What has more masked participants than an Eyes Wide Shut Halloween orgy? Lucha libre! Directors Alex Hammond and Ian Markiewicz play up the local color, moving from arena to arena in pursuit of today’s biggest names in the CMLL, Mexico’s World Wrestling Council. (The last half hour of my life was spent “researching” KeMonito, a midget mascot in a cheap blue monkey suit — think “Made in China” animatronic Ewok — who gets beat on like a ragdoll at baby’s first birthday party.) Instead of recycled video montages of scripted matchups that enthusiasts have long committed to memory (and greenhorns can do without), our dynamic duo should have devoted a little more time to the origins and cinematic legacy of the unique pop-culture phenomenon. The sacred name of His Holiness, El Santo, is evoked but twice, and gosh only knows if they’ve ever feasted on Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy. And lest one think it’s all faked, two luchadores died during the making of this picture. In Spanish with English subtitles. (2015) — Scott Marks
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