Movie Review: Nueve Reinas
Apr 24th, 2008 by admin
- Director: Fabian Bielinsky
- Genre: Crime/Thriller
- Year: 2000
I love Con films. I do not have it in me to ever be able to pull off a con like a con man, oustide of a harmless joke, but I admire (and loathe, in a twisted sort of combination) those that can consistantly pull it off without a cinch of guilt. Whatching a movie about con men, however, is always very entertaining.
Going in, you already know one thing for certain, when dealing with a con film, you know somebody, or some people, are going to get stabbed in the back. And when most everbody in the film could potentially be pulling the hood over somebody else, this film becomes an exciting run with numerous twists.
Having paired up after an accidental run in, two men decide to work together as a team for a day and in the process stumble into an opportunity to make an obsene amount of money selling a forged sheet of stamps. But as one may expect, things do not go quite as planned…or do they?
You really must watch this movie to enjoy it and no, the surprise ending is not really that much of a surprise, because of what I mentioned at the beginning of this review. But that does not matter, the fun of this film is not in unexpected twists, but the complexity of the game these people choose to play, and their intricate webs which they fix in order to one-up each other.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Notes: Spanish with English subtitles. Some language (which if you don’t speak Spanish, you may not even pick up).