Retorno

OK movie to pass the time. Credits for being from Argentina and showing nice landscapes, but yeah, story is lacking and acting is mediocre. Passes the time though.

First thing first I haven't seen the other two movies of the series, but I read about their plot and they didn't seem that much linked. Overall the movie is entertaining even if without rhyme or reason.

Soundtracks are the best ingredient of this movie for sure.

Honorable mention goes to Aquiles Casabella aka Cruz Carreras: he made interesting and appealing all the scenes where he appears thanks to his acting skills.

Another unviewable movie coming from Netflix.

You may wonder what it takes to get fired as person responsible for content at Netflix. Because one after the other shipwreck is launched.

There's 10 minutes in the movie where it's a subplot about native Americans and it has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. What the hell. That makes zero sense.

As "Recurrence" (2022 release from Argentina; 115 min.; original title: "Pipa") opens, a woman is found dead. We then go to "A Few Hours Earlier", and we get to know a rich family in a remote rural area of Argentina. There is a big party at the family mansion, and one of the staff people, Samanta, is the woman found dead some hours later... What exactly happened here? At this point we are 10 minutes into the movie.

Couple of comments: this is the latest from Argentinean writer-director Alejandro Montiel ("Intuition"). Here he intends to bring a crime thriller. It's not at all clear for quite a while that the key character is a woman named Manuela, apparently an erstwhile cop. I kept waiting for things to pick up, and kept waiting, and waiting... I could not get into it whatsoever and gave up an hour into the movie, sorry. It wasn't until afterward, when I read up on this movie, that I realized that "Recurrence" is a sequel of sorts to a prior movie (20178s "Perdida", or "Loss") starring that same character Manuela (and played by the same actress, Luisana Lopilato). Even though "Recurrence" is supposed to be a stand-alone film, it's pretty clear to me that having seen "Perdida" would've answered a lot of questions I had about the lead character, and would also have given me a much better context within which to appreciate "Recurrence".

"Recurrence" recently premiered on Netflix, where it was "suggested" to me based on my viewing habits. Typically I trust these suggestions quite a bit, but in this instance, I wish I was aware that "Recurrence" comes after "Loss" and "Loss" (also on Netflix) should've been recommended to me before "Recurrence". Viewer beware!