Ebert

Everything is going very well until the aliens arrive. Then it goes downhill and becomes a pastiche. Why not continue with the natural disaster? Why turn it into a story without any basis? They literally lost their way. It's a shame. There is a tendency in today's world to abuse the viewer's credulity and think that they accept everything. That's not true. The absurd shocks and drives away viewers with some critical sense. I confess that I couldn't go on after the "alien cockroaches" appeared. It's silly, it's childish and it abuses the viewer's tolerance. We have to respect a threshold of credibility. No one is an idiot to accept certain nonsense.

I went to watch the film to see how Brazilian cinema is trying to make commercial films for a large audience. The plot is obvious, set in the middle class of São Paulo: suspicions of betrayal, robberies, assassination attempts, etc. I held firm with the intention of seeing what our authors think, whether it's a successful commercial film. There were many flaws in the storytelling, but I overlooked them, after all my purpose was to evaluate whether the film served the average Brazilian audience. It became more and more difficult due to the obviousness of the plot, until one of the men decided to consult a "Pai de santo" to bring his wife back home. The said "Pai de santo" then summons two "spirits" to haunt his wife. It was too much. Nobody can stand...

Argentines use this expression when they want to say that something or a situation is silly. My reaction to this film was this: How silly! From something very real: poisoning and environmental pollution by pesticides, a tangle is built with spirits, witches, transport of souls and many other nonsense. Something told me to stop watching the movie in the first half hour, but curiosity made me continue watching. What a waste of time! Don't make the same mistake I did. If you read this comment before seeing the movie, run away! The idea of mixing a real problem (environmental pollution) with nonsense about spiritism, lost souls and other "tonterias" results in a silly film. Beautiful locations, good performances, an efficient decoupage are of no use if the story being told is nonsense. Run!