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Moscow Zero (2006)
Pure crap
I suffered the watching of this movie at Sitges Festival last month. If there would be a possibility of "unfilm" a movie to avoid its existence, this should be the first in the list. María Lidón isn't a director, she is just a dumb woman that pretends that holding a camera with the hand and shout "action" makes her a professional film maker. What a mistake! The movie itself is pointless and a total waste of good actors that could be doing something better in another project. Val Kilmer does nothing but place his face in front of the camera. His character don't have specific weight in the movie. The same thing can tell about Joss Ackland, Vincent Gallo or Joaquim De Almeida. It's a shame the way Rade Serbedzija's character has been written. WARNING SPOILERS
He spends most of the time alone in the tunnels talking with himself in the way (now I'm doing this, now I'm low of bats, I'll search in my bag, now I'm turning left, now I'm turning right...) only to bring the audience a clear idea about his actions. It's simply nonsense and proves the lack of talent of the director. END OF SPOILERS
The usual joke about this piece of garbage among the audience was that the title of the movie itself brought the clue about the rating everyone should give it: ZERO
Nos miran (2002)
Unoriginal
This film is, basically, "The X-Files meets Without a Trace". Easy explanation. A young boys sees her daughter been abducted by an eerie supernatural force and becomes a specialist about abducted people. In the same way as Mulder (even his partner/wife is redhead), he lives only for his job, don't take care of his family and no one believes his creepy theories. Finally he is abducted in the same way in the mood of protecting his relatives. It reminds the Mulder arc story from the beginning of the 1st Season to the end of the 7th. Norberto López Amado does an uninspired directing of this movie and wastes acting talent of all the cast (its a shame how Karra Elejalde looks on screen).
"Nos miran" is another unsuccessful try of doing a Spanish scary movie and the list is getting longer. Jaume Balagueró (Darkness, Fragile), Paco Plaza (Romasanta, Second Name) and Brian Yuzna's friends from Fantastic Factory (this is worst that the late films from Troma) should look for better scripts in order to satisfy the audience.