Groups of poor disenfranchised whites across
the country begin targeting their white bosses
and vowing that the purge won’t stop. “Ever
After!” is their war cry.
That makes strange allies of the Tucker ranching
family and a pair of newly arrived immigrants
from Mexico: Adela (Ana de la Reguera) and her
husband Juan (Tenoch Huerta).
Up until then, the Tucker’s son, Dylan, (Josh
Lucas) was flirting with outright white
supremacy, not wanting Spanish to be heard
in his house and not believing that cowboys
could be anything but white Americans. Now,
he and his family are being kept alive by the
very people he disdained.
Martial law is declared but the Army can’t stop
the lawlessness. A potential escape may come
from America’s neighbors: Canada and Mexico,
who have opened their borders for six hours to
any refugees from the madness.
The film under Everardo Gout’s direction then
becomes a quest as the Tuckers — including
Dylan Tucker’s pregnant wife — together
with Adela and Juan fight their way to El
Paso, hunted by masked men demanding
purification of the white race.
DeMonaco is not at all subtle with his script
and maybe that’s for the best. In one scene,
a crazed white supremacist with a swastika
face tattoo listens to various gunfire cracking
outside, identifying each weapon by its blast
— AK-47, Glock, AR-15. He calls it a very
American sound: “Homegrown music from
the American heartland.”