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Equis
X

Spain 2002
produced by
Cesar Benitez for Boca Boca Producciones, Canal+, Telecinco
directed by Luis Marías
starring Antonio Resines, Esperanza Roy, María Adánez, Manuel Galiana, Marta Belaustegui, Pere Arquillué, Antonio Dechent, Paco Hidalgo, Joaquín Notario, Paco Hernández, Sandra Toral, Janfri Topera, Sandra Illán, Toni Zenet, Mónica Caballero, Roberto Cairo, Chapo Zajapoel, Rafael Martín, Celia Castro, Fiulo Pardo, Antonio de la Torre, Ruth García, Paco Deniz, Ruth Salas
written by Luis Marías, music by Luis Elices, Francisco Musulén

review by
Mike Haberfelner

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After a night of heavy drinking, policeman Javier (Antonio Resines) wakes up in a strange bed, besides Natalia (Esperanza Roy), a woman he has never seen before - and that despite the fact that he is married to Bea (Marta Belaustegui), who is expecting his baby -, and no recollections of last night safe from something involving a hair salon. And when he passes the hair salon later that morning, he finds it locked while in his car he finds a sport bag containing scissors covered in blood ...

Later that day, Javier receives a call from headquarters about a murder - that has occured in exactly the hair salon where he has been last night - and suddenly Javier realizes that he could become the prime suspect in this case ... but what's worse, he has no idea if he's innocent or not ...

So, while he can't keep his marriage from breaking up, Javier also has to investigate what exactly happened last night - and he has to keep his investigations secret from his colleague and friend Santiago (Pere Arquillué), who officially handles the case.

Javier's investigations quuickly lead him to Alicia (María Adánez), the deceased's crippled but beautiful sister, for whom he soon develops a soft spot, and from her he eventually learns about a bag of money her brother is supposed to have stolen from a trio of gangsters - a story that suddenly puts Javier in the clear, at least in his own mind, because he might have the bag and the murder weapon (the scissors), but he doesn't have the money - so there simply must have been someone else.

An attempt to involve Natalia - the woman he woke up next to - and her husband in his investigations goes horrribly wrong though when hubby is tortured by the trio of gangsters to a point that he rather commits suicide than taking any more torture and Natalia is hospitalized.

Then the three gangsters think Javier has the money and try to torture it out of him, heck they don't even shy away from threatening Bea just to make him talk ... until Javier finally admits to having the money - which he of course doesn't have - and promises to bring it in 24 hours time, but only if they get him a fall guy to take the murder rap ... which our gangster trio happily agrees to.

But when Javier is supposed to hand over the money, he has found a way to play them against each other, and ultimately makes each of the threebelieve one of the other two has the money - and eventually, it all culminates in a shoot-out only Javier survives. And since he thinks that one of the gangsters had the money anyways, in his mind justice is served ... that is until he stops by Alicia and her parents and finds a checkered jacket, just like the one the only eyewitness who could relieve Javier so far, has described - and suddenly it dawns upon Javier: the real killer wasn't either of the gangsters at all, it was the deceased's own father (Paco Hernández), who could never come to terms with his boy's homosexuality, and Alicia, the woman Javier has almost fallen in love with, herself, who always blamed her brother for being a cripple, and the two of them wanted the money for what their son/brother had done to them, even if it meant killing him and ruining Javier's life ...

 

On a story level, Equis is nothing short of brilliant, a totally logical murder mystery that is still full of unusual and unexpected plottwists, full of tension and suspense, and that has one guessing to the very end. On the other hand though, the direction of this film is rather flat and uninspired, no attempt is made to make the film into anything special in that respect. That said, the film as a whole is still a high class and highly entertaining murder mystery and is definitely recommended.

 

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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