As a return, a return to his beginnings in action cinema, Adrián Suar returns to running, hitting, shooting and making jokes in
Checkmate
, the action comedy that is expected to mark the first great public success for Argentine cinema of the anus.
Suar did not return alone: he brings with him Jorge Nisco, who directed him in
Comodines
, in which he shared the bill with Carlos Andrés Calvo, back in 1997.
Now Suar is Duque, who was part of “an international brigade that solves crimes, frauds and attacks that endanger global security.”
He retired after the death of his brother.
We will know this after the first sequence.
Duque lives alone, in the middle of nowhere, in the Tigre Delta, and has a security device that warns him if someone is lurking in the area.
He thus “catches” his niece, with whom he had become estranged, who arrives without warning.
Suar shoots, runs, fights and makes jokes.
Photos Patagonik
Well, others who also arrive without having been invited are the thugs who machine-gun the house, and whom Duque will eliminate one by one, which is why action heroes come to such because the bad guys don't attack them all together.
It happens to Tom Cruise, it happens to Jason Statham, why shouldn't it happen to Suar.
Overproduction
Because the production of
Checkmate
, shared between Patagonik and Amazon Studios, is considerable, and includes an international cast, since when the potatoes burn - the bad guys kidnap his niece -, Duque will go first to Nancy and Mal cosido (for one scar on his face), and then he will reunite in Argentina with those who were his companions, among them, the Spanish Maggie Civantos, Macarena in the series
Vis a vis
.
The "brigade" meets to help Duque, Adrián Suar's character.
Everyone must infiltrate a maximum security laboratory in Mendoza, and get a scientific formula from there, which is what the bad and powerful want as part of the rescue of Duque's niece.
The film is titled
Checkmate
for a reason .
This is what Duque and his niece play, will it have anything else to do with the plot?
Badly sewn (Benjamín Amadeo) and Duque.
The gags of the film are distributed among them.
Mike Amigorena is the villain.
He looks like he stepped out of an animated movie from the Illumination studio, the ones who created the Minions.
The comedy scenes are to decompress the action, and many of them have Benjamín Amadeo (Mal cosido) as the main participant.
Also in the cast are José Eduardo Derbez (
How Poor, So Rich
) and Tsahi Halevi (
Fauda
).
In this solid proposal for entertainment.
"Checkmate"
Good
Comedy/Action.
Argentina, 2024. 104', SAM 13.
From:
Jorge Nisco.
With:
Adrián Suar, Maggie Civantos, Mike Amigorena, Diego Cremonesi, Benjamín Amadeo.
Theaters:
Hoyts Abasto and Dot, Cinemark Palermo, Showcase Haedo, Belgrano and Norcenter.