Intacto

2001 [SPANISH]

Drama / Fantasy / Romance / Thriller

5
IMDb Rating 6.8/10 10 14111 14.1K

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Director

Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Photo
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo

Top cast

Pere Eugeni Font Photo
Pere Eugeni Font as Engominado
Max von Sydow Photo
Max von Sydow as Samuel
Leonardo Sbaraglia Photo
Leonardo Sbaraglia as Tomás
Mónica López Photo
Mónica López as Sara
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1003.08 MB
1280*544
Spanish 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 1
2.01 GB
1920*816
Spanish 5.1
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 48 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ccthemovieman-1 8 / 10

A Bit Confusing, But Entertaining & Visual

This Spanish film is a strange one, a hard one to follow story-wise, but visually striking and interesting most of the way. The fact is wasn't always easy to follow will help me want to watch this again to see if I can figure things out better.The story involves people with th ability to steal "luck" from other people and then taking it away from fellow takers. Make sense? I didn't think so. Despite the difficulty following and understanding everything, I still enjoyed this film. The DVD transfer is sharp, too, and has good sound. It's an intriguing film and, perhaps, I should have waited for a second viewing when I understood more things about the story. Suffice to say I thought enough of this film to buy it because I knew I'd be watching this multiple times.
Reviewed by Quicksand 8 / 10

Great Movie, Greater Script

The more I think about this film, the more I liked it. The script was extremely well-written, with appropriate twists and turns for each of the numerous characters-- not just the antagonist and one other, as usually happens.It's a great idea. What if Luck were a quantifiable commodity, and certain people had the ability to take it from others? What if such people were only one in a billion? The premise reminded me somewhat of "Unbreakable," but this movie has so many more complex characters and is so much better written-- yes, really.However, the more I think about this film, the more I realize how much I disliked the cinematography, editing, production design, and lighting. I know they probably didn't have a lot of money to spend, but a good DP isn't hard to find. Making much of the movie literally dark to go with the psychological darkness was a fine idea, but executed poorly. It's unfortunate.The script would make a great read, though, and I suspect that's why the film was able to be made. Those talking about "Adaptation" as an argument for a screenplay to be a legitimate piece of literature would do well to read "Intacto," and leave it at that.As a film, though, I'd still recommend it. Good job keeping Max von Sydow away from the other actors... he acts circles around them. But the others do okay too. 8/10.
Reviewed by pumaye 8 / 10

You cannot remain intact after seeing this

A masterpiece of the new wave of Spanish cinema that is invading the world in this new millennium, this strange, fascinating thriller has one of the greatest ideas of all times used very well till the end of the movie: imagine someone who has the power to steal good luck from other people and using it he may become powerful, but bored in the end. So he uses his wealth to research other people who has the same power or a similar one (people who has survived all sort of terrible accidents) to challenge them in a sort of Russian roulette. Max Von Sydow is the old concentration camp survivor that establish this "game", while other interesting faces of the Spanish scenario are his comrades in this trade over each other destiny that is gripping, tense and full of surprise until the end, when all comes full circle and you exit from the cinema conscious that you have seen a gem, a rare, rare gem.
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