La Soga 3 is a wonderful action flick. As its title announces, it's about Vengeance. In this manner, it isn't that different from laconic master pieces like John Boorman's POINT BLANK, where the characters isn't endowed with the gift of the gab. Our hero in La Soga is about action. In the few moments where our hero seems to be in a retrospective, the silences carry the meaning more than any speech, words can ever do. Take in in contrast of the corrupt senator, who seems to overexploit, to over dictate everything in his power. The senator can't stop talking and the actor's approach contrast strikingly woihtt he actor/director/writer/producer Manny Perez' tactful approach to his title character. You put these contrarian forces againts each other and you get a precise, edgy action flick that is the crown achievement of this film.
But this isn't empty vessel like the JOHN WICK movies that always take place in another planet called "Earth" (not in any way, shape or form resembling our world). La Soga has in mind political themes that may be construed as liberal, but are actually more complicated than at first glance. Revenge movies often have to engage with the duplicity of individual freedom/action to take the law into your own hands and the limits of the law. La Soga explores these themes by exposing a country that is in deep need of change, of needing some sort of revolution to correct it course. The film doesn't, however, merely extol for political and societal change, it engages with a deeper sense of morality about the change. This is where the heart and the brilliance lie in LA SOGA 3. Don't miss it.
