This film titled "Os reviento" revolutionized the Sitges Festival after winning the Audience Award and at the prestigious Fantastic Fest in the USA, surprisingly becoming the Spanish action film of the year. It's an acceptable action film with an attractive mingle of suspense, brutal scenes, bloody combats, shootouts and high body-count. The main character is an ex-boxer who has just been released from prison, whom everyone calls El Tarao, who after being involved in a plot of gangs and black money, only has to use his best weapon: hitting and punching everyone. Gabriel (Mario Mayo) is a former boxer who lives in a village removed from the city with his father (Antonio Mayans) and his dog, Pepe. Everyone knows him by the nickname of Tarado, which he earned in his days as a boxer and, although he could still dedicate himself to boxing, but to avoid what led him to spend a few years in prison he prefers to lead a quiet life, away from everything that led him to spend a few years in prison. For this, he has made several decisions such as leaving his longtime girlfriend, La Mónica (Rut Santamaría), who was a bad influence to start from scratch. But old ghosts always come back, and Tarado will have to deal with the situation the way he knows best: fight. The shady dealings he was hiding attract a wide variety of characters to his house, each with worse intentions than the last: a brother with a new problematic girlfriend, an angry admirer, mobsters with dark intentions and thugs looking for a bag of stolen money. Things get worse when a boxing mobster (Fernando Gil) arrives to settle scores and then his elderly mother (Lone Fleming).
Winner of the Public Award at the prestigious Austin, Texas (USA) festival, and the award for best film in the Midnight X-Treme section of Sitges, its producers describe it as an Iberian action film full of punches, swearing, and jokes with tongue-in-cheek. Cliché-fest storyline gives stereotypical roles a little more development than you may be used to seeing, but it doesn't have them anything new or interesting to say or do, but here giving a twist to action films made in Spain. The movie displays suspense, thriller, unstopped action, plot twists and lots of violence when the struggles and killings happen. It's an average actioner movie with some entertaining moments but also with no sense scenes. The film is a traditional and quinqui response to the B-series action films of current popular myths such as Scott Adkins and director Jesse V. Johnson , especially his two films about ¨ Debt Collector¨ . The cast is not very well known to the general public, however we hope that Mario Mallo will have an ascending film career thanks to this film. There are other better known actors, such as Fernando Gil and two little myths, prolific in the 70s and 80s in Fantaterror and other genres: Antonio Mayans and Lone Fleming, this actress was married to the craftsman director Eugenio Martín, and without forgetting the brief appearance of Javier Botet
This action-packed thriller filled with pulse-pounding excitement was professionally directed by Kike Narcea. It is directed without complexes, funny, brutal and straight to the chin. After winning the Audience Award at the prestigious Fantastic Fest and the Best Film Award at the Buried Alive Festival in Atlanta, 'Os reviento' had its national premiere at the Sitges Festival, where it also won an award. Kike Narcea is a director, screenwriter and comic artist, known for shorts films like ¡Tía, no te saltes el eje! (2006) (Winner Best Picture Notodo Film Fest 2007), or Telmo y Martina (2012) (Official Selection Austin Film Festival 2013), the science-fiction comedy feature film El tiempo de Plácido Meana (2013), or the situation comedy TV series La tira (2008). He started at nineteen years old, drawing the storyboards of Gente pez (2001) and Peor imposible, ¿qué puede fallar? (2002), and he has shot short films, music videos, web series, comedy skits in all kinds of format and support since then. His short film ¡Tía, no te saltes el eje! (2006) is used in film schools and universities throughout the Spanish-speaking world since 2008.
I'll Crush Y'all(2023) rating: 6/10.
