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Illegal Tender
Directed by
Franc. Reyes
R
2007
1h 48m
Drama
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5.4
15%
66%
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After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
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Cast of Illegal Tender
Rick Gonzalez
Wilson Jr.
Wanda De Jesus
Millie DeLeon
Dania Ramirez
Ana
Delilah Cotto
Jessenia
Manny Perez
Wilson DeLeon Sr.
Gary Perez
Javier Cordero
Tego Calderon
Choco
Virginia Romero
Julie Carmen
Nilsa
Carmen Gloria Pérez
Latina Killer #2
Mercedes Mercado
Latina Killer #1
D.C. Benny
Ceasar
Angelic Zambrana
Young Jessenia
Jessica Pimentel
Young Millie
Zulay Henao
Mora
Michael Philip Del Rio
Lugo
Franc. Reyes
Director / Writer
John Singleton
Producer
Illegal Tender Ratings & Reviews
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
An entertaining genre piece boasting a terrifically sinewy lead performance from Wanda De Jesus.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
More care seems to have been taken with the cut of Gonzalez's sideburns than with the shape of the story, and the hyperbolic soundtrack does most of the work of the mise en scene.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Unlike Black Snake Moan, Illegal Tender never transcends its cliches.
Ebert & Roeper
Richard Roeper
What in God's name was going on with this movie?
AV Club
Scott Tobias
For a film about growing up, Illegal Tender loses itself in a lot of silly juvenilia.
San Francisco Chronicle
Walter V. Addiego
Plenty of movies have combined a blazing-guns revenge story with a family dynamics drama, but Illegal Tender never gets the mixture right, lurching between bullet-happy shootouts and overwrought domestic content.
New York Post
Kyle Smith
The real mystery here is why this slapdash semi-effort didn't go straight to video.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
While Illegal Tender has misguided pretensions towards Serious Filmmaking, it's surprisingly likeable if you see it instead as a cheesy thriller good for a lazy Friday night.
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
It wants to be Scarface but makes The Pacifier look plausible by comparison. (Do real bodyguards hold their guns sideways?)
Detroit News
Tom Long
There's supposed to be an underlying message here about the value of family and giving up the bad life for respectability, but writer-director Franc Reyes is really just using it as an excuse for a standard (at best) gangland shoot-'em-up.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
A cohesive story is an afterthought in yet another gangster movie that pretends to denounce violence and materialism while so obviously reveling in it.
Chicago Tribune
Tasha Robinson
Potentially compelling questions of ethnicity, privilege and societal inequities lurk in the background, but instead of addressing them, the film flounders in melodrama.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Illegal Tender has the potential to be a better film than it is.
Associated Press
Christy Lemire
It's helpful if you walk in with the expectation that it is a genre picture -- not a parody, not camp, but a loving homage to gangster movies of the 1980s like Scarface.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
A solid meat-and-potatoes B-movie with enough personality to spin it in unexpected directions.
Cinematical
Nick Schager
Grace is not the film's strong suit. But trashy -- albeit sporadic -- fun is.
Movie Mom
Nell Minow
It is fun to see Wanda de Jesus get all Pam Grier and shoot off two big guns at once after making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich for her son. But the big dumb story and the big dumb dialogue keep getting in the way.
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
A throwback to 1970s blaxploitation flicks, with a Latin accent, Illegal Tender would be a brassy, sassy guilty pleasure if it were more, well, pleasurable.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
This second-rate action drama features a mostly Latino but mostly wasted cast.
Variety
Joe Leydon
Pic is too muted to have much lasting impact, and remains modestly diverting only on a scene-to-scene basis.
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You Will Defend Yourself
You Will Defend Yourself
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Who Do You Think You Are?
Who Do You Think You Are?
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You Don't Have To Do This
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Where Did You Get The Gun?
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Son, Let Me Ask You Something
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