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Lackluster acting and a ridiculous plot make the over-the-top Illegal Tender an unrealistic bust.
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An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus. Dec 12, 2007
An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.
Michael Rechtshaffen
More care seems to have been taken with the cut of Gonzalez's sideburns than with the shape of the story, and the hyperbolic soundtrack does most of the work of the mise en scene. Dec 3, 2007 | Full Review…
More care seems to have been taken with the cut of Gonzalez's sideburns than with the shape of the story, and the hyperbolic soundtrack does most of the work of the mise en scene.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
What in God's name was going on with this movie? Aug 27, 2007
What in God's name was going on with this movie?
Richard Roeper
For a film about growing up, Illegal Tender loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia. Aug 25, 2007 | Rating: C-
For a film about growing up, Illegal Tender loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia.
Scott Tobias
Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content. Aug 24, 2007 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content.
Walter V. Addiego
Illegal Tender isn't quite the mess you expect this time of year, a film that achieves a certain level of originality by reversing gender roles. Aug 24, 2007 | Rating: 2.5/4
Illegal Tender isn't quite the mess you expect this time of year, a film that achieves a certain level of originality by reversing gender roles.
Lisa Rose
Clearly aware of the impact of visual style on the narrative, Jonathan Ogilvie uses a stylised 1920 Australian setting for a love triangle that involves all the basic drivers of human frailty Sep 13, 2008 | Full Review…
Clearly aware of the impact of visual style on the narrative, Jonathan Ogilvie uses a stylised 1920 Australian setting for a love triangle that involves all the basic drivers of human frailty
Andrew L. Urban
This is a story that sizzles with its themes of corruption, infidelity, racism and power. But there's a vital flaw ... Sep 13, 2008 | Full Review…
This is a story that sizzles with its themes of corruption, infidelity, racism and power. But there's a vital flaw ...
Louise Keller
There are so many chances for Illegal Tender to get things right that it's depressing to realize that it misses all of them. Jan 28, 2008 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
There are so many chances for Illegal Tender to get things right that it's depressing to realize that it misses all of them.
David Cornelius
bland and forgettable. Dec 29, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
bland and forgettable.
David Thomas
Brainless bloodsport, Cholo-style. Dec 17, 2007 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Brainless bloodsport, Cholo-style.
Kam Williams
You know the film is off to a paltry start when you see the rookie Rick Gonzalez attempt to strut bad-boy, awww-yeah stuff. Instead, he feels like a 21-year-old boy just going through puberty. Sep 20, 2007 | Rating: 1.5/5 | Full Review…
You know the film is off to a paltry start when you see the rookie Rick Gonzalez attempt to strut bad-boy, awww-yeah stuff. Instead, he feels like a 21-year-old boy just going through puberty.
Adam Fendelman
Wilson Deleon Jr. (Rick Gonzalez) is the son of a slain drug dealer, whose killers still have every intention of wiping out the rest of the Deleon family 20 plus years later. After his family's location is discovered, Wilson is thrust into a situation in which he must leave his home and adoring girl friend and confront his assailants while learning more about the father he never knew. Wanda De Jesus plays the woman protecting her children who just happens to know how to shoot and will do anything to protect her children. It's finally time to take action and now, they're done running.
Super Reviewer
This movie was interesting...the time span...the past affecting the future...it's all here. Shows the importance of communication between the last generation and this generation regardless of whose in the wrong...family first!
A History of Violence by way of Bronx, with props to Wanda De Jesus.
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