A tiro limpio
2013 · 22m · República Dominicana
Directed by Jean Gabriel Guerra
Genres: action, crime, thriller
A band of heavily armed, trained robbers assaults a branch of Banco Bansur in Santo Domingo, leaving the population in shock. The cold, calculating leader of the band, Frank, assembles a team of professionals to carry out a series of high-calibre robberies never before seen in the country.
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A tiro limpio plays it aggressively straight—Dominican crime procedural, professional crew, calculated heists—which is exactly why it's boring; there's no premise here that makes you say 'wait, WHAT,' just competent execution of a formula we've seen a thousand times.
Guerra demonstrates formal control over the mechanics of tension and ensemble choreography, situating the film within a lineage of Latin American crime cinema that values operational precision, though the work doesn't quite find the thematic or stylistic argument that would distinguish it from its lineage.
The film's entire grip comes from how Guerra uses sound design and reaction shots to collapse the gap between the crew's calculated professionalism and the chaos they've actually unleashed—one choice in how a guard processes the moment, one ambient noise layered underneath, and suddenly the clinical robbery becomes human disorientation.