It does have some riveting moments and some very strong acting.

Ben Hernandez Bray's "El Chicano" seldom amounts to anything more than a crude prototype for the kind of Latinx-driven superhero movies that Marvel and DC should already be making by now.

When your lead actor doesn't seem to be having any fun in an action movie, there's not much left for audiences to cling to. Genre fans will need to look elsewhere for their gunslinger fix.

...let me just say this Latino superhero film is a highly entertaining, wildly innovative, and trailblazing movie...