Set in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, the film follows vacationing high school students (Devon Werkheiser, Sean Marquette) as they try to recover a valuable watch from a gangster who demands to be paid triple the watch's value before returning it.
Sundown is effective as the story of a kid who is too easily influenced by his friend and who makes a very stupid mistake in pursuit of a girl. It is not effective when it turns violent or starts including an abundance of homophobic and transphobic humor.
Lebrija wants to make a heartfelt statement on love and passion, but he's picked the wrong subgenre to express his sincerity, leaving "Sundown" uneven and eventually out of gas.
