The Mexican star’s third feature as director fumbles its game of shifting roles and perspectives, delivering an awkwardly low-energy meditation on life-as-performance, complete with Ricky Martin cameo.
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La Corriente del Golfo Sifting through Gael García Bernal’s recent roles — from the namesake conquistador of Lav Diaz’s “Magellan,” the grieving wife-guy in Piero Messina’s droopy sci-fi “Another End,” and the fast-aging family man of M. Night Shyamalan’s “Old” — won’t give you much insight on “Hombre al Agua,” which translates as “man overboard.” Except that unlike those international productions, García Bernal’s third directorial feature caters to the home side as a quasi-popular Mexican dramedy whose gags and in-jokes will play — if for anyone — more effectively to a Spanish-speaking crowd.
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