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No Rest for the Wicked

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Inspector Santos drinks too much and works too little after he is demoted to the missing persons unit. His life gets worse when he is implicated in a triple homicide in a club, and he is forced to track down the one witness who managed to escape.
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Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter 10/05/2011
A hard-boiled Spanish police thriller about a good cop gone bad hits the genre spot. Go to Full Review
Jonathan Holland Variety 10/05/2011
Film noir and contempo Spain make a near-perfect match in the explosive No Rest for the Wicked. Go to Full Review
Pere Vall Fotogramas 06/14/2022
Too much rest for the wicked spectator. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
Nuria Vidal Fotogramas 06/14/2022
4/5
The first 15 minutes, seeing Coronado lost that night, are, without a doubt, the best Urbizu has filmed in his career. If only he could've carried it through the end. [Full review in Spanish] Go to Full Review
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05/30/2020 Superb Madrid crime thriller See more 07/21/2018 Tense Spanish film noir directed by Enrique Urbizu with a terrific performance by Jose Coronado. See more 01/20/2015 Winding and intense modern-day suspense film featuring a true anti-hero. Admittedly I had no idea where this was going for at least half the film, but I stuck with it out of curiosity and my affinity for anti-heroes and unhappy endings. The subject of the film slowly materializes and shifts from a cop-gone-bad film, in which we know very little about said cop and yet don't need to know to like/dislike him, to a bit of a suspense/thriller at the very end, when the full revelations of who is what come to the screen. Definitely a good ride if you are into this sort of thing and don't expect everything to be spelled out for you right away; not formulaic, but meandering in a little too slow but good way. The officials pursuing him are dogged, but undercooked, if you will, and how they arrive on the scene at the end of the film has to be assumed. In the end, however, just before the credits role, the movie becomes a cautionary tale of modern day European fears, something that is disturbing on a few levels. See more 03/09/2014 PRO: José Coronado's commanding performance! CON: Almost an hour and a half of mind numbing, uber boring police procedural! See more 11/06/2013 Sube y baja hasta cierto punto. La profundidad del personaje toma toda la pelicula pra el. See more 08/04/2013 hard to follow plot, pretty convoluted. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Inspector Santos drinks too much and works too little after he is demoted to the missing persons unit. His life gets worse when he is implicated in a triple homicide in a club, and he is forced to track down the one witness who managed to escape.
Director
Enrique Urbizu
Producer
Álvaro Augustin, Gonzalo Salazar-Simpson
Screenwriter
Michel Gaztambide, Enrique Urbizu
Production Co
Audiovisual Aval SGR, Canal+ España, AXN, Telecinco Cinema
Genre
Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
European Spanish
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 18, 2013
Runtime
1h 44m
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