Movie Review: GRINGO

   GRINGO tells the story of a good man named Harold (played well by David Oyelowo) who gets taken advantage of by everyone around him. His best friend and boss (one of my favorite actors working today-Joel Edgerton) Richard, uses Harold for his own interests and business gains. Richard is a real creep. He's a lying,cheating thieving excuse for a man. His partner in crime and business is Elaine (Charlize Theron), who is an equally unlikable person. Together or separately, Richard and Elaine screw over everyone around, especially poor Harold. I'll leave out all the details and just tell you that Richard and Elaine run a pharmaceutical company and have made some bad deals with the mexican Drug cartel. They use an unwitting Harold to do their dirty work. But when Harold finally catches on to their shenanigans, he learns to finally stand up for himself. But he finds himself neck deep with the Mexican Drug Cartel and other untrustworthy people, or are they?
 That is the fun of GRINGO-roooting for Harold to hopefully pull off his own double cross and stick it to the people who could care less about him.
  The cast, led by Oyelowo, Theron and Edgerton, deliver good performances given a  good script written by Anthony Tambakis and Matthew Stone with solid direction by Joel Edgerton's brother, Nash Edgerton. The film is rated R for strong language and violence.
 I give GRINGO a watchable B-.