Academy Award Winner Cuba Gooding, Jr. is a Border Patrol Officer in the New Mexico desert with a secret past that is about to catch up with him. When his old gang leader tracks him down and forces him to smuggle drugs across the border, he must choose between the life he swore to leave behind and saving his family at any cost.
Acting
Cuba commits harder than this script deserves
Cinematography
New Mexico desert actually looks expensive
Director
Kevin Bray
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kevin Bray also directed episodes of The Wire and Friday Night Lights, which explains why this looks better than it has any right to.
This came out during the Obama era border security expansion and accidentally captures that specific political anxiety about who gets to be 'American enough.'
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