Alien at the Movies

Dark Blood

After being imprisoned for a brutal revenge crime, Misael (John Leguizamo) suffers from terrible abuse from the guards as well as from the other prisoners. The living conditions in what appears to be a Mexican prison are horrible. The dialogue spoken is in Spanish with English subtitles. As the days pass, Misael’s situation goes from bad to worse. He seems to only have 2 allies in there, an old man & a dog. All he wants is to see his son & explain what had happened. Leguizamo is excellent as the tortured & desperate man. However, abuse & living conditions may be hard to watch. At the very end, there is a surprising twist that caught me off guard.

Alien gives 2½ “one minute phone calls” stars out of 4.