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Benny goes back to Mexico after he got deported from US. At first he was struggling to find a decent job but then gets into the most common business of the town, drug trafficking. Even after being drenched in wealth and girls, he learns that this life is not as easy as he thought it would be.
2 November 1959, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
31 May 1968, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
7 November 1933, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
22 February 1994, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
15 August 1943, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
7 January 1922, Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico
27 September 1989, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
13 February 1975, Laredo, Texas, USA
8 January 1953, Jiquilpan, Michoacan, Mexico
14 December 1973
10 December 1958, Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico
5 November 1939, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
1970, Mexico City, Mexico
18 February 1956, Mexico City, Mexico
March 16, 2012
The film flips quickly from funny and slow to extreme violence, but in the end it's plenty entertaining.
February 23, 2012
A master at sustaining his characters' likability even under grotesque circumstances, Estrada maintains an absurdist irony throughout.
March 11, 2015
While the storytelling in El Narco is quite strong on the surface, what impressed me the most was Estrada's ability to weave social commentary into the film.
