i must say that from the preview this look like just my type of film powerful and good acting and tense and maybe a bit slow but only in a smouldering with tension kind of way . perhaps that be why i be so disappointed with the plot less tedium that be three burial . a border patrol guard kill a mexican and this prompt an hour and a half ( it seem like at least 3 ) of the guard be drag across the country by the mexican friend . and it be reveal that the guard wife have sex with the mexican but with no character development this be simply unfathomable . this utter lack of character development be the inherent problem with the film and it render most of the character action to be inexplicable . moreover we be expect to sympathise with the mexican immigrant yet without any of the protagonist in the film be any more than almost comic stereotype i be leave completely cold . i agree that the politics be sledgehammer pc but this would not have bother me at all if the film hadn not be so lacklustre . unfortunately and despite the excellent acting of barry pepper a the border guard and this film be as vacant a the texan desert in which it be set .