Heartbreak, entertainment and Angelina Jolie

It is difficult to find a movie theater in Madrid where

can be heard in its original version

It is also surprising since the plague began that it is released in commercially oriented American theaters.

There is ample room for independents, sometimes regrettable claims to authorship, tiny products, a lot of European and Asian cinema, but Hollywood and the

Every economic calculation and betting exclusively on the safe, they have kept their luxurious products with seven keys until the devil has left, without exposing himself in the least, in the assurance that their financial forecasts will be fulfilled when autumn and Christmas arrive, deviously convinced that they will make a great box if the public maintains the desire or the ritual of returning to theaters when the pandemic ends.

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Those who wish my death

possessed two baits for my interest. One was to contemplate again that beautiful woman who is Angelina Jolie. It is not clear to me if she is an efficient or excellent actress, but I do love to watch her, regardless of the quality of her characters. In my frivolous case,

towards certain figures of the

The other was to track down its director, Taylor Sheridan, illustrious screenwriter of

a film that I loved, in which he narrates the chase of a

on the verge of the dreaded retirement trying to hunt down two brothers who rob rural banks without realizing truce. The twisted plot of

was also invented

A very black film in which the drug cartels were as villainous as the police who persecute them.

Sheridan recounts here the affliction, vertigo and physical and mental self-punishment of a fire chief who blames herself for not having done enough to save the lives of some children in a fire.

A cornered boy, whose father has just been killed by two dark

the service of a corporation of corrupt politicians and businessmen, will offer this tortured woman the opportunity to redeem herself.

It is not a dazzling film, it pretends to be original in the construction of the characters and their behavior, but sometimes it incurs conventions and useless repetition of things that were already described. But it has the value of entertainment, of infecting you with the anguish suffered by the harassed protagonists. Likewise, he has the merit of inventing a memorable pair of evildoers, two

soulless capable of torturing a woman who is about to give birth, people who are very scary in their relentlessness and pragmatism. There is visual power portraying the breathtaking landscapes of the Delaware forests. The helplessness and the need to find an affective refuge on the part of the orphan child is credible and moving. Angelina Jolie is wearing her firefighter uniform all the time, something that is not exactly sexy, although I do not take my eyes off her beautiful and magnetic face for a second. And if they dressed her as an astronaut, helmet included, it would also be beautifully recognizable.

I watch this movie in an almost empty room.

And I discover at the end that I have not looked at the clock at any time, that I have spent two hours attentive, although not enthusiastic, at what they were telling me on the screen.

It is a pleasant and fleeting sensation.

The times are not there to demand much more from the failing billboard.

Those who wish my death

Director: Taylor Sheridan.

Cast: Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen.

Genre:

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USA, 2021.

Duration: 100 minutes.