El silencio del pantano

Slow. Slow. Predictable. Splatter. Without a story. I do not recommend it. Unless you are a slave of the Casa de Papel. But it is not worth it.

First of all I love Pedro Alonso as an actor from La Casa De Papel and even Gran Hotel. He is such an amazing actor. The story was indeed promising at first. A crime writer who murders. And then the story unfolds, there are now cartels, corruption, gangs. I felt like in the middle there are too many things happening which gives a strong feeling of disconnect. I really wish they had stick to the initial story line. I appreciated the cinematography very much but sorry the storyline is not as strong.

Cast and starring of Pedro Alonso, versus bad fiction and time waste. Colour grading wasn't so high quality but 'watchable' but if you want to watch a good movie, you should go for another one. Role playing of Alonso was really nice, as a psycho and murder psychologic things. Also gives some ideas and mottos to audience. But no satisfacting watch for a masterpiece enthusiasm. Also directing and visual things were not awful, just parts and scenes were so long and sometimes artificial.

Set in City of Valencia, Valencia , east to Spain , capital of the Comunidad Autonoma . "Q¨ (Pedro Alonso) is a famous writer of big success and well respected by his enthusiasts , but in real life he's a series killer . This nasty murderer excecutes a criminal spree , one after another , he is coldly killing their victims . He's a solitary man who has a bad relation with his younger brother Nacho (Raul Prieto) . He carries out ominous murders and writing about it as a fiction , and eventually getting magnificent critics of the latest work about the murder of a cabman . Finally , he chooses a known victim called Ferrán Carretero (José Angel Egido) , an ex-counselor of the Comunidad Autonoma , ex-congressman and today a teacher of Applied Economics in the University of Valencia . Then Q kidnapping him and moving him into an old family house in the middle of City of Valencia's marsh and outside the city . Carretero's disappearance pays attention of La Puri (Carmina Barrios) , who usually does dark business with Carretero , as well as Carretero's boss Isabel (Maite Sandoval) , a known politician in the Consellería of Valencia. La Puri sends her second-in-command (Nacho Fresneda) , Falconetti (this name pays tribute to William Smith's Falconetti from Rich man , poor man) to locate Carretero, the latter is a relentless murderer who pursues Q without mercy . As the hit man named Falconetti receives the assignment to kill him but things get complicated and happenings go wrong .

This is an interesting film based on the novella of the same name by Juanjo Braulio, it packs thrills , raw energy , adult subject matter with lots of violence and awesome interpretations . Dealing with a quiet criminal , he is a writer reconverted in an author of crime novel books who becomes involved in a dark cobweb of corruption to get more money and power and spontaneously meets sleazy characters in the middle of a heinous card game . Only at the end , in the last moment of the movie , we are aware of his peculiar redemption. A decent noir/thriller film concerning a hit man and with sinister roles mingled in scandal of corruption , including drug selling , money launderer and reconstructing new buildings for neighborhood . An extremely tough movie burdened by cruel murders and seedy characters with a creepy starring who is more killer than the stories he writes . As our peculiar protagonist has a compulsion to murder what eventually he translates to his novels , but he ultimately becomes involved in a perilous mouse and the cat game where nobody is safe . Nice acting from Pedro Alonso in the main role , he's a two-fisted hit-man who proceeds grisly assassinations and along the way annihilating witnesses , but finally to be trapped unintentionally between two violent and corrupt forces . Plenty of intrigue, atmospheric music by composer Zeltia Montes , colorful cinematography and grisly killings until the surprising finale . It is a very violent movie , depressing charismatic , adequately set , but always strong , with a perfect abstraction of a climate of moral misery to game with the cold environment and appropriate scenarios well photographed by cameraman Isaac Vila . Pedro Alonso gives a good acting as a ruthlessly hit-man who begins a race against time to stop those who want to chase him , he is a cold-blooded psychopath and lonely man because he knows that his activity is really dangerous , who learns about his work and that's why there aren't witnesses . Pedro Alonso is a fine but not very known actor. He is one of the young Spanish actors that became popular for his role in Money Heist or La Casa de Papel . He's well accompanied by a good cast , such as : Carmina Barrios as a powerful gypsy drug-lord , Nacho Fresneda as his second hand and best man , José Ángel Egido as a former politician of long carrier , Àlex Monner , Raúl Prieto and brief appearance by Luis Zahera as a taxi driver.

The motion picture was professionally directed by Marc Vigil , though being slow-moving and containing some flaws and gaps . Marc is a good director who often uses to work for television , making several episodes from popular series , such as : El Ministerio del Tiempo , Malaka , Vis a Vis ,Vivir sin permiso , Nasdrovia , Aguila Roja , Gominolas , Niño Santo, Aída , 7 vidas , among others . Rating : 6/10 , passable and acceptable.

The movie starts with a great premise: a sociopath writer, a swamp both actual and metaphorical and a power struggle in the mob. The performances are great too. Sadly the plot starts wobbling around aimlessly in the second part, hinting at social issues of various kind without really making a point about any of it. Overall an interesting watch but not a revolutionary one