Intacto

TwoShedsJackson

Interesting Spanish film, Max von Sydow is in it. It runs on the premise that luck itself is a commodity that can be gambled, traded or taken away from people - well made for what must have been a low budget film, and quite original.

The only place I've seen it for rent is Laser of course, if you see it there I recommend it.

SweetBirdOfTruth

liked this. well, more than i thought i would. the basic plot - luck as a tradable commodity - put me off but i figured i should make an effort .

ok, so is v predictable - i actually laughed when

she burst though the door and von sydow's gun clicked on an empty chamber,

gosh, i wasn't expecting that (not) - and quite stupid (has a v ... religious view of luck in places, you know, something bad happens, you escape, and you're considered lucky - hello? the plane i was in just crashed and you call that lucky? if i was really lucky the plane wouldn't have crashed, you moron!) and scarily like an episode of fantasy island (it was fantasy island, wasn't it, your man montalban and the dwarf?) but it looked purty and it's pace was enough to keep me watching. and von sydow has a face you could stare at and a voice that's marvelously deep.

while the basic plot is extremely stupid, i admire the fact that they didn't hollywood-ise it by even trying to explain how it works and just left it there. and if they can't be bothered even trying to explain it to me i think that that absolves me from any responsibility to think too hard about it after i've left the cinema