Again another movie with a great content of bias, racism without any logic reason

Rating: 1/10 (17 July 2005)

Certainly this movie has a lot of action content, good action sequences, mystery, deception and other good qualities other IMDb critics may say about it. However, the director apparently has never seen a picture of Santa Fe De Bogotá and clearly has no interest whatsoever in showing to his audience the real city or even a replica of it. He is perhaps so ignorant, he does not even have a clue where it is actually located.
I am Colombian and it is still unbelievable that in the 21st century US-movie directors not only shoot movie scenes in places which largely differ from the real ones but also have the guts to deceive the public in an endless effort to discriminate, lower, and have the guts to show no respect whatsoever to a foreign and democratic society. Bogota is an 8-million people city as large as the Washington D.C. area; and does not look like anywhere close to a 5000-inhabitant Mexican town full of ugly folks, has many tall corporate buildings, as well as french, Japanese and American brand cars on its highways and avenues (never with bullet holes), there is no lousy army patrolling it but it is actually home to the best US and Colombian agencies and training centers against terrorism. Finally, people do not get drunk all God damn day and do not listen to silly US-composed ranch era songs whose purpose is only to lower foreign countries such as Mexico and Colombia.
I encourage the US-movie industry in Hollywood to never allow such attitudes from its producers and directors. They must also be careful against the bad consequences it may bring to us such as driving away foreign investment. I can't recall, even for a single time, that the Bogota city hall has turned down any official request for shooting movie scenes on it. Movies should be shot at real places, similar ones or at least studio replicas; the story only being a fiction...Movies are art.. entertainment, fun and joy, not bigotry and racism.