First of all, I say that watching a film like this in a dubbed version, where the story is told in Oxford, it's a sin - just like smoking in a cancer hospital...
I went in to see it mainly to enjoy watching a "good old" crime-story like I used to watch from BBC television spoken in "real" English, and though it wasn't 100% then it was enjoyable. I had no idea about who is "Álex de la Iglesia" and I was surprised by how well written and directed the film presented, not only due to the story but as well the actors he'd found, and here more the stand-ins than the main-casts. Perfect details like hopeless out of date shaded glasses, old tweed jackets and semi-long hair, it all gave the final touch to the story that some times got stocked in small unnecessary scenes specially written for selling better to the Spanish marked.
I went in to see it mainly to enjoy watching a "good old" crime-story like I used to watch from BBC television spoken in "real" English, and though it wasn't 100% then it was enjoyable. I had no idea about who is "Álex de la Iglesia" and I was surprised by how well written and directed the film presented, not only due to the story but as well the actors he'd found, and here more the stand-ins than the main-casts. Perfect details like hopeless out of date shaded glasses, old tweed jackets and semi-long hair, it all gave the final touch to the story that some times got stocked in small unnecessary scenes specially written for selling better to the Spanish marked.