Arau is crazy. If just based on the cast was enough to cause goose bumps out of fright, to the cavalcade of so called actors adds an insane plot that goes nowhere. This film tries to enhance the patriot feeling the caudillo from Morelos wore proudly, but in the end is pretentious, with bad structure and an even worst labor from the actors. The plot is incoherent even to its "magixc realism" standards, with nahuales (beings half animal half human from the ancient cultures), prehispanic references, some nuts theories and even a Zapata with more care for "fashion" than revolution itself (he's played by a popular Mexican singer); if at least this movie was entertaining all those things won't even matter, but is not, and to make it worse it has a rush feeling, as if Arau was in a hurry to end it. You can tell by the people involved that it has a doom fate, but you just can't imagine how much.
Review of Zapata - El sueño del héroe
