Bertalan himself stars as Tobi, a scrap dealer who teams up with hustler Tony-Lee (Russell Yuen) in a plan to steal El Señor's money so that he can return home to Montevideo.
Glen Schaefer of The Province wrote that the film was intermittently interesting, but concluded that "the overall effect is of warmed-over Robert Rodriguez, or maybe Touch of Evil without Orson Welles or wit.
"[2] Rick Groen of The Globe and Mail wrote that "Visually, it makes for an arresting spectacle, but the film's lapses in cohesiveness suggest that, working on a tight location schedule, Bertalan may simply have run out of time and money to shoot the script he wanted, forcing him to patch over the shortfalls in the cutting room.
Bald and diminutive yet with a burly physique, he's an oddly compelling presence on camera, looking like some weird cross between Bruce Willis and Wallace Shawn — his very appearance is as genre-bending as his movie.
"[6] Stephen Cole of the National Post wrote that except for Bussières the film wasn't particularly well-acted, concluding that "a stronger cast and a tighter script might have turned Between the Moon and Montevideo into something truly out of this world.