The Paramedic (2020) User Reviews

What's wrong the ending?

[Misss25 · 5/10 · 26 August 2022]

This movie actually doesn't make sense to some extend. I like the concept, acting but if I gonna look for logics, it doesn't have. How can a paralysed person can do this all his own? He murdered two people still no one has any clue. No one is looking for them?

And the person who helped to dispose the old man's body who is he?? The movie even didn't clarify that. I thought, at least it would have a decent ending! But,what is this? Why his girlfriend is taking him in?

Why the police isn't arresting anyone? Angel kept captivate her for so long, also killed her lover, her unborn baby's father, still she didn't said anything to police. On the other hand Angel fall from such a height, yet no one questioned her how he did fall?

For the first time, I wanted if the movie was bit longer, I would have gotten my answers, it could be ended brilliantly. It has a pretty good start, splendid concept . But, didn't think it would end this way.

Mario Casas..I am your fan!

[madonnicallysony · 7/10 · 17 September 2020]

The concept is nothing new. But Mario's acting was everything in the movie. From the start we get an impression that the protagonist (Angel Hernandez) is recluse and doesn't like interacting much with people, he is an extremely controlling boyfriend and he suffers from a kind of kleptomania (maybe??) wherein he steals items from the injured people's homes or cars while arriving for help as a paramedic. When he suffers from paralysis his suspicion towards his gf grows stronger to the point he spies on her. In time, his gf finds what he was doing and she leaves him. The rest is kinda disturbing. As I mentioned, the plot is not new but you gotta watch this for Mario's performance. He just lives upto the character right from the start to the end with no remorse or feeling on his face regarding the type of things he did. The 7 stars go to him and of course to the ending. The movie has a good pace and doesnt leave you bored but it doesnt have anything extra ordinary to offer.

Entertains

[faer_kr · 7/10 · 17 September 2020]

A Spanish thriller. It is about a paramedic who lives with his girl trying to be parents and how he spends his time working until an accident makes his life change and the biggest of his dreams, which is to have a child, is frustrated. Entertaining Quality. Predictable like all of its kind. Mario Casas is unrecognizable and spectacular in this interpretation. Sometimes the language is run over and that makes some moments not understood. The character's psychology and motivations are very clear and bearable. The few successful sexual and violent scenes. It's about how we handle frustration of all kinds. An extraordinary option if you are a fan of thriller and Spanish cinema.

Too much filler, not enough substance.

[Top_Dawg_Critic · 7/10 · 27 March 2021]

At a normally comfortable 94 minutes, this one felt much longer. I can't put my finger on any one reason, because the pacing was ok, which usually is the issue.

There's a lot going on, almost too much that I feel is unnecessary, and there just isn't enough suspense until the last quarter of the film. The tittle, The Paramedic, really doesn't suit the story, and even being one in this film was really just filler. I'd rather some emerg doctor cross the street, get hit by a car, and then get the ball rolling with the main acts.

The casting and performances were quite good, and the directing was decent, but this thriller needed more thrills. It's a good one-time watch if you've nothing else to watch.

It's okay

[denden85 · 6/10 · 23 September 2020]

I don't regret watching, many things did make sense, but some details are quite funny - especially the end of ending, which feels like of another movie. But at the same time, it's not an open ending that leaves with a question "wtf just happened". Watch it, judge by yourself.

Irritating!

[maanikroda · 2/10 · 17 September 2020]

The Paramedic is reminiscent of better movies such as Rear Window and Misery, but without sufficient character development, it just feels like an exploitation film, heavy on violence and narcissism. A great deal of the tension generated here is sustained by the fact that the director establishes early on that Angel (an ironic name) is without morals, a guy in the healing professions who routinely steals from the injured and dead. We know that no internal ethics will interfere with his revenge scheme. He won't hesitate to murder anyone who gets in his way. He won't feel remorse or mercy, or change his mind about the evil he is doing, so nothing he does, no matter how vile, surprises us. Implausibility is high as people keep warning Angel they're going to call the police instead of just going ahead and calling them. Most implausible is that Angel, like a Mafia boss, has his own crime cleanup squad on call for getting rid of pesky bodies. All of this leaves little room for nuance and doesn't allow the mounting tension to ever let up, making this simply unpleasant and difficult to watch rather than engrossing, as a thriller ought to be.

Nothing interesting.

[furkanttnc · 6/10 · 17 September 2020]

Everything happens in a way you can guess. The movie doesn't surprise or excite you. Still, not that bad. I liked soundtracks.

Below average

[cool_andhot · 3/10 · 17 September 2020]

Normally Spanish psychological thrillers never disappoints, but this one is an exception. I didn't feel sorry for the girl, didn't feel sorry for the dog, neither for the neighbour. The character development was that poor !! I seriously don't understand the silliness at the end. Just skip it , even on a lazy sunday.

Normal saddist husband movie..!!

[kamalbeeee · 6/10 · 23 September 2020]

A husband suspects his wife and he became limp at one stage...then he suspects more than before and he installed spy app in her mobile...later she found that app then she decided to separate from him and decided to stay with his friend..then he get angry decide to revenge them... One time watchable movie..

Cliche and bad cinematography

[santi-fuentes99 · 3/10 · 17 September 2020]

The movie tries to achieve suspense with some build up of how Angel begins to lose his mind after the accident. It tries to create internal montage for the character but fails the attempt, instead shows us a character with a non believable motivation of his actions. The miurders committed are so irrelevant and don't show anything cinema hasn't seen, a jealous man killing and kidnapping a girl. I think it's a movie that is just going to be a forgettable Netflix thriller just like what happened to Fractured, even less. Can't believe it's the same actor Mario Casas who made a great performance in the Invisible Guest. Although I wanted to know how was the movie going to develop, halfway through lost interest. Lack of originality and full of cinema cliches. Wouldn't recommend it.

Hugely enjoyable psychological thriller.

[jamesstewart1977 · 8/10 · 25 September 2020]

After weeks of trying to find a good film on Netflix (having watched almost all the decent ones) I finally came across this gem. A hugely enjoyable Spanish psychological thriller that I was glued to throughout - and a few unexpected plot twists along the way. Really enjoyable movie (there are actually a few really good Spanish thrillers on Netflix if you take the time to find them). Disturbing, creepy, suspenseful, good acting, good camera work and a fantastic ending. At times disturbing to watch, but that's why we enjoy psychological thrillers, isn't it? I give it 8 out of 10.

It's okay

[jersonibarra14 · 7/10 · 18 September 2020]

Poor character development Movie has 2 characters who are pieces of crap The tone is dark The whole time I was expecting more paramedicy

Pathetic!

[rajtilakbhattacharjee · 1/10 · 18 September 2020]

How can this be in the top 10 on Netflix is beyond me. The entire movie seems to have been made keeping the stupidest people in mind. A girl-friend who broke up with her boy-friend because he was spying on her, yet she goes back to his flat with him, all alone! The old man kept hearing screams of help, and all he could do was knock on his door saying "I'll call the police!" No wonder he was murdered. After some time it just gets too idiotic to watch. Not worth your time.

Decent Spanish Thriller

[Foutainoflife · 6/10 · 4 October 2020]

I wasn't sure what I should expect with this but it ended up being ok. There are a a few tedious moments but for the most part I stayed engaged. The acting was good but I think it could have benefited from a bit more depth into the characters back stories. There were some things going on that could've used a bit more explanation.

Decent watch though.

Disturbing overall but fitting ending

[gustheaffen · 6/10 · 16 September 2020]

Total scumbag loser of a human being paramedic that steals from those he is tasked with helping gets critically injured and becomes a complete lunatic to his girlfriend who he then torments. I wouldn't go out of my way to watch this, it was very disturbing and hard to watch but at least had a fitting ending. Hard to believe the girlfriend would have ever dated such a loser.

The ending ruined it

[jladimayuga · 5/10 · 24 February 2021]

Spoiler! Was going fine until the end but the ENDING doesnt make sense. Why would the character spend time torturing her husband when the entire movie is about escaping him. It just doesnt connect for me. Sorry. Wish it ended differently.

Dark - a film about hate

[rigas-2 · 7/10 · 24 January 2022]

The main character of Angel, teh paradmedic, is a very dark, brutal, calculating, and finally unhuman personae. Mario Casas personifies him by giving an impression of absoluteness, that is feeding his hatred of others, his inability to imagine a serene relationship with anyone, neither his fellow workers, nor his neighbor, nor the people who help him, and of course not his wife. After the accident that will leave him paralysed, it is obvious to the us, viewers, that the implacable outcome of this story can only be death. And we discover on the way that it can be darker than that. During the film we see this character becoming more and more despicable, resorting to the worst stratagems but still achieving his ends. The apprentice paramedic is despicable in the initial scenes in the ambualnce that set the scene; he is a detestable character from the very start. His wife, Vanessa, a rather simple and naive French girl (played with sensitivity by Deborah François) after doing her best, realizes the impossibility of changing her man, leaves him and telling what comes after would be a spoiler. She is actually too naive but no one can be on guard all the time or even imagine that the man with whom one has had a previous love affair is so different. The character is consistent and quite obnoxious from the first images - but one still has difficulty in imagining the horrors he will do. The setting shows a gloomy and rather deserted environment (the only real implausibility of the film is the absence of neighbours, except one poor guy). The colors, the way of filming the characters, the very few urban landscapes, accentuate a feeling of uneasiness from the beginning and build an atmosphere of suffocation. A very dark thriller, maybe also terrible to see because it appears plausible,

Could have been a lot better... Warning spoilers

[Mehki_Girl · 4/10 · 20 September 2020]

I watched this in the original Spanish with captions.

I was interested to see what happens. As someone else pointed out, there's little tension because at the very beginning of the film we see that the protagonist, Angel, doesn't really have a moral center. He steals from the dead and the injured he mistreats his girlfriend and he abuses her.

She leaves, when she discovers that he has downloaded an app on her phone to spy on her. They live in a dark cramped little apartment and there doesn't seem to be very much joy in there. They're trying to have a baby and he goes to the doctor and he finds out that he really doesn't have the sperm count but he doesn't tell her.

Subsequently while riding in the back of an ambulance it is t-boned by large vehicle and he's left a paralegic.

He's nasty, he's manipulative, and he continues to manipulate and abuse his girlfriend . He's also spying on her with a app on his phone. He listens in on her phone and he discovers her talking to a friend of hers saying she's unhappy and she wants to leave them and her girlfriend is encouraging her to do so.

he then decides to make nice and makes all sorts of promises to her about changing his ways, and you really don't know if he was ever going to really do it. Because the same night she finds out about the app on the phone and she immediately leaves him while he's in the shower.

Later he sees her in the street with the ambulance driver and it's obvious they have a relationship and they are working on having a family together.

He uses a ruse to get her up to the apartment. She stupidly goes up there without telling anybody that she's going. He drugs her, ties her to the bed basically kidnaps her.

Also, as others pointed out people keep threatening to call the police (an old neighbor that hears her screaming, the distraught boyfriend that's looking for her), but they never do. The old man neighbor, instead goes in the apartment when Angel tells him to come in to see that no one's in there. Angel promptly kills him, then calls up a guy he sells the stuff that he steals from injuries people who just comes in and takes away the body.

Sorry, but this guy is a nobody why would anyone cover up a murder for him, for a few dollars? Anyway it's at this point when you realize the movie isn't going to get better. You also realize that you don't care about any of the characters because there was really no character development.

This was a movie that was a little bit different, that could have been better, but wasn't. Interestingly enough they incorporate a little bit of Covid into the movie. Although they don't name it. How timely is that?

Good story.

[T2TLED · 7/10 · 25 September 2020]

This is a decent thriller! The music and camera work making it extra scary. Give it a shot.

Nothing special.

[Go_For_The_Jugular · 3/10 · 3 February 2022]

Interesting, but unoriginal plot.

Very boring in places.

Full of unlikeable characters.

Non-sensical at times.

Awful pacing...and a very rushed last 15 minutes.

The movie is called 'The Paramedic', but the guy is only a paramedic for about 4 minutes of the entire film.

Not a terrible film...just lacking in so many places.

Pleasantly surprised by this movie

[Graigslist · 8/10 · 17 September 2020]

I started watching and and it didn't take long before the main character's behaviour gave me the creeps. The movie centers around him handling his new life with paralysed legs and the resulting frustration about it, which he works out on his girlfriend. Him being stuck at home also worsens his already existing jealousy towards his girlfriend which ultimately gains the upper hand.

His actions constantly made me curious about what he was going to do next and I liked the suspenseful atmosphere that was created. Mario Casas puts down a good performance here. Not all the things happening in the movie are realistic but overall I liked the movie. Not as bad as some reviews here are saying.

Stick with it

[antide-42376 · 6/10 · 19 March 2021]

When this first started I wondered where it was going. A creepy paramedic stealing from the dead & the badly injured. Then something happened that changed things forever in his life.

I thought this was OK and a nice twist showing that someone with a severe disability could still be a dangerous and psychotic individual. Don't let the fact that it is dubbed put you off as you soon get used to it. Give it a watch.

boring movie with no message

[rgomezatd · 4/10 · 19 September 2020]

Boring movie with no message. Basically it is a man with a girlfriend who is paralyzed, she wants to abandon him for one of his friends and he tries to prevent it with the skills of an abuser, killing him and kidnapping her while in a wheelchair. The story I do not know very well what it means, not even the final message where she takes him after leaving him tetraplegic (revenge ??). Very basic plot, and also most of the things that happen are surreal (the hacking, the murders while in a wheelchair, the stabbings, etc). Bad

it could be much better

[dijanabecic · 6/10 · 24 October 2020]

I somehow rooted for main character. It was interesting and I really expected stronger ending but there was nothing special. Watchable.

Double revenge.

[ulicknormanowen · 7/10 · 20 August 2022]

Gripping thriller,mainly in its first part , in which the jealous husband , a macho who would not admit he's sterile ,spies on his wife : after all with his work as an ambulance driver,he allows her to study to become a vet!

The second part is more derivative and there's a deja vu feeling ;but strong scenes survive : the moment where the old tenant wants to let his place in the elevator ,which humiliates the once tough guy; his meeting with an old chum,now a clerk in a supermarket ; and it's something to see the heroine,scrawling across the floor , when Edith Piaf's magnificent "hymne à l'amour" is heard !