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For anyone that's been to Puerto Rico, the shots of Old San Juan are enough to put a smile on your face, and its a plus that non-Latinos will have more exposure to Spanish rap and reggaeton via the movie's score. While Reyes could have done better with the all too familiar "stern girlfriend's dad" and "simple local guy who knows everything" roles, he does score points with a few multidimensional characters. While the plot itself is average at best, there's enough of a surprise twist towards the conclusion to make the story interesting.
The verdict: Illegal Tender lacks the gritty feel of hood classics like Juice, but its definitely not your average straight to video urban flick. What the movie lacks in quality dialogue, it makes up for in visuals and a few laugh out loud moments. It's worth being checked out in theaters by Latinos, who will appreciate a realistic-looking Caribbean cast, but who may also roll their eyes at the occasional oversimplification of Puerto Rican culture and women. I can't shake the feeling that the film was green lighted on the strength of Latinos being all but guaranteed to cop the DVD. But I also believe that Franc Reyes was trying to honestly illustrate the power of love between Latinos and their family, and the lengths that they will go to in the name of preservation or redemption. watch Illegal online
Odds are if the low-budget Anna Nicole Smith vehicle Illegal Aliens (MTI Video) had been made two years ago, it would've shot immediately into direct-to-video limbo (much like the 1997 action dud Skyscraper). That the cut-rate sci-fi comedy is being released not long after the actress' death and subsequent news ascendance is an accident of timing: it guarantees that the flick will receive more attention, but whether that proves a good thing for any of the surviving cast's careers is an entirely different matter.
A rickety blend of Charlie's Angels (each of the flick's three heroines are given the name of one of the movie version's actresses) and Men in Black, Aliens follows three intergalactic shape-shifting policewoman (Smith, Gladise Jiminez, and Lenise Sorn) assigned to the planet Earth to thwart intergalactic evildoers. We first meet our trio as their alien bodies fly through space toward our planet; the ANS alien has chosen the body of a pig so she can comically squeal,
"I'm a Pig in Space!" (That's the quality of the jokes, folks!) But once they land in a crater in New York City, our heroines all take on the form of shapely babes because, as the narrator helpfully explains, "Really hot chicks have it easy!" The threesome moves to Hollywood where they work as stuntwomen between assignments until a fourth alien shows up on Earth with plans to demolish the joint. watch Illegal online
