Wednesday 21 February 2018

Tardes para la ira (Raúl Arévalo, 2016)

A man whose girlfriend was killed in a jewellery store robbery eight years before sets out to hunt down all the possible perpetrators when the only member of the gang to have been caught is released from prison. Without knowing which of them was guilty of the murder, he loses whatever moral compass he had on the way.
The Fury of a Patient Man was abundantly rewarded in Spain's Goya awards, and it does have a certain complexity in its basic revenge scenario, with conscious decisions to steer away from the standard plot trajectory, but it's still just a revenge scenario, brutal and lacking in real-world consequences, and has little message beyond 'blood will have blood'.

5/10

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