We have British cops driving an amazing range of cars, I'm sure it was an eighties Vauxhall Belmont which chased the taxi after the assignation, but a modern Subaru Imprezza escorting the prison van in a few scenes prior.
(Sources : Hotel Mumbai)
Hotel Mumbai Amy Hammer
For the big showdown we leave the movie-within-a-movie scenario created by the documentary set-up and are taken right into the movie's reality.
Amazingly enough, it managed to do this in a gentle, mildly humorous manner, which only in retrospect seens threatening to one's status quo.
Maybe the fact that this particular cannibal movie wasn't directed by one of the usual suspects (Lenzi, Deodato) is what makes it so tolerable.
Bruce Campbell(again playing Ash) and his girlfriend wend their way over the river and through the woods to some cabin in the remotest part of nowhere - where only weeks before an Archaeologist(something like that) and his wife were staying decoding the book of the dead(Necrominicon(?)). I did like the obvious homage to Lovecraft.
People from other countries may not get it because this is SO mexican, that even non-mexican spanish-speakers may have a hard time getting all the jokes..
Thunderbirds was a great series for the time and would have made a great action/adventure movie if only the writers could have figured out where to target it.
I expected it to be a romp, but I did not expect it to aim at such a low age group.
