Get The Gringo (2012)

American and Mexican Border Police are in hot pursuit of a couple of clowns on the run. The circus has come to town and its payday when the getaway car lands on Mexican soil with millions of dollars floating around in the back seat. Although Officer Vazquez (Mario Zahagoza) is more than happy to accommodate his newly unannounced guests, somehow this isn’t quite the “Sun and Fun” south of the border vacation that Driver (Mel Gibson) and his buddy had planned. Driver gets dumped in a crowded holding cell and then later transferred to general prison population where he quickly discovers that this place isn’t like any joint he’s ever been in before, and he’ll have to rely on his talents if he’s going to survive here. Within no time, he becomes a pathetically successful petty thief and befriends a 10 year old kid (Kevin Hernandez), who in time will tell and teach him the ropes of life in this prison. Soon he gets a visitor; a very unprofessional looking Embassy guy shows up with his police file. He points out that there’s no name in the file and it says Driver was caught at a downtown drugstore trying to buy valium without a prescription. He knows it’s an erroneous charge and he assumes that Driver is a career criminal because he doesn’t have any fingerprints. Driver doesn’t seem to trust the guy enough to give him any real information, and after they share a few sarcastic insults with each other, Driver knows he can’t count on this Embassy for anything. Eventually he gets back to talking with the kid again; and over time as they exchange secrets Driver realizes that this kid is his ticket out of prison. And in the end, if you look deep enough, sometimes there is some good in everyone.