Gringo

Harold Soyinka is a middle manager at a Chicago pharmaceutical firm run by Richard Rusk and Elaine Markinson. When the company pushes into the medical marijuana business and sends Harold to Mexico to oversee a new production plant, he is unaware that his employers have cut off a local cartel. Stranded south of the border, Harold learns that the firm plans to sell out from under him and that his wife has been unfaithful. With nothing left to lose, he stages his own kidnapping and demands a ransom, but his employers would rather see him dead than pay, leaving Harold hunted by cartel gunmen, a mercenary, and US drug investigators alike.

Nash Edgerton directs this action crime comedy, his third feature after Fuel and The Square and the film preceding Candy Bar in his filmography, from a screenplay by Matthew Stone and Anthony Tambakis. David Oyelowo leads as Harold, with Joel Edgerton as Richard, Charlize Theron as Elaine, Amanda Seyfried as Sunny, Sharlto Copley as Mitch Rusk, and Harry Treadaway as Miles. Theron also produces.

Produced by STX Films, Amazon Studios, Denver and Delilah Productions and Blue-Tongue Films, the Australian-American release cost about 10 million dollars and returned roughly 11 million worldwide, a thin margin. On IMDb it holds 6.1 from around 34,000 votes, while on TMDB it sits at 5.9 from over 800, and a critics' score of 5.1 from 133 reviews puts professional opinion below the audience's.