March 2024. This seven-part Mexican miniseries (set in Yucatán, though partly filmed in Colombia) is a breezy, generally agreeable hybrid of Indiana Jones and caper movies like the OCEAN'S series. Miguel (Alfonso Dosal), the miscreant son of a now-senile famous archaeologist (ahem), teams up with his gay conman uncle Wilson (Juan Pablo Medina) and assembles a motley crew of misfit thieves and con artists to search for a legendary Maya treasure, pursued by a ruthless enemy (Adrian Ladrón) with a seemingly endless array of heavily armed goons and a grudge against Miguel for reasons Miguel can't fathom.
The story breaks no new ground, and its joviality initially feels a little forced; as with the weaker Indiana Jones movies, it sometimes assumes it can strong-arm you into enjoyment by just putting bickering characters in situations and hustling everyone through action setpieces like schoolchildren being dragged through an amusement park they're not that into. Fortunately, as the rest of the crew is fleshed out, the characters begin to grow on you and the series becomes more genuinely endearing, if still not very deep. Medina is great fun, as is Mabel Cadena as Inés, the only competent one of the cops on the crew's trail, and Ester Expósito (from ÉLITE) effortlessly steals most of the scenes she's in as Miguel's stone-faced scam artist ex-girlfriend Lilí, whom Miguel is not so secretly hoping to win back despite her resolutely mercenary priorities.
As with the Indiana Jones movies, the story's cultural sensitivity is low, the way it uses the villain's burn scars as shorthand for Evil is rather offensive, and some stabs at seriousness toward the end flirt with mawkishness, but it's no worse (albeit also no better) than most of the genre in these respects. CONTAINS LESBIANS? Inés the cop is apparently bisexual, although little comes of it in the story. VERDICT: Not always as fun as it thinks it is, but a pretty good time overall. Anyone who likes LEVERAGE or the OCEAN'S movies would probably enjoy it.
netflixlat: Aventura, acción y romance en el caribe mexicano... La serie Bandidos, con Ester Expósito y Alfonso Dosal, terminó grabaciones y llegará próximamente a Netflix 🤠🏝️💰
Alfonso Dosal, Andrea Chaparro, Ester Expósito, Juan Pablo Fuentes, Juan Pablo Medina and Nico Furtado via netflixlat on Instagram, 07/24/2023.
Buscarán el tesoro más grande que nadie vio jamás… “Bandidos”
Después de descubrir un mapa antiguo, Miguel, Lilí, Wilson y otros bandidos comienzan una aventura en el Caribe mexicano llena de peligros para intentar descubrir un tesoro que ha estado perdido durante muchos años. ¿Podrán lograrlo con un plan improvisado, un poco de buena suerte y sabiendo que no son los únicos detrás de este tesoro?.
Estreno: 13 de marzo de 2024 en Netflix.
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La serie cuenta con las actuaciones de Ester Expósito, Alfonso Dosal, Juan Pablo Medina, Andrés Baida, Andrea Chaparro, Mabel Cadena, Nicolás Furtado, Juan Pablo Fuentes, Bruno Bichir, entre otros.
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Los protagonistas asistieron a la premiere de la serie en la Ciudad de México
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