Synopsis: A coroner is called from abroad to establish whether a dead woman's body is that of a missing Senate aide whose boyfriend is being accused of her murder. Other evidence points to a ring of corrupt politicians whose misdeeds said aide had witnessed.
Appraisal: This is an awful film from all angles it is analyzed. The plot hardly makes any sense(e.g. why is it that associating the dead body to the missing woman would be of so much value to the corrupt ones?), several characters' behaviors are completely absurd (e.g. one shady Senate employee tries to corrupt the coroner while inside a crowded airplane of all places; a prostitute witnesses a man pull a gun to the coroner and still cannot wipe a blissful expression from her face; this list could go on forever), the technological references are at least ten years outdated (e.g. the coroner asks for the "negatives"), sex is as gratuitous as in a pornographic movie -- no, I lie: it's more gratuitous -- but incomparably less explicit and exciting; etc. If this film's writer/director was trying to make one of the worst films of all times out of one of the most candent subjects in Brazil in all times, he has largely succeeded. This is so bad even "Mystery Science Theater 3000" would reject it.
Rating: 3
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