or push the bad guy off the cliff as he climbs up it. The film does struggle with weak flat characters in the script. Yes, a group of immigrants, which we only need to know about two of them. As you can tell, the rest will be picked off quickly. The two we do learn, the characters are written in a flat dimension that it was still difficult to care for them. Moises, we learn that he was accidentally deported back to Mexico, separated from his son that lives in the U.S. He made a promise that he would come back and holding on to his son's stuffed animal toy. Adela, we learn her parents wanted her to live in America to start a better life. We learn very briefly with these characters, and still have a little emotional feeling towards them. Otherwise, Desierto is an effectively good thriller film that has worthy performances; intense cat and mouse hunt chases, and a decent characterization. I would give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Even if viewers aren't familiar with the short story or movie "The Most Dangerous Game" - both of which started this basic plot - it's without doubt that they will have watched this basic plot many times before this particular rehash. So how does it compare to other tellings? Well, I admit that I wasn't bored at any time, and there are some parts of the movie that do have some tension and excitement. But at the same time, I got the feeling that the filmmakers weren't going all out to deliver some serious punch. The first twenty minutes or so are kind of soft in tone, and even when the bullets start to fly and people start to be pursued, some edge seems to be missing a lot of the time.A bigger problem is when it comes to character development. We don't really learn a thing about the antagonist apart from the fact that he loves his dog. We never learn why he's turned into a killer vigilante. When it comes to the main protagonist, we don't learn that much more. He has one (somewhat brief) monologue where he shares some of his background to another character... and that's it.As I said, I wasn't BORED with this particular retelling, and it's fairly well made for what was a low budget. But in the end, it's only an average take on this old formula. Better than some, yes. But there are also a lot better rehashes out there.