bodomo

This movie has an interesting, albeit somewhat formulaic, film-noir story as its foundation.

However, the movie ended up being too tedious to watch because of the excessively long segments devoted to hammering the same message time and again.

For instance, the wake and burial of one of the characters includes some creative twists---but ends up taking ~40 minutes of the film, so long before it moves on people in the audience start checking their watches.

This could have been of "City of god" caliber, but will never be. I'm not sure why it reached such a cult status in Colombia.

This is a long miniseries (6 episodes of 90 min. each) for so little content.

In its general structure, a new case gets investigated and solved in each episode, while the same Dantesque super serial killer keeps getting closer and closer to our hero.

The actors are all right and, in particular, the women are gorgeous. But the script is so boring and uninspiring that no amount of acting talent can really save it. Pseudoerudite references to Dante's Divina Commedia litter the landscape, in a failed attempt to get close to successful works such as "The rule of four", "The Da Vinci code" and "The Dante club". Watching the characters' interactions in excruciating detail is like watching paint dry -- e.g., when an inspector asks a subordinate to perform some background task as part of an investigation, we see *every* unimportant word that passes between them, with no irrelevant details spared as the script struggles to fill the long available time.

I see this film as director Paul Leuer's attempt to create something along the lines of Jim Jarmusch's "broken flowers": a traveling tour de force around the life of a middle-aged protagonist, who knows that he has to make changes and meets with more or less absurd circumstances in the process.

unfortunately, Leuer is not Jarmusch (or Fellini), and Thomas Lennon is no Bill Murray. Lennon's facial expressions, in sequences in which the audience is supposed to laugh, lack any range and make me think of a bovine mammal with a bad case of constipation. there's very little sentiment coming through.

the rest of the cast valiantly do what they can with such an uninspiring script---not to mention the dismal ending, that is as predictable as unlikely. trying to get something out of this movie is bound to be an exercise in futility.