If the Cormac McCarthy rip-off wasn’t enough, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza’s ponderous thriller also gives El Corvo a couple of scenes lifted from The Terminator, and the villain from Enter the Dragon’s blade-hand for good measure.

A passable, forgettable genre picture that perks to life whenever El Corvo and Kris go mano-a-mano.

No offense to Mission: Impossible or Ballerina or whatever other bajillion-dollar project Hollywood wants to pump out, but Diablo has already claimed the title of action film of the year. This is the pure, uncut stuff.

It’s plotted in a seemingly straightforward way for the sake of eventually featuring blowouts between Adkins and Zaror. However, director Ernesto Diaz Espinoza somehow manages to develop a somewhat emotional story