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"The Trail of Bones" is very reminiscent of the style of well-known Spanish thriller series and Álvaro Morte is also a familiar face since "House of Money". This is a successful mixture of mystery, thriller, some action and a thriller romance. The setting is excellently chosen, the main character Mario played by Álvaro Morte is an oddball loner who works in a municipal lost and found office. His passion is to breathe a second life into old lost items and, ideally, return them to their former owners.

The location alone, a former train station that serves as Mario's home and workplace, is impressive. As are the many selected props. After a gruesome discovery in a suitcase, he is gripped and determined to find out what it is all about. Especially when it quickly becomes clear that the police are no longer interested, as no concrete evidence of a crime has been found, Mario takes the search into his own hands. His character is very clever but also very driven by his emotions, perhaps a little stereotypical, a Spanish daredevil who impulsively doesn't give a damn at times, almost naively getting himself into dangerous situations. Even if not everyone can share this approach, it still remains credible. All the actors do a good job, but the beautiful María Eugenia Suárez as "Sara" carries the movie together with Álvaro Morte.

It is not only a well-written crime story with a realistic theme, but also a desperate human love story that takes risky turns from the very beginning. "The Trail of Bones" is particularly characterized by its dense atmosphere. What begins gloomy, dark, sometimes disgusting and scary, turns into sun-drenched images with a touch of "hope and a perfect world". The score supports the respective moments. Especially when it alternates between quiet passages and subtle action. This keeps the story varied and exciting.

Unfortunately, "The Trail of Bones" is not quite perfect. On the one hand, the very good pace of the story is somewhat at the expense of the detailed character sketches. We learn relatively little about Mario and almost nothing about Sara's past. The same goes for the supporting characters. However, this is justifiable, as in a length of 1 hour 47 minutes, compromises have to be made and the overall story works on its own. A somewhat unfortunate choice is the lack of a time window - such as "eight months later" for time jumps. This would have been important for a logical and coherent presentation. If you can figure it out for yourself and don't attach too much importance to it, you can still enjoy the movie.

I would normally give it 7.5/10. Due to the few partly unfounded bad reviews, I have decided to give it 10/10. Because I watched the movie twice, due to the logic holes that some people criticized. But I have to say, if you pay close attention, it's coherent and apart from the missing time period as described above, there are no holes in the logic.

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Worth seeing - A little hidden gem in the Spanish thriller genre. A gripping, entertaining story with an emotional ending.

Lost and found , in all its forms, from birth to death, a secluded little spanish dramathriller, about a man that works in the citys department of lost and found items, a real nerdy job searching for the lost items owners, an obsesiveness occurs when a skelleton of a baby is found in a red suitcase drawn out of the river.

A well made, highly spano-european filmstyle, with its archtypical spanish male figurine, a well written crimestory of highly realistic issues, a human trafficking tale that happens everywhere in the world cloaked under the name of ''adoption''

but its also a desperate human lovestory, that takes risky turns from the start. The production design, the location layout , the multitude of weird lost gadgets, the musical score and some exclusively made filmatographic tricks makes this , along with a decently acting cast, a hidden gem of spanish language film.

There is something magic about the light and a feeling of a misty cold in the dark that i cannot explain, therefore have a look yourself, a recommend from the grumpy old man.

It started very interesting! Casa de Papel Main Actor, beautiful main actress. Wow. Mysterious Suitcase is found. Main story on paper not bad, but the script is just awful. So many things that are simply stupid. No Logic at all. The actors give their best, but the plot is simply not believable at toooo many points during the story. Also its more a drama than a crime story. No deep connections, no conversations, no logic. No thrill. Its normal to see situations in movies where peope do not act like real humans, just for the sake of the story, but here it happens too often. Every 5 minutes bad decisions are made. As the viewer we dont even know why, what are the actors motivations? Why should we care? It's a brutal mess. Especially the last 15minutes are crazy stupid and bad ending.. Save yourself and watch something else!

Alvaro Morte (Money Heist) and Veronica Echegui (Yo soy la Juani) star in this disturbing thriller in which an employee of a dark 'lost and found' office enters the dark underworld of human trafficking, organized mafias and illegal adoptions. One day he receives a strange suitcase with terrible contents inside. Mario decides to investigate on his own. Following the trail of the suitcase and helped by police woman Helena (Verónica Echegui) he comes across Sara (Eugenia China Suárez), a young woman trapped since she was a child in a human trafficking organization. A network that treats people as if they were... objects. How far would you go for something lost?

¨Lost and Found¨ is a complex and twisted story directed by Jorge Dorado (El embarcadero) dealing with a sinister and eerie investigation leads a deranged man to a dangerous prostitution and trafficking ring. Jorge Dorado's brain-twisting thriller , from the beginning, the film keeps the audience interested, hooking you immediately with a strong start. The film contains tension , thriller , drama , mystery and plot twists , including decent suspense with tense sequences especially in its final part, in a unexpected denouement, near of the end. Acceptable thriller in which nothing is the way it seems , the atmosphere is already tense and the twists and turns are the best part of this movie . Indeed, the starting point of the feature film is really strange with the discovery of a suitcase that contains a baby's belongings, but also his little corpse. While the police decide to close the case very quickly, the man who is in charge of the lost and found - interpreted with just the right amount of darkness in his eyes by the Professor of La casa de papel Álvaro Morte - seeks to know the truth about this little being forgotten by all. The atmosphere of this first part is as dark as it should be and offers an investigation with multiple ramifications. Unfortunately for the viewer, the mystery is very quickly solved by the improvised investigator and the film then slides into the denunciation of the prostitution systems of the great luxury hotels. The film evokes all forms of reification of the human being by people motivated solely by the lure of profit, but the heaviness of the subject really spoils the viewer's pleasure.

The cast is pretty well, stars Alvaro Morte, he gives a good performance as Mario, a man with a dark past who long ago decided to stay away from people until one day he receives a suitcase with human remains in his lost and found office, along with the beautiful China Suárez and the always adequate Verónica Echegui and other secondaries in minor roles as Daniel Aráoz, Andy Gorostiaga, Maitane San Nicolás, Zorion Eguileor.

Directed without much originality like everything we can now watch on television, ¨Objetos¨ never justifies at all its presence on the big screen by any formal mastery. Even the actors, most of whom have worked a lot on the small screen, seem to be not very concerned by what they are playing. The director states that the title of the film is about the fact of "trading in objects or trading in people as if they were objects", a play on words in which the spectator is introduced as the story acquires a suffocating suspense.

¨Objetos¨ was uneven but professionally directed by Jorge Dorado. He's a good craftsman who has shot decent films and TV series,such as: Mindscape, Gigantes, El Ministerio del Tiempo, The head, Feria: La luz más oscura, El embarcadero (The Pier), among others. Objetos (Lost and found) , rating: 6/10.

This is a good try, given the usual low quality of Spanish productions. But, it is still a really bad movie. A thriller with elements of classic noir, the story is plagued by the bad acting of main cast, and a dense and false drama, presumptuous and full of clichés. The worst is the complete lack of consistency, absurdities and unbelievable situations and behaviors of the main parts, which constantly break the suspension of disbelief. As usual in Spanish movies, the depiction of police work is ludicrous and unrealistic.

The best part, the Chinese guys in the very first minutes. The other actors are, simply, not good, plain and without life, lacking chemistry among them, character development, or ability to create empathy with the viewer. Maybe the problem is that they tried to present people, situations and dialogues that are culturally so far from Spanish culture. Perhaps, on the script in paper, it works; but, when filmed, just doesn't work. I guess that a Hollywood remake, solving the holes and inconsistencies, would work as a routinary, but nice thriller.

Overall, a bad, boring, slow, and stupid movie. To avoid.