Baja

The first 9 reviews and a rating of 7,2 is in. All a LIE people, not 1 reviewer wrote a critic about another movie. It is a very low budget movie with bad actors and failed comedy, this is a one man's project. I didn't even make the 20 min. mark where I usually decide to watch a movie further, it was torture. The dialogue and the behaviour of the characters made me nervous. And also there was too much shaking with the camera. This ain't even cheap entertainment, this movie is just all the way cheap and bad. No fun on this road trip, I even didn't make it to the resort.

I really liked Baja. I've spent plenty of time wandering down thru Mexico, without knowing exactly why. It's a magical, mysterious, and beautiful place. If you look up the history of cinema, in fact, proximity to Mexico (and distance from Edison) was one of the key reasons why the film industry settled in Hollywood to begin with. The Cal-Mex connection has been alive and well for at least a century, and that is very clear in Baja. I get it, I appreciate it, I value it.

Sure, there were plenty of cheesy moments in the film -- which is why I didn't give it an even higher rating. But that didn't bother me so much. I loved the passion and spontaneity and the magic realism of the trip. Oh yea, and plenty of laughs along the way, too. Well done!

What a fun movie. Beautiful scenery and great cast! Boy what a road trip! I now know where my next road trip will be.

We screened this title with pretty low expectations, but we're great fans of the Baja California peninsula, so we hoped that we'd at least get to see some great scenery and maybe some familiar places. This film, however, only served to remind us that good movies are hard to make. There was nothing overtly terrible about this effort (well, the "special effects" surfing scenes and the ferry sinking with the RV aboard -- not a spoiler, btw, as this scene is in the trailer -- were so terrible you had to wonder whether the filmmaker realized they were laughable), but when you take a B-minus story (the story had potential, sadly unrealized here), C-plus acting (the cast has talent, I fault the director for not eliciting better performances), C-minus screenplay (oh! the dialogue! the cliches! the cultural condescension! the tedious expository moments!), D-plus digital color grading (a heavy-handed directorial indulgence that should have been totally unnecessary) on top of the aforementioned failed effects, you get a D-minus-minus movie. The whole turned out to be MUCH less than the sum of its parts. And the lure of a vicarious road trip down the peninsula? Sorry, no dice here, either, as the movie was almost completely shot in and around a modern development in Loreto, standing in for scenes as disparate as the old city of La Paz and the Los Cabos International airport. Oh, I should add that the music was pretty good -- and while none of it stuck with me the next day, it was maybe the best part of the movie! Better Baja movies abound. Dial up the desert-racing documentary DUST TO GLORY, or the Spanish-language dramedy CAMINO A MARTES, just to name two. Let this one dry in the desert dust and never waste anyone's time again.

Checked this movie out on a lark while it was in theaters and was really pleasantly surprised. Really fun little indie road trip comedy that covers all the bases (comedy, romance, suspense, drama). It's even got one of my favorite actors in it Mark Margolis (Hector Salamanca from Breaking Bad!).

If you're looking for a fun, feel good comedy that will draw you into its story and give you something a little more meaningful than your average comedy, this is definitely worth checking out. The entire cast is really solid and there are a ton of really fun supporting characters that pop in and out of the story. To top it off, the story and themes go a little deeper than you would expect on first glance and really stay with you.

Basically, there's no way you're going to come out of this movie not feeling better than when you went in. Highly recommend for a weekend afternoon flick or a good date night movie.