This slick, serious-minded tale of upper-crust vigilantes protecting their gated community at any cost is a nihilistic but thoughtful portrait of a country divided .
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10/17/08
La Zona (2007)
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Reviews Counted:19
Fresh:15
Rotten:4
Average Rating:6.7/10
Consensus: A slick and smart Mexican thriller of middle-class panic and vigilantism, that is lean, mean and often shocking.
Theatrical Release:17-10-2008
Reviews for La Zona
1 - 19 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticLatin American middle-class panic needs no translation in this strong thriller about the worries of the wealthy. Fans of JG Ballard's novels will relish it.
10/17/08
Top CriticThe viral atmosphere of intimidation is alarming, and thick with resonant premonitions of a legion of dystopian urban tomorrows.
10/17/08
Top CriticA smart movie, dramatically lean and mean, exciting and often shocking.
10/17/08
Top CriticDark, compelling, and with the courage of its hard-nosed convictions, La Zona starts off gripping and squeezes like a vice come the disturbing conclusion.
10/17/08
Director Rodrigo Plá pulls off a biting critique of middle-classes living in smug seclusion, but doesn’t compromise on tension as the suburbanites’ morals spiral out of control.
10/17/08
A Mexican thriller-with- a-message, brings the message and forgets the thrills.
10/17/08
The screenwriter, Laura Santullo, is slightly heavy-handed at times, but she expertly captures the mood of paranoia and self-righteousness gripping this middle-class enclave.
10/17/08
This is a well-made realist study of what happens when society is divided between rich and poor. But it is also so schematic that some of its power drains away.
10/17/08
Gripping thriller with strong performances and a script that is both chilling and scarily prescient.
10/17/08
Un excelente thriller dramático, narrado con precisión y buen elenco, que es sobre todo una inquietante reflexión sobre uno de los temas más candentes y polémicos de nuestro tiempo.
08/25/09
Sacrifica o que poderia se tornar um forte comentário político em função da absoluta falta de sutileza com que desenvolve a narrativa.
05/01/08
Some may sniff at director Rodrigo Plá’s deliberately exaggerated style, but it makes no pretensions to authenticity. Indeed, it’s just audacious enough to work -- like Crash reimagined by Rod Serling.
03/24/08
An explosive Mexican drama depicting how the poor are being given the shaft in a class war that is raging around the world as the privilges of the rich and the powerful are protected.
03/22/08
If the insult of La Zona is not as significant as Paul Haggis's Crash, that's because director Rodrigo Plá doesn't trivialize a society's racial dynamics, only its class relations.
03/13/08
a complex, ambitious anatomisation of the workings of justice in a deeply iniquitous world
03/10/08
...a slow-moving drama...
10/16/07
Signals another promising discovery in a film industry that is definitely coming into its own golden age.
09/18/07
Top CriticAn impressive feature debut that sweeps the viewer into the horrors of vigilante justice
09/05/07
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