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I bought Ladron Que Roba A Ladron more or less on a whim. I got it because I saw an advertisement on 3:10 to Yuma and decided to pick it up.

It's pretty good, but not great. Scale back Ocean's Eleven so that it's one guy being robbed, drop the number of participants for 11 to 7 or 8, give it the budget that O11 had for Brad Pitt's hairdresser, and cast a Spanish speaking cast and you'll start to get the idea of what to expect. The hook is that this that they intend to rob the guy by posing as immigrant workers because no one ever pays any attention to them. The movie actually hammers this point a lot less than you'd think, because there isn't much time. The movie is only 100 minutes and they keep the pace moving at a pretty good clip.

What really cemented the Ocean's Eleven thing though is that the guy the heroes are robbing is played by a guy called Saúl Lisazo, who looks like a Latin George Cloney. I mean it's right down to the same hair cut.

As a comedy, as this is primarily a comedy, it works pretty well. I have the basic 5 words of Spanish that most Americans can manage so I had to read the subtitles, which probably means I missed a lot of the humor, but I still managed.

Also I watched most of The Public Enemy, but I was very tired and had to switch it off to go to bed. I'll finish it later today.