Violencia Sin Tregua (1990)

It’s your birthday & you still go to work, your wife made tuna sandwiches for lunch despite not liking tuna, but at least there’s a nice can of tomato juice to go along with it. The tires from your car got jacked, but that’s okay because you can just take a metro van ride to work. Maybe you’ll have to walk a little distance to work still, but that’s fine because your co-workers are throwing you a bash at the office so it’s gonna be a total chill day. 

You then suddenly witness a murder of a lawyer at the hands of a bubble-gum chewing mob assassin & some of his goons from the police force. Is it still going to be a chill birthday? Absolutely not. Now you’re gonna have to run like hell with tomato juice all over your shirt because they shot your briefcase and only hit the can of tomato juice instead of your heart. Symbolic? Nah. But you do need to have a lot of faith to save yourself & your family from these assassins that know you’re not dead!

This point of view experience I wrote is literally what happens in Violencia Sin Tregua (translated as "Relentless Violence"), but instead of it happening to you, it’s happening to Sergio Goyri. Literally. 

Violencia Sin Tregua is actually a pretty decent movie with plenty of intense scenes, has humor that doesn’t taint over the serious situation going on, and this all takes place in one day. Literally. Next to Goyri’s top-notch performance as the tomato juice-stained “Mauricio”, Juan Pelaez’s character “Nikki” is also excellent and I longed for a showcase of him because I found him quite fascinating. A very common antagonist for sure, but being played by a great actor like Pelaez makes him all the more intriguing. And of course Goyri’s ex-wife Telly Fillipini stars as his wife in the movie and she’s very convincing with the tuna sandwiches being good. Literally. 

Violencia Sin Tregua is a good watch on any occasion, but I just hope the experience in the movie never really happens to you. If it does, well then I’m very sorry about that & try to enjoy the tuna sandwiches anyway.