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07/21/05
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Nicotina (2004)
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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:21
Rotten:26
Average Rating:5.6/10
Theatrical Release:Aug 20, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $800,371
Synopsis: From the producers of "Amores Perros" comes "Nicotina", a highly stylized crime caper set in Mexico City about a simple exchange that goes awry, causing the lives of nine unsuspecting characters to... [More]
Starring: Diego Luna, Lucas Crespi, Jesus Ochoa, Rosa Maria Bianchi
Director: Hugo Rodriguez
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10/19/04
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12/06/05
This grisly, comical shaggy-dog thriller from Mexico provides the latest evidence that the international movement we might call Tarantinismo is alive and well.
08/19/04
Top CriticAmusingly diverting at the time of viewing but ultimately as transitory as a wisp of cigarette smoke.
08/20/04
It leaves you with the spectacle of badly mutilated bodies and an unpleasant taste of too much hipster irony -- that was truly hip a decade ago when Tarantino did it right.
08/20/04
An uncertain, but also unboring, neo-noir comedy that has more than its share of gimmicks.
08/07/04
Close enough to Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels to make no difference, Nicotina delivers the predictable in a blur of phone calls, gunshots and lightning-fast editing.
08/07/04
Director Hugo Rodriguez and writer Martin Salinas must have thought they were on a post-Tarantino edge. Their only edge is the razor slicing open the hoodlum.
08/20/04
Skitters between dull and forced, this despite the use of split screens, jaunty music and the personable Luna.
09/24/04
Top CriticThe smoke that powers the film's narrative is a whole lot of hot air.
07/26/04
The significance of this nicotine obsession, except as a clumsy subplot connector, eluded me entirely, as did that of almost everything else that transpires in this self-satisfied, incoherently busy farce.
08/19/04
It feels lightweight and forgettable.
10/08/04
Intricate but curiously drab...for all the cigarettes that are smoked and talked about in the movie, it's resolutely non-addictive.
08/19/04
Nicotina eventually becomes a decent crime thriller, but it's set up in such a weird way, you're probably not going to get through it.
08/17/04
While obviously not a unique or uniquely satisfying experience, the film still does the job in a pinch, and looks cool doing it.
09/10/04
Nicotina feels so comfortably middle-of-the-road...that it makes us ponder the purpose of its very existence and makes the task of reviewing it an absolute redundancy.
09/30/04
We thankfully seem to have exhausted our Tarantino imitators up here, but apparently they're still at work south of the border.
08/23/04
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