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At a gasstation, Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) has spontaneous restroom-sex
with a stranger, Bea (Maríe Valverde). Only when she's gone he realizes
she has stolen his wallet. Eventually though, he rather by chance catches
up with her car again and decides to go after her, even though she has
taken a turn into unknown territory, into the woods to be precise.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, Quim's car is shot at, and when he stops and
gets out to inspect the damage, he runs across a gunman who's eager to
shoot first and ask questions later. Quim gets back into his car and tries
to get the hell out of the place ... but his escape is eventually cut
short by a caterpillar blocking the road. With nowhere else to go, Quim
goes back the way he came and runs over the gunman who's blocking his way
in self-defense - an action which wrecks his car. Continuing his escape
on foot, Quim runs across Bea, whose car has a flat tire, and out of
necessity, the two decide to hook up - especially when they're shot at
again. Eventually, Quim and Bea come across a roadhouse and try to get
help ... but ultimately the roadhouse is empty and the two have to break
in. This is when two cops (Pablo Menasanch, Francisco Olmo) arrive and,
regarding Quim and Bea as perpetrators, they arrest them, the situation
not made any better when Quim tells tehm about the guy he has run over -
after all, Quim still killed him. The cops, with Quim and Bea in the
back of their car, come across the corpse, and when one of them (Olmo) is
shot and the car riddled with bullets, the other cop (Menasanch) thinks
Quim and Bea part of a gang and forces them through the woods at gunpoint
- until the trio is shot at and the cop is killed. Quim and Bea manage to
make a getaway, but ultimately their getaway is cut short when they fall
into a pit. With the help of Bea, Quim gets out, but he cowardly leaves
Bea behind when he hears the gunmen after them approaching - and it's not
long before Bea is shot dead. This is where the perspective shifts to
the two gunmen (Thomas Riordan, Andrés Juste) after Quim and Bea, two
young boys in their early to mid-teens who seem to have played a few too
many ego shooter games on their computer and now try to live their games,
armed with a pumpgun and a telescope rifle. The two of them even keep
track of their kills on a score card. Eventually, the two of them manage
to track down Quim to an abandoned farm, but he is not without resources
and manages to ambush one of them ... but when he realizes his opponent is
nothing but a teenage boy, he pauses ... almost too long because the boy
has already drawn a knife and tries to stab him. Still, Quim manages to
kill his opponent - then the second part of the killing duo arrives on the
scene, and the boy's speechless, staring in the eye of his dead friend.
Quim tries to calm him, but the two get into a fight in which the boy is
accidently shot. Quim has won, but his is a hollow victory ...
Formulaic yet effective
survival horror film that's a bit too blunt in its likening of the boys'
actions to computer games - an approach that doesn't seem to be fully
thought through, but is mirrored even in some of the film's aesthetics -,
but apart from that, it's a pretty tense film that makes perfect use of
one of the most impersonal weapons of one-on-one combat, the telescope
rifle, uses the forest settings as a moody backdrop as well as
narrative device, and keeps its story straightforward and simple enough to
come across as a pretty good thriller. No masterpiece, most certainly, but
nice genre entertainment.
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