Having enjoyed several very good Mexican movies in the recent past ("Amores Perros", "Y tu mama tambien"), this poor attempt of a suspense movie is a complete disappointment. Christian Gonzalez, the director, seems to enjoy the damsels-in-distress stories. Previous work "La Banda del Antrax" and "Ritmo, traicion y muerte" also deal with kidnapping and bound girls. This last effort, seemingly with better budget, may be even worse than the earlier films. This is probably due to the fact that he tries very hard to produce a somber, dark suspenseful film attempting to emulate the old Hollywood formula of the tough cop who is retiring only to be back for duty for one more assignment. Sadly the movie has a pitiful script and second class actors that just can't even come close to resemble a good American cop made-for-TV movie. Alexis Ayala plays Benjamin Solero who nabs a drug lord at the prologue of the movie. A dark scene, over a card game, with painfully slow dialog and a ridiculous, hard to believe, easy capture by one man of a major criminal surrounded by bodyguards. As with the rest of the movie there is not one iota of good action. He just pulls a gun and declares "I am a federal agent" and the camera cut to the party celebrating his heroics and where he announces retirement. Well, not so fast. The drug lord arranges the kidnapping of the daughter of the judge who is to sentence him. The college girl is lured to a trap and the drama is suppose to growth from the premise that Benjamin will rescue the girl. Unfortunately, aside from several scenes of the girl in a variety of bondage conditions, there is no drama or intensity to anything happening on the screen. Cop brakes with wife, cop gets no help from the officials, cop entangles himself with Carolina the only witness of the kidnapping and solves magically the whereabouts of the girl by obtaining clues from a drunken police informer who he helped in the past. The movie totally collapses in the last 30 minutes. The convoluted script involves dream sequences which are suppose to mesmerize the audience but end up with a disjointed anticlimactic ending where the girl, all of a sudden has been rescued (how, does not seem to be important) the cop has killed the kidnapper inside a train cargo vehicle (how and when he got there are not important either). The editing is atrocious, the soundtrack is offensively loud (and irrelevant given the absolute lack of action scenes) and the acting amateurish at best. I am sure there will be more coming from Gonzalez. I suppose he can only improve from this bottom of the barrel suspense movie attempt. But, then again, I may be wrong.