600 Miles
The film follows Arnulfo, a weapons smuggler for a Mexican cartel, who kidnaps an ATF agent. Arnulfo takes him to his bosses, however, during the 600-miles-long drive, they slowly befriend.
March 18, 1974 in Tucson, Arizona, USA
14 May 1961, London, England, UK
11 May 1964, Ramsbottom, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
May 10, 2016
A noteworthy exercise in style, with longshots that involve the spectator with the events on screen and a clear example that a long running time isn't necessary to explore characters efficiently. [Full review in Spanish]
December 09, 2015
600 Miles doesn't generate the level of nail-biting suspense one expects here, languishing in lengthy driving scenes and other bits of mundane storytelling.
July 20, 2016
The films starts and ends with two powerful sequences. Gabriel Ripstein bleeds cinema. [Full review in Spanish]
May 10, 2016
Following the tropes of a road movie, the story opens up to explore the main characters on their trip for survival, blood, and death. [Full review in Spanish]
July 15, 2016
A Mexican road movie that feels like a Belgian thriller. [Full review in Spanish]
December 09, 2015
Ripstein allows long stretches to go by in near-silence, gradually letting the tension build as the SUV travels farther south, deeper into potentially dangerous territory.
October 06, 2016
A film that constantly questions several issues like law, arm trafficking and a greater evil: the ease of getting them in the United States. [Full review in Spanish]
May 30, 2016
A heartbreaking portrait of arms trafficking in the Mexico/US border. [Full review in Spanish]
May 06, 2016
A road movie that goes through all the tropes of the genre but also makes an incisive cocial commentary. [Full review in Spanish]
July 20, 2016
A movie as unsettling as it is deep. [Full review in Spanish]
May 10, 2016
Ripstein avoids using stereotypes when creating his characters, even when using the most feared one in Mexico right now: Narcos. [Full review in Spanish]
October 04, 2016
600 Miles plays with the viewers expectations just to reminds us that arms trafficking isn't heroic or epic, and that violence is born because of the inequities of the capitalist system in the United States. [Full review in Spanish]
