Criticism of the substitute, thriller of action on the colonies of Nazi extended agencies on the Costa Blanca

Today, in addition to rassing once in Euskadi, another Spanish film was released in the 80s that this time leads us to travel to the Costa Blanca. We talked about the substitute.

It is about the new movie of Óscar AIBAR ( The forest, the Gran Vázquez ), whose script coescribe along with María Luisa Calderón Based on an original idea that he had himself when he discovered a series of issues They caught their attention on a trip to the region.

We are before a dramatic Thriller based on real events that explores the Nazi exmist colonies not only residents on the coast but also protected by the government and the institutions of the time.

In the substitute we adopt the point of view of Andrés Expósito, a young police inspector of Madrid who moved to Denia to occupy a vacancy in the police station with the hope of healing his daughter and, in passing, Win some tranquility. However, soon arriving he is surprised at the surveillance he has to perform, obligatorily, from a group of German families.

Investigating the case of murder of the Inspector Boada, whose position has occupied Andrés, he begins to find strange things related to the presence of ancient Nazis who fled from Germany after the Second World War and who live hidden on the Costa Blanca.

The investigation of it will take you to a beach hotel where a Nazi elderly community, claimed by many countries by atrocious crimes against humanity, lives a paradisiacal and happy retreat. However, he will only find obstacles to try to end his impunity.

The distribution of The substitute is headed by Ricardo Gómez ( Tell me how it happened ), actor that despite the youth of it makes the character desire, although with unequal result. In some moment he seems too characterized (almost disguised) so as not to confuse the spectators and that he is related to his role as Carlitos.

Be that as it may, the character lacks charisma, intensity and credibility: you do not believe the character of him and the family of him seems in fact a caricature of a marriage condemned to failure.

Accompany you Vicky Luengo (Stories not to sleep ), Pere Ponce ( 45 revolutions ), Pol Lopez ( Lambarablarables ), Joaquín Climent ( ana Tramel: The game ), Nuria Herrero ( Besos Al Air ), Bruna Cusí ( Mía and Moi ), Susi Sánchez ( The Innocent ), Guillermo Montesinos ( amalia in the autumn ) and Pep Cortés ( Mil things he would do for you ).

Or, what is the same, a team of the most interesting interpretative level that come to clothe it without restraining protagonism.

In general lines the substitute is a better raised film that resolved: several underlines of the script make it almost impossible not to anticipate what it intends to be a revealing final and, in any case it is also appreciated true clumsiness to the Time to delimit the characters, which are quite flat.

Another of the weak points of the tape is the introduction of the soundtrack: where you should only accompany and create a background musical landscape you crave forced and unnatural and when the action sequences require it to create rhythm, leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving, leaving That the viewer is distracted and finished setting on banal aspects.

As a great point in your favor we find the setting, very careful to recreate not only the ecosystem of the eighties, but also to understand the idiosyncrasy of the characters and even the scarce means with which they count to carry out their investigations (great the point of the 127 trucado).

And it is also necessary to point out the effort to ascribe with some fidelity to the environment since Denia has been transformed even thanks to the digital effects to be faithful to the drawing of the city of the time, something that is always appreciated.

In summary accounts the substitute has its weak and strong points: it is a movie that divans too much without getting connecting the main plot with the staff that envelops the character. The direction of actors is far from perfect and commits the failure to precipitate the end by joining the pieces of the punches.

Of course, it has the great virtue of bringing up an episode from our recent history that for many can be today still unknown. Perhaps its greatest value is to wake up curiosity to see how far there are truthful aspects and not only verelimile in this history based on real events.