Kai (Gael Garcia Bernal), a recondite man who utters almost as many lines of dialog as there are letters in his name, comes to the aid of a farmer and his family up against a gang of conscienceless varmints. This standard western scenario was enough to sustain dozens of features and even more hours of episodic television. With only seven films to his credit, Sergio Leone invented a language of cinema uniquely his own. At times too dank and glowering to do the master justice, writer-director Pablo Fendrik’s third feature still does a commendable job of visually acknowledging its mentor. The film misses the mark as a drama — credit comatose pacing and a methodized deployment of its Argentinean rainforest backdrop as a stand-in for Monument Valley, AZ — only to resolve with a customary shootout on the streets of Dodge. With Alice Braga and Chico Díaz. (2015) — Scott Marks
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