Lost Bullet (2007) User Reviews

Misled film

[magullon · 2/10 · 19 January 2006]

There are films that did not have never to be made and this is one of them. Daniel (Juanjo Puigcorbe) leaves the jail with the spirit to take revenge itself of his father-in-law, a judge sunk in the corruption and the drug trafficking. And one better idea is not happened to him than the one "to kidnap" to its own son (Jose Maria Gomez) and to take it to decrepit studies of cinema where they are rolled, still today,broken-down films of the American West staged in the Spanish Mediterranean coast with the only Yankee reference that the one that gives a withered actor him, Michael Morrison (David Carradine), in the declivity of his once shining race. Permanent sensation that is obtained in this film is the one of dust that covers it of principle to aim, that does that when it concludes, the spectator of a deep sigh of lightening. It is truth that his director, Pau Martinez, aims at many things. But it is so its unskillfulness that all of them are halfway as halfway it is left the film that seems to be without finishing. The tried revenge never concludes, the fled tried one is not carried out, the denunciation to the corruption of the corrupt father-in-law does not finish explaining, the connections of the judge with the bandits narcotics traffickers are not seen by no side, the incipient love that is born between the protagonist and the secondary actress who for of apache (Cristina Seats) has been diluted like a lump of sugar in the water, the encounter with the old friend To pound (Mercedes Sampietro)loses itself in a timid kiss that nobody knows that it means, we do not know that lesson has learned the boy, a little bad-mannered, in this unusual adventure if we excluded to shoot with an old Colt of the imaginary American West. We do not know either if the old actor is pederast or a frustrated father, logically with all the extremely well-known problems, alcohol, age, ephemeral glory, etc. And finally we remained without knowing the reason for the antagonism that feels this devastated actor by Daniel to not being deeply rooted enmity between Americans and Spaniards, nor is understood the reverence that becomes to the Empire when it is the beating whom the 'españolito'poor man at hands of the quarrelsome receives, powerful and dusty American gunman. That is to say, we remained waiting for the end of so many things whereas we shook the dust that has fallen on us, after seeing this film (?). It causes a great pain to see that handful of good actors act in a so poor film. Necessities to eat every day...

Cute.

[nhthyroid · 31 July 2009]

I love David Carradine, I really do. Why else would I have watched this film? It is so painful to watch Carradine, once again, waste his talent in a low budget movie with a nothing script. There is only one thing worse-seeing Carradine waste his talent is a low budget nothing movie in a foreign language. Apparently they do things different in Spain, as they let the main character, Daniel, out of jail for his mothers funeral. During his furlough he kidnaps his son and takes him to a movie set where a western is being shot with a "famous" American star (David Carradine). Why on Earth Spain was chosen as a location for an American Western with an English speaking American actor really is never explained. If you have ignored this absurdity and made it to the end of the film you will see that Daniel's son finds that he admires the American actor far more than his own father. Sensing this, Carradine's character, Michael Morrison, stages a fight with Daniel, designed to demonstrate his physical superiority over the septuagenarian actor. It was cute in a "Miracle at Sage Creek" sort of way. One big loose end-Why don't the Spanish authorities ever realize that Daniel has not returned to jail and go after him? Aside from the obvious father-son jealously thing I have described, I really did not understand any other plot lines in the movie. Did Daniel get back with his wife? If so, what of the girl that he has been developing a relationship with throughout the movie? Will he go back to jail? What was the significance of the "family book"? Who knows? Maybe there will be a sequel and all this will be explained, but don't suffocate while holding your breath waiting for it.