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DirectorEduardo Rodriguez ScreenplayJonathan W. Stokes CountryUnited States
Release dateMay 11, 2012 (2012-05-11) WriterJonathan W. Stokes (screenplay) ProducersCourtney Solomon, Katerina Slantcheva CastScott Adkins (The Man), Yvette Yates (Anna), Christian Slater (Lieutenant West), Israel Islas (Culebra), Erando González (Chief Espinoza), Sofía Sisniega (Flaca) Similar moviesMad Max: Fury Road, The Canyons, Blackhat, The Hunting Party, Knock Knock, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire TaglineHe's not in Acapulco any more.
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El Gringo (Bad Yankee) is a 2012 American action thriller film directed by Eduardo Rodríguez, produced by After Dark Films, written by Jonathan Stokes, and starring Scott Adkins, Christian Slater and Yvette Yates.
Following an ambush in which he is wounded, and his undercover DEA partners are killed, The Man escapes into Mexico with a case holding two million dollars, and arrives in the dusty town of El Fronteras. He faces danger from the local sheriff and his thugs, a local drug cartel, his checkered past and his former DEA boss.
Partial cast
Scott Adkins as The Man
Yvette Yates as Anna
Christian Slater as Lieutenant West
Zachary Baharov as Officer Bell
Israel Islas as Culebra
Erando González as Chief Espinoza
Sofía Sisniega as Flaca
Valentin Ganev as Deputy Chief Logan
Velislav Pavlov as Officer Dunn
Bashar Rahal as Officer Sullivan
Atanas Srebrev as Rick
Michail Elenov as Pablo
Production
The screenplay by Jonathan Stokes was purchased by After Dark Films in 2011 for Joel Silver to executive produce.
The film was shot in Bulgaria and Louisiana at an estimated cost of US$7 million.
Release
The film was released in the United States to theatres on May 11, 2012, with an MPAA "R" rating. As part of the "After Dark Action" bundle, the film showed for one week in ten cities, and was simultaneously released for video on demand.
Reception
The film received mildly warm reviews. Variety described it as "an undeniable exercise in third-hand coolness, with nods to spaghetti Westerns and '70s drive-in actioners, El Gringo is diverting enough", continuing, "willfully over-the-top action and character types are fun if never quite as giddily distinctive as hoped for." The Los Angeles Times summarized, "not bad exactly, but it's not especially notable either." IndieWire noted that the film's "colorful character[s] [...] don't really get much to do to emphasize their identities amidst the action", adding, "El Gringo gets bogged down in overly-plotty nonsense, but the fight choreography and shootouts are fast-paced and inventive, allowing the film to come alive in spite of its time-wasting peripherals", giving the film a "B-".