Rage

Rage (2009) is a romance thriller movie produced by Guillermo del Toro and it follows a construction worker in hiding for killing his foreman who hides in the mansion where his girlfriend works as a maid. This movie was a first time watch for me and it was just very average.

Positives for Rage (2009): The story is very interesting on paper and it is a good setup for a thriller movie. The two leads with Martina Garcis as Rosa and Gustavo Sanchez Parra as Jose Maria are really good. The movie is shot and directed very well. The pacing is really good for the most part. And finally, I watched this movie for free on YouTube.

Negatives for Rage (2009): The execution is very messy in spots. The other characters aren't interesting or compelling to follow. There are scenes that go on for too long. The ending was pretty underwhelming and it didn't do anything for me. And finally, the video I watched had no subtitles, so I couldn't understand anything that the characters were saying the entire time.

Overall, Rage (2009) is a fine enough romance thriller movie that gets the job done well enough, but it is one of the more formulaic movies of this genre and that is just lame to me.

"RABIA" is a movie with so many subjects that it is not sure it gets anywhere.In a style close to Luis Bunuel (another side of the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie) and to Roman Polanski (claustrophobia ),since all (or almost) takes place in an old "Gothic" mansion ,some scenes in an attic.But in spite of an ambitious screenplay,directing is not really exciting,lacking the madness the two directors can/could bring to a movie.

This is a love story between two young proletarian lovers ,migrant workers (the way the foreman treats the boy is revealing ) ;this love story ,although it's bound to be tragic ,is unlike any other one ,cause the two lovers are apart in a most amazing way:they are in the same house ,a mansion which belongs to the wealthy family the girl works for .It is some kind of prison for them and when the bars are down ,the freedom the girl has achieved has less to do with chaos than with redemption.