Illegal Tender Review

Illegal Tender released in 2007, is a movie about a gangster named Wilson that gets caught up in a love triangle gone bad. Wilson gets Javier a big time gangster's sister pregnant, but she ends up killing herself and the unborn child because she feels unloved by Wilson and Wilson wanted to be with Millie and the family he was growing with her causing him to distance from Javier's sister. So Javier wants revenge on behalf of his sister that was pregnant with a fellow gangster Wilson's child because he feels that it is Wilson's fault his sister killed her self and he must pay for what he did. So Javier has Wilson murdered but that doesn't seem to be enough Javier wants more revenge and he knows how he wants to get it, so he goes after the people Wilson loved the most, his family.  So now Millie finds that the DeLeon family are at war, and she must protect her family by any means necessary; and although she thinks she is just fighting just for the safety, honor and revenge for the death of Wilson the man she loves, she will never know the real meaning behind this war but regardless she still fights for her family the ones she loves and also for the man she lost.

This movie received a lot of mixed reviews. Some in which were good and of course there were some bad reviews as well. However I saw one review that I saw I felt was right out bashing Illegal Tender. This review pretty much just seemed as Dr.Frank didn't like the movie at all. In this Review Dr. Frank Swietek on the site "oneguysopinion" made comments such as: this movie was cheesy, trashy, predictable. He even said that you would agree with a line from the movie and say what Millie says " I cant wait for this to be over" after watching this movie. He continues to say comments such as, “Illegal Tender” is obviously not “The Godfather,” Puerto Rican-style: it’s pure B-movie hokum that might once have been half a drive-in double feature and even today could make for campy late-night cable fodder but is absurdly out of place on the big screen. oneguysopinion.com/Review.php?ID=2276

I could not AT ALL agree with this review because i loved the movie. There are a lot of lessons and a pretty good storyline. No Illegal Tender is not past films such as Scarface, The Godfather and etc but Illegal Tender is a more toned down ex gangster family story in my opinion. I like this movie because the cast was great, I think Rick Gonzalez and all the actors and actresses did a great job. The storyline was clear, understandable, there was nice music going along with the movie however it was more Spanish/Hip hop type music playing throughout the movie because it is a Latin/ Puerto Rican family based film but even if you didn't speak Spanish the music still sounded good. However i think this movie is good for people that like action, crime, thriller and drama movies, I think if your not into movies like this you may not like this film; but it is still a good movie to watch regardless I love this movie and can repeatedly watch it and not get bored and enjoy watching it everytime!