Get the Gringo

Mel Gibson plays Driver, a career criminal who crosses into Mexico after a botched robbery and a high-speed chase ends with his car wrecked at the border. Mexican authorities arrest him and send him to a prison that operates less like a lockup than a walled town run by inmates, where weapons and drugs circulate freely and newcomers are viewed as potential resources. Driver struggles to adapt until a young boy living inside the prison helps him find his footing, and he eventually takes on the task of protecting the child.

Adrian Grünberg directed in his feature debut, working from a screenplay he wrote with Gibson and Stacy Perskie; Gibson and Bruce Davey produced. It is the first of four features Grünberg has directed to date, ahead of Rambo: Last Blood, The Black Demon and Protector. Alongside Gibson and Kevin Hernandez as the Kid, the cast includes Daniel Giménez Cacho, Peter Stormare, Jesús Ochoa and Roberto Sosa.

The film was released in 2012 and runs 96 minutes. It carries a film critics' rating of 6.3/10 from 57 reviews, close to its audience score of 6.6/10 on TMDB from roughly 1,850 votes. Produced on a budget of 35 million USD, it returned about 9 million USD worldwide. On IMDb, ratings for the film are 6.9/10.