Counterattack by Chava Cartas (2025)
After a Mexican Special Forces officer saves two young women from being kidnapped, he and his fellow commandos find themselves in the crosshairs of a violent drug cartel while on leave. Which means they’ll have to use all of their training to survive in the Mexican countryside and stay one step ahead of the cartel’s seemingly limitless forces. There’s no fluff to Counterattack; it’s precisely what it says on the tin, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Much like France’s Lost Bullet films, Counterattack is a perfectly serviceable popcorn flick that’s proof Hollywood doesn’t have a corner on the action market. (The fact that it clocks in under 90 minutes is just an added bonus.) The dialog does get hamfistedly earnest whenever the commandos wax rhapsodically about their duty and honor, but that actually adds to the film’s effect, especially when they make their inevitable last stand.
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