English title: The Secret in Their Eyes.
A justice agent is put in charge of a case of rape and murder. He befriends the victim's husband and promises to catch the killer. The agent feels a certain attraction to his boss, a woman. Also, his assistant is a drunk. The case continues to affect his life even after the killer is caught.
This is a horrible movie, and just as horrible is the realization that I am almost alone in this assessment. It won awards, and is currently at the 143º position on IMDB's list of top rated films. I will not bother to write my considerations about it (watching it has been trouble enough), but Metala84's review points out some important deficiencies in the plot (warning: spoilers ahead):
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The plot of the movie is horrible. Even TV series have more believable "investigations". Finding a killer after watching a few pictures in an old family album? Seriously? Hey what's wrong and so suspicious in admiring a beautiful girl you know from your childhood that makes you a murder suspect? Okay lets put this aside. So our murder suspect writes barely understandable coded letters to his mothers, containing the names of his favorite football players. Who does that? And a few drunks in a bar decode them and here the main characters catch the suspect right away at the next football game on a stadium with thousands of people. Just like that - as soon as they arrive there. Then, how do you get a confession from him? Easy. Get your boss, a beautiful woman, to tell him that his penis is small. There you go, he puts off his pants and shows her she's wrong and also confesses the murder. Piece of cake.
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The rest of his/her review raises a few other points which made me think, but I am not so sure I agree exactly with him/her on them. Regardless of that, the fact remains that this is a lousy film.
Rating: 20
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