Recently, during a trip to Peru, my home country, I went to the cinema to watch the most recent local film production "Una sombra en el frente" or "A Shadow in the Front."
I did it for two reasons:
A) One of my nieces, a great actress, have an small role in the film.
B) Watching the Trailer it looked as having good photography.
It was two hours and twenty minutes of my life absolutely wasted.
This film, directed -if the word can be used- by Augusto Tamayo, a peruvian filmmaker, is a perfect example of dilapidated resources: in money, performances and film.
After the first hour you don't have a clue of what is the conflict of the main character, what is his obstacle, what is his goal... after one hour!
The most saddest thing is that, apart of a series of scenes that goes to nowhere, you can see many good actors and actress -and a lot of bad ones-, struggling with a poorly written script, trying to do their best.
The main character, played by a good actor, and who in the end you discover that it was the hero, is simply boooooring and you never get a connection with him. So, no matter what wonders or not he does, you simply don't care.
I can waste many lines and time with more details about why this movie is so bad but having wasted 2 hours and 20 minutes (and the directors cut had 3 hours and 30 minutes) I'll not do it.
Please, don't ask me to attend another Peruvian film of this sort.
The problem is not, as the Peruvian filmmakers constantly say, "the lack of support from the government to the local cinema industry."
The problem is that they, the filmmakers, sucks.
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