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Rafaga De Plomo (1985)

  • Writer: Armando Hernandez
    Armando Hernandez
  • Sep 20
  • 2 min read

It was just like any other night down at the Texas Bar. Men & women were playing pool and having a few drinks after a hard day's work. All of a sudden, a group of armed-men wearing leather outfits & hockey masks enter the bar and gun down every single bar patron. Mateo Trevino (Mario Almada), back from serving in the army & haven't set a foot at the bar in many yearsenters the bar at the wrong time where he unfortunately witnesses everyone inside murdered. He picks up a weapon that was left behind by a gunmen and ends being caught holding it by the police.


Mateo now accused of slaughtering everyone in the barends up in jail and awaits further prosecution. His brother Fernando ( Fernando Almada) is accused of being an accomplice of Mateo's, so he then decides to break out his brother out of jail in order to find the real murderers. Fernando hatches up a breakout plan for Mateo which involves an airplane and rope. The breakout is a success, but finding the murderers of the Texas Bar & getting them prosecuted is difficult considering the murderers are a group of drug traffickers known as the "Cobras", and its leader Tony (Jorge Reynoso) is a very powerful man that has the local authorities on his payroll. Mateo's estranged daughter is then murdered by the Cobras and everyone else they're close with, thus leading to an epic gun-firing battle of revenge.


Shot back to back with Siete En la MiraRafaga De Plomo (aka "Murder in the Texas Bar" and "Cobra Gang") is filled with lots of gun-firing action! So many rifles, pistols and shotguns are fired throughout the entire movie! As cool as the action is, the general plot wasn't just as cool since it was kind of dry at times and some things didn't make sense since a lot of the "deep" plot points were rather vague. Either way though, Rafaga De Plomo is still a lot of fun to watch since there's so much gun-firing action.


As mentioned before, Rafaga De Plomo was shot back to back with Siete En La Mira considering both movies were directed by Pedro Galindo III, filmed in Los Fresnos & Brownsville, Texas and most of the cast from Siete also appear in Rafaga. So with that, watching both movies after one another would make one hell of a double feature.


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