Monos

Monos

The fields of this story take place in a remote settlement somewhere in Latin America. A group of teenagers, consisting of eight people, did something similar to military training here. Exercises, different call names (Wolf, Boom-Boom, Smurf, Bigfoot and others), as well as practicing skills in real life... They even have weapons, which could not lead to anything good. As a result, they have Sarah Watson as a hostage along with a draft cow for the mysterious Organization. But even these prepared young people can be ambushed, which can doom their mission to failure. Read more The director of the project was Alejandro Landes, who has no popular full-length films to his credit. The roles in the film were performed by: Julianne Nicholson ("True Values" (1998), "August" (2013), "Tonya vs. Everyone" (2017)), Moises Arias ("Kings of Summer" (2013), "Stanford Prison Experiment" (2015), "A Meter Apart" (2019)), as well as little-known child actors. The premiere of the film took place on January 27, 2019 at the Sundance Film Festival, USA. Film critics of the Metacritic site rated the film at 78 points out of 100, and on Rotten tomatoes it is possible to find 93% positive reviews (115/123).