Illegal Tender R
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DVD Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 1 hours, 48 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: December 18, 2007
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Wanda De Jesus, Rick Gonzalez & Dania Ramirez | |
Performer: | Tego Calderon, Manny Perez, Gary Perez & Manny Perez | |
Directed by | Franc. Reyes | |
Screenwriting by | Franc. Reyes | |
Composition by | Heitor Pereira | |
Produced by | John Singleton | |
Director of Photography: | Frank Byers |
Entertainment Reviews:
This is a story that sizzles with its themes of corruption, infidelity, racism and power. But there's a vital flaw ...
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Urban Cinefile
Rating: 2/4 --
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.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Rating: 1.5/5 --
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.
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HollywoodChicago.com
What in God's name was going on with this movie?
Ebert & Roeper
Rating: 1/4 --
Brainless bloodsport, Cholo-style.
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NewsBlaze
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.
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Chicago Reader
An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.
Hollywood Reporter
Product Description:
ILLEGAL TENDER opens in the Bronx in 1985, with slick drug dealer Wilson DeLeon (Manny Perez) looking for one more big score before settling down with his pregnant wife, Millie (Jessica Pimentel). But things go awry, and the gang led by Javier Cordero (Gary Perez) goes after Millie as well. Twenty-two years later, Millie (now played by Wanda De Jesus) is living in a wealthy suburban neighborhood with her older son, 4.0 college student Wilson Jr. (Rick Gonzalez), and younger son, the endearingly precocious Randy (Antonio Ortiz). When she spots a member of Javier's gang, she's out on the run again--but Wilson refuses to go, instead staying home with his girlfriend, Ana (Dania Ramirez), not willing to believe anyone is in any real danger. Although he doesn't want to get involved, Wilson is soon caught up in a gunfight, finding himself in the middle of a two-decade-old score that seemingly can be settled only with bloodshed. Written and directed by Franc. Reyes (EMPIRE) and produced by John Singleton (BOYZ N THE HOOD), ILLEGAL TENDER is a gripping drama about family, revenge, and honor. The outstanding cast is headed by De Jesus in a career-defining performance, with fine support from Gonzalez and Ramirez and comic relief from Ortiz. The soundtrack features songs by Willie Colon, Don Omar, Manny Loco, Tafari, and reggaeton star Tego Calderon, who also appears in the film as Choco, Javier's right-hand man in Puerto Rico.