La Bahia Pirata Instant

The cast is uniformly excellent. brings a charming everyman quality to Mateo, never veering into the smugness that plagues younger leads. But Ana de Armas steals the show as Elena: a woman who has sharpened her wit on the whetstone of survival. Her verbal duels with Diego Luna’s Vargas are worth the ticket price alone. Luna, for his part, plays the governor as a coiled snake—polite, intelligent, and utterly monstrous. His final confrontation on the cliffs of the cove is genuinely tense.

In theaters now. Runtime: 2 hours, 18 minutes. Rated R for violence, language, and some thematic elements. La bahia pirata

Carlos Rivera-Ortiz Starring: Diego Luna, Ana de Armas, Pedro Pascal (voice), and newcomer Mateo Uribe The cast is uniformly excellent