Although the plot seemed a little far-fetched I was determined to watch this as Gil, Noriega and Amenabar (loosely). I did find it watchable and intriguing whilst it was on but cracks were showing, as a fan of Noriega's I'd say it's the weakest I've seen him, the character just didn't seem that convincing, surely a writer could do better things with his writer's block than crosswords. The two-faced villain seems to have no tangible motive, I think Molla salvages something from this character but I just don't get him nor understand his insanity.All in all I think at this time Gil was trying to make another Abre Los Ojos, probably wasn't the best way to go.

Holy crap! What a terrible, terrible Spanish thriller! I've had it for about four years and finally started it the other night. I watched an hour or so before heading to bed. I was pretty intrigued by the whole thing. I finished it last night and couldn't believe where I stopped it the night before. Literally, I stopped it the second before the movie went completely downhill.Like I said, I was pretty intrigued and curious as to where this mystery was going but stopped it right when Simon receives the package in the bar. I picked up when he opens up the package to reveal a laser gun and then plays a "menacing" game of laser tag. Whew! Then the big reveal is that the whole thing is a terrorist plot by role playing game nerds. WHEW! You can tell the Spanish industry was definitely behind director Mateo Gil (co-writer of Amenabar's two big previous hits). There is an excellent score and great photography. But this scenario reeks of silliness. How anyone sat through the last 40 minutes with a straight face is beyond me.

This little film from Spain has a story to tell, too bad it takes place mostly in the beginning. It deals with hidden witches covens which are scattered throughout Sevile Spain and it has as its main character, a pseudo-intellectual who writes boring crossword puzzles for the main paper, "El Hergizito". Soon he finds himself in a mysterious world of terror which he can not fathom. I was quite interested until the story became a cliche taken from American films and then it became just average on the whole. Most of the derailment took place in a scene where there are numerous men in hoods shooting laser guns in a 'game" that really looks stupid, from there, we learn that the coven of 'Satanas" wants to destroy Seville. His former roommate is the brain child of a group of degenerate loser and misfits, whom he later blows up in another absurd scene, (why kill them off?). The ending is typical and even expected, because he finds the evil guy and shoots him dead, and at the end, it was all just a novel, but we aren't sure are we?

Definitivatly, the sicology indeer, the critizace of the Catholicism, the bored, and the great perform of Eduardo Noriega (as usual), make this film and exciting game when the pieces are the human beings, with rules and power, money, and the infancy´s desorders. See this picture, you will enjoy, and Noriega is better than almost every pretty face in Hollywood.