Nobody Knows Anybody (1999)

Could serve as a primer on what not to do with a thriller -- what appears to be a generic paranoia yarn takes a turn of plot too hard and leaps off the narrative rails. The result is a spectacularly goofy wreck of a film that only gets loopier and harder to swallow the longer it goes. Trying to stifle the guffaws at the film's big chase scene fifty minutes in could cause hemorraging. I figured this movie was unreleased in America because our distributors seem to be trying their damndest to ignore the current Spanish horror-film renaissance; turns out that it's only because the film sucks.

Grade: C-