In California the former Navy SEAL Chon and his best friend the peaceful botanist Ben are successful entrepreneurs producing and dealing high-quality weed. Chon brought seeds from Afghanistan and Ben used his knowledge to develop the best marijuana in the country. Chon and Ben share the pothead lover Ophelia and she loves both of them since they complete each other - Chon is a powerful and strong lover and Ben is a sensible and loving lover. Their comfortable life changes when the Mexican Baja Cartel demands a partnership in their business. Chon and Ben refuse the deal and the leader of the cartel Elena sends her right-arm in America Lado to abduct Ophelia to press the American drug dealers. Chon and Ben ask the support of the dirty DEA Agent Dennis and get inside information to begin a secret war against the Baja Cartel to release Ophelia.
Review
The story line is inventive. It even contains novelty value. The sound track is as good as the cinematography and the director and crew do all they can. So why does this film suck Well the script is too often banal so banal the poorly casted leads just don't appear to know what they are doing. Occasionally the editing is poor so the storyline doesn't move along as it should and so we get some narrative which is frankly diabolical. Oh and the voicing of it makes it frighteningly awful.
The three main characters in this film O. Ben and Chon are not acted they are the actors pocketing a large amount of money for doing absolutely nothing. They probably don't ever understand what is going on except for when they are being out acted in huge distances by some of the real actors in the film. Can the leads actually act
Meanwhile the script is full of the most awful touches of "obvious" even when the real actors make the words unnecessary. Subtle and intelligent are not things the script contains which is a pity because the story is worthy of better.
The film is supposed to have a nasty streak Savages get it but it is just too unpleasant to be nasty except when actors are acting nasty and you have to be able to act to do that and Lado (Del Toro) Dennis (Travolta) and Lena (Hayek) manage it pretty well. In the meantime the leads kind of change clothes or something to make it look like they are doing something different but they cannot act! So why were the feckless threesome leads let anywhere near it. Perhaps the producers could make a film about that instead.
Interesting for the real actors but spoilt by the rest.