It's sad that an action movie which is supposed to leave you at the edge of your seat turns into a comedy. I was with a group of friends watching this movie on the TV and we spent the whole time saying "what a terrible lousy movie". It has scenes that make absolutely no sense and seem to have been copied from other action movies. At the end of the movie we were all confused about the plot and why were those scenes even there. Then the part where the Portuguese actors try to speak English is so lame, saying "fek" and "fok" which made us laugh hysterically... The love scenes between Julia and Peter were so forced and fake... The acting was so so bad.... Then the unnecessary nudity it's just something they filmed to put on the trailer so that it would catch the attention of possible viewers... The only reason I can find for the lousiness of this movie is that they didn't watch it before they released it for the premiere, because there is no one with a normal working brain that could watch that movie and not say "what a piece of crap!". If you want to see a good Portuguese movie in the same genre try Call Girl.

My theory is that they tried for a good Portuguese film and ended up doing a bad American one. Not even the nudity can save it. The rhythm is awful, I heard people snoring on the cinema, the acting is unnaturally forced and the plot tries so hard to resemble an American action film (with scenes in Afganisthan hahah)that it becomes laughable on scenes it wasn't supposed to be funny at all. And all the cars are Skodas!! What sort of hit-man drives a Skoda?! But José Wallenstein is very good as a drag queen and Nicolau Breyner does the job as an actor, no surprises there! I understand this film should be seen as a fantasy, the director's fantasy of making an "action movie", but it doesn't deliver anything worth the 5 euros you pay to see it!

"Oh, I can tell what they tried to do here, but didn't work." This is what you will be thinking every minute of this film. Its probably very low budget but thats no excuse for the spelling and grammatical mistakes when they speak or write in English. This could have been a good Austin Powers type Spoof, but takes itself seriously which is not working. However there are amusing moments with Vitor Norte, and the bald guy whatever his name was. Was funny to see the guy from "Mano", playing a surprisingly convincing bad guy, and Nicolau Breyner's undeniably great acting gives some of the film a bit of credibility.All in all not worth 5 euros to watch but better than sitting at home when you've exhausted all the other films.

Peter Oliveira (played by Pedro Lima) is a hit-man that is hired to kill Giorgios Thanassos a powerful man, protected by personal security and owner of a great fortune. It's his first job in Portugal, but for a professional like him, an expert hit-man also known as Mr Shade, it's just one more job that he'll do with extreme precision... NOT! STOP IT RIGHT THERE! James Bond Type of movie! Ah ah ah! You must be kidding me! Why deceive the Portuguese viewer with something it is not! And never could be with this poor, I mean POOR, quality! OK, I know it's a low cost production, made in a few days, with little money; it's probably its only excuse, but then why deceive people inducing them to believe it has quality and connecting it to something it could have never been connected?! Action movie?! James Bond's genre?! "Adventure"?! Come on! The movie is terribly slow paced; it has cheap drama totally disconnected from the plot (a James Bond film with that cheap drama would be hilarious!); it has few and poorly done "action scenes" – they appear just in the end and they are so bad that I even doubt if I can call them "action scenes"; and even the acting, which would be very important to compensate the few resources, is bad! I only appreciated the acting by Nicolau Breyner. He does a very short character but he's the only one to do it well! I won't question his qualities as a direction because it's his first job in the position and the resources were short, but so far I still prefer him as an actor... Pedro Lima seemed to have the look of a hit-man at first sight, but after watch the movie I don't think so! He does some important scenes terribly! Claudia Vieira has the most terrible mission: to catch the viewer's attention through her nudity, but doing a dull and empty character! I explain. Unlike Soraia Chaves' nudity in the film CALL GIRL or even O CRIME DO PADRE AMARO, the nude scenes of Claudia Vieira have no point to the film! They have the only purpose to call the viewer's attention! That's too obvious! In the mentioned movies, Soraia's nudity was completely justified by her characters and made sense. In CONTRATO Claudia's nudity doesn't. I'm not complaining, even because I'll say something about this movie that I NEVER thought I would, but it's a fact: The only good thing in this movie is Claudia Vieira's nudity!!!! I just think it's a terrible mission, and a very ungrateful job to her. I'm telling you that because I don't dislike her as an actress. In fact, I think she's a good actress and certainly she would deserve a better role! In the end there's a twist that could have been good, and could have worked if it wasn't so terribly acted! It's a shame but I can't score it more than 2/10 (extra point for Claudia Vieira's nudity included)! And it's a shame because I was expecting something better, at least in the same line of quality of other recent Portuguese movies like CALL GIRL or ARTE DE ROUBAR! These ones I appreciated!