No Rest for the Wicked

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No Rest for the Wicked

2011

1h 44m

Mystery & Thriller

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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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Jonathan Holland

Variety

Film noir and contempo Spain make a near-perfect match in the explosive No Rest for the Wicked.

Oct 5, 2011

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Deborah Young

The Hollywood Reporter

A hard-boiled Spanish police thriller about a good cop gone bad hits the genre spot.

Oct 5, 2011

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Pere Vall

Fotogramas

Too much rest for the wicked spectator. [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 14, 2022

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Nuria Vidal

Fotogramas

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]

Rated: 4/5

Jun 14, 2022

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Superb Madrid crime thriller

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Tense Spanish film noir directed by Enrique Urbizu with a terrific performance by Jose Coronado.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/27/23

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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.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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PRO: José Coronado's commanding performance! CON: Almost an hour and a half of mind numbing, uber boring police procedural!

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/23

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Audience Member

Sube y baja hasta cierto punto. La profundidad del personaje toma toda la pelicula pra el.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/05/23

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hard to follow plot, pretty convoluted.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/06/23

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Pedro Marí Sánchez

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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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