“The Siege”: Natalia “Wick” Molina

No script, no film. Even better: without well-stitched seams, the plot ends throwing doubts, here many. We start with Dani portrayed as an interventionist police officer who believes in her job and only at times acts in character in an environment of macho and macho colleagues. The newcomer will not keep them awake, at least that’s what they thought, because about fifteen minutes after entering the unit for evicting some squatters, the viewer already knows that she is not stupid and that she is hitting all their noses with two ovaries with something they did not expect. John Wick, but for a lady with almost no cold cuts. And that’s where the party begins, which you don’t really get into because of the many inevitable questions, partly the result of no small coincidences. If a hole appears in the room where the trafficker and three agents are fighting where you hide the money, if she sneaks in there, listens and records the conversation, well, that’s fine, we’re in a movie and don’t think so hard, but it could do in many other ways. Getting her caught was out of the question or the movie was going to hell.

Catch her, yes, but because she’s a smart girl, she slips away and the rest of the recording will be run, run, I’ll catch up with you, although not without exaggeration. Allegedly, real facts are required and it is already known that, if ua thriller A Korean (or John Wick) usually takes a hundred or two hundred bastards, that doesn’t seem to be the case. Corpses, the righteous. For those who do not like the outcome, let them take a look. And the manager? Vivas’ craft is not even mentioned, although he is jointly and severally responsible for not tailoring the script better. The action takes place in a building in the suburbs, from which French cinematography usually unfolds in its saturation Banlieu, and optimizes spaces, moves the camera briskly, although without dizziness, and even flirts with elements close to terror. He doesn’t guess so much in the direction of the actors. The fact that they dress like policemen is not enough to give them a character like the cassock of old priests, they need something more, above all to believe in their characters. Brujule put B series a la John Carpenter, but lacks class.

“SIEGE”

Spain-Mexico. in 2023

Director: Miguel Angel Vivas.

Performers: Natalia de Molina. Natalia de Molina, Bella Agossou, Francisco Reyes, Fran Cantos, Chani Martín, Jorge Kent, Óscar Eribo, Efraín Rodríguez.

thriller

99 minutes.