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I watched this daily soap movie for several years. The stories took place in a highschool and you can think in all that stuff were about: lovings, hates,... Nevertheless, not only it was a hit for audiences, but also most of Spanish young actors successing nowadays started there: Pilar López de Ayala, Mariano Alameda, Rubén Ochiandiano, Alejo Sauras, Lucía Jiménez, Elsa Pataky, Javier Pereira, Iván Hermes, Miguel Ángel Múñoz, Leticia Dolera, Carmen Morales... This young actors are working in cinema, theatre and abroad. Some of them are beginning in USA, Elsa Pataky, Leticia Dolera etc. So only for the performs it could not be so bad.

XVII Spanish Century is too rich to be told in two hours and a half, and that's what the film has tried. Perhaps too many characters that unable us to be identified with them. Alatriste is too many things in just one: the brave, the hard, the rebel, the lover, the good father... but far from us. I don't think it is Viggo's problem. If you read the novels you will find the same lack. Although we have expected more of this film, it would be unfair to say that this film is not worthy watching it. Actors are great, also wigs and customs (sometimes Spanish people cannot forget them without wigs!). Battles and photography are excellent. The films' atmosphere is much more better than other history films, the fog, the use of light. Go, watch it and make your opinion!