Review of Held Up

Held Up (1999)
6/10
an American slapstick with a lot of racial and social reference
14 September 2005
This movie is a comedy but not for chunk eaters. It tells a typical story of a gang band robbery by a group of Hispanic's in a deserted land store somewhere before the borders with Mexico.At the beginning of the move the Hispanic's kidnap an African-American, some weirdos and the store owner. The local authorities are totally incapable of managing the situation (hostage) and the funny thing is that, when the local sheriff calls for help, help cant find its way to the small deserted village where the story unfolds. This is to show how central governments neglect near border or small cities in USA. Many other examples of USA government, social and racial mockery through the movie, always funny. I didn't like the end. It was so typical that it didn't fit to a movie like this one, a sort of "political" slapstick comedy.
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