Unbridled (2018) User Reviews

Puzzle(d)

[kosmasp · 6/10 · 18 February 2020]

Why would certain individuals act in a certain way and why would they even do certain things? Revenge or other feelings against certain people. We get a beginning that lays quite a bit out for us. But it is step by step that other things get revealed.

It's a thriller drama that has a few things going for it. The acting is good and the movie is decent overall. There's better movies out there, but this isn't bad at all

Political thriller

[hof-4 · 7/10 · 26 September 2019]

The Spanish title "Animales Sin Collar" means iterally animals without a collar or leash, which may mean stray animals and/or free animals.

The subject of this movie (which is very loosely based on, or rather related to Ibsen's A Doll's House) is an Andalusian politician about to enter the public arena with good progressive intentions but with a large skeleton in his closet. We are given a hint at the beginning and the pieces fall in place gradually, with enough left unexplained to stimulate the viewer's imagination. I was slightly disappointed with the way the ending is treated, but this is just a question of taste.

This is the first feature film by director and scriptwriter Jota Linares. His script is clever and taut and he puts it on screen with unflagging pace; not a scene is superfluous. Acting is excellent and cinematography by Junior Díaz captures the feeling of the arid summer landscapes of rural Andalusia. The Spanish spoken in this movie is the colorful and musical Andalusian version. A film to recommend.

Reform Candidates can be worse than those they want to replace.

[jfbbcsjrqg · 8/10 · 21 April 2022]

Man, a self-professed hero of the people, is more than happy to throw the woman he pretends to love under the bus when a crisis looms in his political career. A crisis he created, she tried to fix, then when is looking like he's going to be caught for it, he insists she take the fall for it, all on her own. Doesn't give a shit that she's his wife, or carrying his unborn child. Only about his career.

She was willing to sacrifice family heirlooms to try and save him from his own dark past, and in the end, all she gets for it is the sad realization that he's far worse of a human being than those he's trying to replace.

At least she had the good sense not to hang around for the next change to take the fall for him, after he miraculously dodges a bullet he had already tried to aim at her head.

Good movie, with a really tragic ending, instead of the usual Hollywood "Happy Ever After" bs.