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Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

dratva1 I wasn't excepting anything special before I started to watch "Plata quemada". I just knew that it was an Argentinean movie and it has won the Goya price. Only good movies win this price. After the beginning of the movie (the underground scene) I thought that it would be another stupid gay romance. Later, step by step, the movie became more and more interesting. Great plot, excellent actors (and actress), wonderful music. As one of the IMDb users says, Eduardo Noriega's acting is similar to the River Phoenix's one. For example in "My private Idaho". Who knows if his voices were symptoms of mental defect or small epileptic fits etc.? When the movie was ending I was thinking that it was one of the best movies I had ever seen. But when appeared the information that it was based on a true story my breath was taken away. Next half an hour, I was not able to do anything, except to think about the movie. I reacted this way just when I had seen "Dancer in the dark". It is not one of the best movies I have ever seen, but the best one ever.

fuzzybunn An excellent movie where everything is beautiful - from the crumbling, claustrophobic backdrops of the antagonists' hiding places, the actors and the background music.Besides showing an unusual homosexual relationship, the film also questions the relationship between sex, love and violence - even when the main characters turn "straight" violence and death hang in the air, with scenes sex often interspliced with those of death and agony.More importantly, you can't help but feel sorry - and yet almost envious - for the doomed (and did I mention beautiful?) lovers as they slide towards their inevitable end, just for the incredible passion they have for each other.

jotix100 Marcelo Pineyro, one of the best directors from Argentina, surprises with every new effort. Working on this film with Marcelo Figueras, he also contributed to bring Ricardo Piglia's novel to the screen with unexpected results. The novel was based on a real criminal case that happened in Buenos Aires in the 1960's. The two men at the center of the story are gay lovers who happened to be criminals. These two men share a passion that comes across on the screen like no other in recent memory. Angel, the Spaniard, wants to go to New York and Nene, his lover, wants to comply, but first they must attend to the assault of a vehicle that brings money to one bank. During the heist Angel is shot on his shoulder. Things are so hot for all the people involved, they flee to Uruguay. This was perhaps a miscalculation, because they are being followed by the Argentine police, that is working with local authorities in apprehending all the criminals. Nene is restless. He decides to leave the safe house, and finds Giselle, a beautiful woman who falls in love with him. At this point, we are of two minds, is Nene really cheating on Angel, or is he trying to use Giselle into providing another place where they can hide? The violent end comes in a finale that doesn't have anything to envy to any other movies of the genre.The best thing in the film are the two leads. Leonardo Sbaraglia is one of the best actors that have come out of Argentina lately. He does an amazing job in portraying Nene. Eduardo Noriega, is also a Spanish actor that has done excellent work before and he shows his range in a magnificent performance as Angel. Leticia Bredice is Giselle, the young woman in Montevideo who befriends, then fall in love with Nene.The film proves Marcelo Pineyro is a voice to be reckoned with and who has an enormous talent for giving his audience his best.

Imhotep77 This is an Argentinean version of "Bonnie & Clyde", and more appropriately, "Dog Day Afternoon" with excellent acting from all and sexy tango music. Unfortunately, those qualities are not enough to raise the overall quality of the film from a middling level. For me, there are two major problems. One is the meandering aimlessness of the plot. Given that this is based closely on real life events, so we are told, there really isn't much that can be done if the filmmaker chose not to dramatize the facts by taking some artistic licenses. The other is the relationship between the "twins". Many reviewers mentioned the "passionate love" between them and I just don't think the movie has shown us the reasons. All I see are two psychotic murderers with no conscience in an unhealthy codependent relationship. As much as I want to like those two antiheroes, they are just too unsavory and unsympathetic for my taste.The movie starts w/ them not being able to be intimate because of Angel's problem and by the end we still don't know what snapped in Angel except that he is loco, literally. No doubt, the only reason why they are so devoted to each other is because they are both certifiable and so they understand each other. Well, that just doesn't make me feel any more resonance for the characters. So, we are just told they love each other so much they will die for the other and to accept that without showing any reason why that is so just does not cut it. Toward the end, I was praying the police would just come quickly and kill them all to get it over with. That's not good for a movie. Many of the choices they make as criminals are reckless and plainly stupid. They might have got away with the loot had they use their brain just a little. Of course, it is a true story and that was how it happened so that is not the movie's problem. The fact that it doesn't delve into the psychological underpinning of the twin's love for each other is.