The short of it: While in prison, a cholo(Diego) learns of a briefcase buried in the mountains containing 1 million pesos($73,599). He gets it.
What set this movie apart from all the other DVDs in the bargain bin for me is the mythology of the Santa Muerte. In Segal's marked for death you get the jamaican/Voodoo/crime combo, so I was expecting something like a Cholo/Santa Muerte/crime combo. The movie gets into it a little, in the beginning the cholo's cellmate (Tijuano) talks to him about the spirit world, Santa Muerte and the rules it's worshipers follow. When the Diego gets out there is a one-sided shoot out between his and a rival gang. Later, he does one of rituals and thats it. There is also a reoccurring dream that doesn't pay off. There was a lot to work with and combining the spiritual with the crime part would have made this a decent B-movie, but before the halfway point it's all forgotten about. At the very end Diego talks about going to the other world but by then who cares. What you are left with is your cliche crime movie with drug deals gone bad, girlfriend hostages and a Reservoir Dogs-style mexican standoff(or just standoff in this case).
This movie gets at least 1 santa muerte square because I actually sat through the whole thing.
