El Niño - Jagd vor Gibraltar

The sequences about the police side of the matter are kind of overplayed, but otherwise it is a success in terms of genre. The only drawback is the silly line "we play on smugglers" is exactly what ruins the movie in a nasty, terribly way. On the one hand, nothing happens in it beyond hanging out from nowhere to nowhere, where one is like a relieving element and the other, which has such an identical expression and attitude throughout the film that you have a reasonable suspicion of whether it is a real person or just a cardboard puppet used in different scenes. And this unintentionally ridiculous line has as much space as the solid police line, which together creates an unjustifiably gigantic footage. The intersection of these two lines then occurs only in the action scenes of the smuggling activities, which looks like Cobra 11 upside down. While even if some trips over a small stone it leads many somersaults and explosions, the main motto here is "make sure not to damage or scratch anything, the insurance company would kill us" and so all chases (there are not many of them, but they pretty long) are the embodiment on the action scene of unprecedented boredom. (03.02.2015)