“Non Negotiable” is a Mexican thriller movie starring Mauricio Ochmann, Leonardo Ortizgris and Tato Alexander.
“Non Negotiable” is a fun Mexican movie that skillfully mixes thriller with comedy, with a lot of comedy. Corrupt politicians who are kidnapped give a lot of play, especially if you take life as a joke as Juan Taratuto, the film’s director, does.
Without changing your life or offering you great truths, “Non Negotiable” entertains and, above all, it will make you smile with that Mexican sense of humor that we love.
Plot
The President is kidnapped and everything revolves around a negotiator, a compulsive liar who will have to solve a personal problem: his wife has also been kidnapped.
The kidnapper asks for money, but not for himself, but for institutions, hospitals and health centers. The kidnapper is, apparently, a vigilante who denounces the corruption of the President.
About the movie
Very funny, especially if you like that ironic and intelligent sense of humor that knows how to laugh at everything. A movie based on an entertaining premise, good dialogues and a great actor named Mauricio Ochmann, who knows how to carry the movie.
An actor’s movie in which everyone is good thanks, above all, to the dialogues: Leonardo Ortizgris, Tato Alexander and Enoc Leaño playing the corrupt President.
A comedy that takes place in a single night and during a kidnapping: there are no big chases or shocking action sequences, the film has no blockbuster aspirations and is content to entertain, amuse and, incidentally, record that, whichever way you look at it, you find a corrupt politician.
There are a couple of sequences with which you will not be able to stop laughing, although the film leads us more to smile than to laugh: it is Mexico laughing at Mexicans and with that self-conscious, ironic and intelligent sense that we like so much.
Our opinion
A simple, simple but effective film that knows how to laugh at everything and take this thriller in a relaxed and friendly way.
Good performances for a film that, even if it is not going to change anything, leaves its small footprint to make us smile on this Friday.
Enjoy it.