Lost & Found

Alvaro Morte (Money Heist) and Veronica Echegui (Yo soy la Juani) star in this disturbing thriller in which an employee of a dark 'lost and found' office enters the dark underworld of human trafficking, organized mafias and illegal adoptions. One day he receives a strange suitcase with terrible contents inside. Mario decides to investigate on his own. Following the trail of the suitcase and helped by police woman Helena (Verónica Echegui) he comes across Sara (Eugenia China Suárez), a young woman trapped since she was a child in a human trafficking organization. A network that treats people as if they were... objects. How far would you go for something lost?

¨Lost and Found¨ is a complex and twisted story directed by Jorge Dorado (El embarcadero) dealing with a sinister and eerie investigation leads a deranged man to a dangerous prostitution and trafficking ring. Jorge Dorado's brain-twisting thriller , from the beginning, the film keeps the audience interested, hooking you immediately with a strong start. The film contains tension , thriller , drama , mystery and plot twists , including decent suspense with tense sequences especially in its final part, in a unexpected denouement, near of the end. Acceptable thriller in which nothing is the way it seems , the atmosphere is already tense and the twists and turns are the best part of this movie . Indeed, the starting point of the feature film is really strange with the discovery of a suitcase that contains a baby's belongings, but also his little corpse. While the police decide to close the case very quickly, the man who is in charge of the lost and found - interpreted with just the right amount of darkness in his eyes by the Professor of La casa de papel Álvaro Morte - seeks to know the truth about this little being forgotten by all. The atmosphere of this first part is as dark as it should be and offers an investigation with multiple ramifications. Unfortunately for the viewer, the mystery is very quickly solved by the improvised investigator and the film then slides into the denunciation of the prostitution systems of the great luxury hotels. The film evokes all forms of reification of the human being by people motivated solely by the lure of profit, but the heaviness of the subject really spoils the viewer's pleasure.

The cast is pretty well, stars Alvaro Morte, he gives a good performance as Mario, a man with a dark past who long ago decided to stay away from people until one day he receives a suitcase with human remains in his lost and found office, along with the beautiful China Suárez and the always adequate Verónica Echegui and other secondaries in minor roles as Daniel Aráoz, Andy Gorostiaga, Maitane San Nicolás, Zorion Eguileor.

Directed without much originality like everything we can now watch on television, ¨Objetos¨ never justifies at all its presence on the big screen by any formal mastery. Even the actors, most of whom have worked a lot on the small screen, seem to be not very concerned by what they are playing. The director states that the title of the film is about the fact of "trading in objects or trading in people as if they were objects", a play on words in which the spectator is introduced as the story acquires a suffocating suspense.

¨Objetos¨ was uneven but professionally directed by Jorge Dorado. He's a good craftsman who has shot decent films and TV series,such as: Mindscape, Gigantes, El Ministerio del Tiempo, The head, Feria: La luz más oscura, El embarcadero (The Pier), among others. Objetos (Lost and found) , rating: 6/10.