Gun City

2018 [SPANISH]

Action / Adventure / Crime / History / Thriller

18
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 45% · 7 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 45%
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 4523 4.5K

barcelona, spain cabaret police corruption train robbery military weapons 1920s

Plot summary

Barcelona, ​​Spain, 1921. A tough cop from Madrid arrives in the city to locate, under the suspicious scrutiny of corrupt local police officers, a significant amount of military weaponry stolen from a train, allegedly by revolutionary anarchists.

Director

Dani de la Torre Photo
Dani de la Torre

Top cast

William Miller Photo
William Miller as García Serrano
Mercedes Castro Photo
Mercedes Castro as Jefa de Turno
José Manuel Poga Photo
José Manuel Poga as Mallorquín
Albert Pérez Photo
Albert Pérez as Manco
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
1.05 GB
1280*534
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles es  
24 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds ...
2.01 GB
1920*800
Spanish 2.0
NR
Subtitles es  
24 fps
2 hr 6 min
Seeds 5

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by proctorluke 7 / 10

It's OK, and you'll get through to the end, some plot twists, but a bit convoluted, and a few hard to ignore faults

Firstly, I definitely liked the movie, and the acting was spot on, from a largely veteren and well-known (at least by Spanish standards) cast.The plot is intriguing, has enough twists and turns to keep you interested (though a few seem confusing, and some poor editing choices therefore feels may have been at play), and it does all come together to an engaging denouement at the final scene, with a decent ending as well.However a couple of the flaws. Chiefly the setting in terms of location, it is so obviously filmed in Galicia and not in Catalonia by anyone who's ever even just been to Spain, that it becomes at times off-putting. The greenery, level of rain, architecture of the urban locations, the sea obviously the Atlantic and not the Mediterranean etc. all contribute to finding it difficult to escape into the setting and believing it; i don't see why if Galicia was chosen for filming that the same film couldn't have been set in Vigo, A Coruña or Ferrol, and if it did have to be Barcelona un order to make the plot be more sellable to foreign audiences, then more outdoor filming should have taken place in Catalonia. Secondly the guns are all over the place in terms of what weapons were available in Spain at the time, too much so to be believable, and again it distances one from engaging into the setting. A final criticism would be that the fights although well chereographed, are filmed too much in the style of peaky blinders.Taking all those points aside however, still a solid film, and better than a lot out there on Netflix.
Reviewed by borgolarici 7 / 10

Overall, not bad!

1920's Barcelona is an interesting setting for a movie, unusual but interesting.The plot is very blandly based on real events like a string of strikes, social tensions and internal squabbles in the anarchist faction. The 'brave rebels' and the 'evil policemen' thing is a bit trite but the characters are likeable so i forgive that. Special mention for 'El Tisico', a secondary character who is mental but funny
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