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While the real-life events that inspired it are certainly intriguing enough, the ambitious "No Turning Back", a well-intentioned study of illegal immigration and its various social ramifications ultimately trips over a tangle of clunky scripting.
Co-directed and co-written by Jesus Nebot and Julia Montejo, the drama is set up with a back story that would have made an interesting film in its own right: When Hurricane Mitch claims his wife and his Honduras home, an English literature professor (Nebot) illegally immigrates to California in the hope of a better future for his young daughter, Cristina (Chelsea Rendon).
But that American Dream is shattered the day a little girl runs into the path of a borrowed pickup truck driven by Pablo.
With no papers and no driver's license, he panics and subsequently finds himself wanted in the girl's hit-and-run death. To further complicate matters, a renegade journalist (Lindsay Price) finds him before the police do and is willing to keep quiet as long as he consents to letting her film his every move for a documentary.
At this point, the film shifts into conventional cat-and-mouse gear as a tough police detective (Vernee Watson Johnson) is hot on the fugitive's heels.
Although the story hits a number of major plausibility snags, Nebot and Motejo deserve credit for attempting to give their man-on-the-run story a pertinent social context, while Nebot's performance goes quite a distance on conviction alone.
While the real-life events that inspired it are certainly intriguing enough, the ambitious "No Turning Back", a well-intentioned study of illegal immigration and its various social ramifications ultimately trips over a tangle of clunky scripting.
Co-directed and co-written by Jesus Nebot and Julia Montejo, the drama is set up with a back story that would have made an interesting film in its own right: When Hurricane Mitch claims his wife and his Honduras home, an English literature professor (Nebot) illegally immigrates to California in the hope of a better future for his young daughter, Cristina (Chelsea Rendon).
But that American Dream is shattered the day a little girl runs into the path of a borrowed pickup truck driven by Pablo.
With no papers and no driver's license, he panics and subsequently finds himself wanted in the girl's hit-and-run death. To further complicate matters, a renegade journalist (Lindsay Price) finds him before the police do and is willing to keep quiet as long as he consents to letting her film his every move for a documentary.
At this point, the film shifts into conventional cat-and-mouse gear as a tough police detective (Vernee Watson Johnson) is hot on the fugitive's heels.
Although the story hits a number of major plausibility snags, Nebot and Motejo deserve credit for attempting to give their man-on-the-run story a pertinent social context, while Nebot's performance goes quite a distance on conviction alone.
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