minor spoiler in this comment . el colombian dream be an awful boring movie that do not deserve to be watch at all . it start out good with an original narrative and good dialog and good use of camera and art direction and but that about every good thing this movie have to offer . the movie take one whole hour to set it plot ( that be a whole hour for the drug dealer to loose their drug and our hero to get a hold of it ) and and only then and the actual story begin . that first hour doesn not add anything decisive to the story nor explore character in a fascinating way . character be another thing that make this movie so tedious . there be not one character that make a single conscious choice . and that what support the storytelling the fact that character keep on make the wrong choice and so the plot can keep on get complicate . it really a sitcom structure that turn out pathetic for a two hour fifteen minute movie and while it also transform character in nothing but cartoon like clichés . now be it fair for a movie to rely entirely on character lie that need to be support to maintain it storytelling . it certainly be not . i. e. if el duende want to kill his boo why not just grab a gun and shoot him and instead of put together such a complicated and uncertain plan . at another point of the movie the narrator say that it suck to bear in a country that turn poet into killer ( or something to that effect ) and and one can not help to wonder if it really the country fault . this country suck in many way that a fact and just a every country in the world suck in one or another way ( but to be truthful and this country also many great thing just a every other country ) but be it fair to blame it on the country for the fact that a silly immature cartoon like character end up in jail . not to mention that after he realize that he wasn not cut out to be a part of that business he have plenty of time and chance to get out of it . i believe it would be fairly to blame it on stupid writing that make the character take one wrong stupid choice after the other . another thing that trouble me be the fact that the movie turn around a load of ecstasy like pill when that exactly the one drug that colombia be not know to be a quality producer . be it not lees complicate ( and more realistic ) to make it a load of cocaine . where the movie maker contaminate by the realismo mágico ( magic realism ) that spread on almost every piece of colombian literature and art craft . do they want to make it an original out of this world story . who know . the fact be that it turn out ridiculous . if they want to shoot yet another colombian make drug mafia movie and there be so many real life story publish out there and which happen to be good and much more fascinating than this one and that any of them would have make up a good scrip . on an aside note there be a kind of unwritten rule where we ( colombian ) must embrace and support the movie make in our country and just for the fact that movie making be an almost impossible task in colombia . but the truth be that one can not embrace and support such a bad movie a this one . one last word represent do not watch it .