Diagonaldi Very well executed

Kidskycom It's funny watching the elements come together in this complicated scam. On one hand, the set-up isn't quite as complex as it seems, but there's an easy sense of fun in every exchange.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Curt Watching it is like watching the spectacle of a class clown at their best: you laugh at their jokes, instigate their defiance, and "ooooh" when they get in trouble.

coldplayer-57213 This is a suspense movie of Spain. This story is set in 1980. One day, two girls go missing and are killed. In order to get a clue on the suspect, two policemen obtain information from a witness. However, there are rampant in lie and truth. So, Two policemen make an effort to arrest the murderer. I think that everywhere this movie represents 1980's atmosphere very well. So, If you are interested in this movie, please watch this movie.

Salvo Ciccia The similarities with the American TV series are embarrassing, I am surprised only one of the above reviews has mentioned it. The director should have put the TV series in the credits! This film sounds like a Spanish version of the first season of True Detective, as two moustached cops are investigating a bunch of murder-rapes of young women in a rice paddies area in north of Spain (Andalucía).Like in True detective season the little town is surrounded by wetlands of corruption and insanity. Even the supernatural - magic elements are copied.The story is highly predictable and conventional. The difference - beside the Country - is the period: here we are in 1980, with Spain in transition between fascism and democracy - with the characters deeply involved in the change.The director his trying is best to hide the similarities - like the use of drone shot.But even the finale remind us of the series True detective first season Enjoyable though - just like the series.

mitsoskont-41374 La isla mínima (known as Marshland to the Anglophones) at the surface resembles countless other crime films and stories. Two cops with very different personalities are summoned to an unfamiliar place in order to solve a crime and in the process they uncover dark secrets that lie under the small community. What makes the difference in this film however is how the filmmakers make use of the setting. The movie takes place in Spain during the Spanish transition to democracy some years after Franco's death.The two protagonists represent the different stances and political backgrounds. Pedro is an uptight cop with democratic convictions eager for the extinction of fascism in his country who is partnered with Juan an experienced cop who in this movie acts as a representative of Franco's regime. The two of them are called to investigation two missing girls in the Spanish countryside and to put aside their political differences.As a whodunit Marshland is a gripping and suspenseful movie with fine cinematography and the central mystery even though kinda formulaic preserves the viewer's interest till the finale. But at the relationship between the two leads and how this resonates with the political landscape of the 1980's Spain is where the central core of this story resides. For example Pedro, as the investigation progresses, comes at terms with the undemocratic and violent methods of Juan and makes compromises with his beliefs in order to solve a case which will allow him to advance his career.All in all I highly recommend Marshland if you want to watch an entertaining and intelligent mystery which scathingly comments on a turbulent period of the Spanish history.

fangorn-96980 Another film where men are all potentially rapists or murderers and women are all white doves or helpless does.It is really a dangerous world for a woman to live in, where around every corner there is a man waiting, interested in exploiting your purity and spoiling your wish of freedom.The historical setting of 1980 should not mislead: what is represented here is the alleged, unlikely universal bondage of womankind so dear to some cultural propaganda. A thin wire ties up every man, young or old, engaged in his main vocation: violence and exploitation of women, hopeless victims always portrayed as locked in cages: a home for a wife, a single-sex school for a female student, a guest-house for a inn-keeper, a boat for a fool.So women are captive, and men are the dogs overlooking them or the wolves preying on them, and even when men are supposed to seek for some justice in their behalf, they hide a past of violence, hatred and probably a prostate cancer.