El Infierno
Benny gets extradited from US, and he returns to his country Mexico. He finds difficulty in acquiring a true job, as the majority is immersed in drug trafficking business. He follows suit and dives into the narco business where he immediately encounters wealth, women and brutality. Gradually he discovers that this life is not as easy as it may seem.
7 January 1922, Huatabampo, Sonora, Mexico
7 November 1933, Veracruz, Veracruz, Mexico
22 February 1994, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
5 November 1939, Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico
1962, Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico
15 May 1961, Madrid, Spain
March 16, 2012
The film flips quickly from funny and slow to extreme violence, but in the end it's plenty entertaining.
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.
February 23, 2012
A master at sustaining his characters' likability even under grotesque circumstances, Estrada maintains an absurdist irony throughout.

