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To go and say that this movie was a love story is being ethereal to the most delicate degree. This movie was many things as it unfolds with a rich sense of captivity. Taking the viewer on a ride that only a Puerto Rican can plot out (The cast is enriched with Puerto Ricans). It took a few deep breaths to fully digest the amount of dissonant dialogue, by all means it was bearable but at times it was shocking. No one can write this type of storytelling. Obviously Carlito Ruiz Ruiz got it right with precision. The film explores love on it's most obverse levels, by exploring love throughout age, rage, immense tragedy, psychosis, and of course humor. These different palettes create an exuberant amount of depth, body, and twisted sense of the word. It is definitely a family oriented film with so many references to Puerto Rican culture that you just want to throw some 'chanclas' on and hit the 'playa'. The themes of ancestry are doused with gasoline and set ablaze with trepidation. You feel what it's like to a part of the inner circle. The problematic circle is not that love is reciprocal but that the action exists and we cannot coexist if that understanding is discernible. A true gem amongst Latin gems. I hold this film in high accord with Innaritu's masterpieces.

El Evangelista was an entirely independent movie with Latin accents. It unveils a vivid and divided world of brutal crimes and religious apathy. The cinematography is a bit tonal by sequencing urban landscapes and few countrysides. It almost moves like a sitcom instead of a movie. The leading cast capture dialogue reminiscent of "Pulp Fiction" with equal subject matter and flying pundits. The comedic hijinks range from the classic down to the outright childish (fart jokes). Some of the other supporting cast lack passion in their roles. The film in general provides dramatic overtones in the style of Latin soap operas with a score from similar scenes in "Scarface " (Remember when Tony shot Manolo?) not to be comparatively vague but just to state the obvious. The main characters are faced with harsh dilemmas and no where to turn to. The movie heats up in brutal action and acts as social clauses for us to embody in everyday reasoning. I highly recommend this Latin film, because of the accolades it won (Winner"Audience Choice Award"2006 Chicago Latino Film Festival Winner"Best Foreign Feature"2006 WYSIWYG Film Festival Official Selection 2007 New York International Latino Film Festival) and because it was a memorable tale of the two sides of crime and the how the loyalty one possesses, battles the conscience.