While perhaps not as masterful as Lone Star, Men with Guns is nevertheless a very good film. With retirement upon him, Fuentes is determined that some part of his teaching will outlast him. It has been years since Fuentes has heard from any of his former students, and he decides to take a trip out of the city to look for a few of them. The deeper he gets into the wilderness, the more horrified he becomes by what he finds in different Indian villages. Poverty and lawlessness are the chief characteristics of life.
Fear lies heavily in the air.
Politics are meaningless. Along the way, Fuentes assembles an unusual group of traveling companions. One of the most vociferous arguments to develop against Men with Guns focuses on the setting. These kinds of human rights abuses have happened throughout history and are still taking place all across the world wherever oppressors with superior technology use their position of strength to dispossess and suppress the indigenous population. At first, he is cocooned by ignorance, but the further he proceeds from civilization, the more he realizes how frail his legacy is.