Seriously, how do you make a crime thriller, about kidnapped girls, in an atmospheric, small, Spanish town, in some of the worst, wettest weather in history, and in the first few days of a global coronavirus pandemic - and still manage to make it so incredibly boring?
The plot, but there is of it, is dull and predictable. And you've seen it all before missing girls across a number of towns are all apparently connected when one new girl escapes from her captors. Two cups, one male, one female are on the case. Gradually we discover that the bad guys number three, and the good cops have only managed to cut two. So the question of the film becomes, who could the third guy be? In fact, this is really the only plot element in a story where everything else is so linear that it's obvious from a mile off. And unfortunately in this case, it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who the third guy is, given that there are so few contenders among the cast.
What is it about recent Spanish crime thrillers that a mistake atmosphere for gloom, and portentousness for plot? While you're pulling out that admittedly, rhetorical question, go watch something else.
The plot, but there is of it, is dull and predictable. And you've seen it all before missing girls across a number of towns are all apparently connected when one new girl escapes from her captors. Two cups, one male, one female are on the case. Gradually we discover that the bad guys number three, and the good cops have only managed to cut two. So the question of the film becomes, who could the third guy be? In fact, this is really the only plot element in a story where everything else is so linear that it's obvious from a mile off. And unfortunately in this case, it wouldn't take Sherlock Holmes to figure out who the third guy is, given that there are so few contenders among the cast.
What is it about recent Spanish crime thrillers that a mistake atmosphere for gloom, and portentousness for plot? While you're pulling out that admittedly, rhetorical question, go watch something else.