KinoSis

Military coups aren’t nearly as in demand as they once were, why is that? The heyday was the 1960s, they really got into couping back then, and it remained hugely popular throughout the 70s. Like much else from those decades, there’s a retro trend that carries on the once-beloved genre to this day, but they feel a bit played out now, I think there’s only been about fifty coups in the last decade (shout out to Myanmar). Still, don’t be disheartened - fifty or so is enough to give a perennial quality to this serviceable, if sometimes draggingly slow, and notably low-budget conspiracy thriller. It’s a Canadian film, nobody has ever heard of it, and those two things are related, but had it been American, who knows if notoriety or obscurity would have followed? Any film that takes a pro-military-coup stance at least has political novelty, but perhaps the kind of novelty that compounds its not wholly unfair oblivion. So there’s this country, no name, sort of implied to be Latin America but