Todos tenemos un plan (Ana Piterbarg, 2012)

Everybody has a Plan takes Viggo Mortensen back to Argentina, where he spent a part of his childhood, and I consider this of note simply because it highlights how few Hollywood stars can actually operate credibly in other languages. The film itself, however, doesn't offer much else of value. In it, Mortensen plays twin brothers of contracting personalities and lives, one of whom dies and whose life is then assumed by the other. It's a wearyingly downbeat affair in a bayou-like setting, serving up existentialist grief, but not quite managing to get to a point. Mortensen is always watchable, of course, but the whole chokes under its sombreness. The arch lunacy of another film which starts with a similar premise, Dead Ringers, is missed. 

5/10