Nadie Conoce a Nadie (Nobody Knows Anybody)

Customer Reviews:

A Nice Thriller with Great Views of Sevilla During Holy Week.......2005-08-11

This Spanish film is a nice thriller. It keeps you in suspense for a good part of the film. The views of the beautiful city of Sevilla (Seville) during Holy Week (Easter) are very nice; it captured some of the essense of this special time of the year. I was there in 2004 for Holy Week, and it is truly an awesome spectacle, 24 hours a day.

The only bad part, was the "shooting scenes" down the historical narrow streets. I think this part was silly. It could have been handled with more suspense and realism (even without the use of those "guns?").

CAUTION: This DVD, released by Venevision in August 2005, is not widescreen as is the original film. The transfer quality is good, unlike an earlier release by the same company (which I have read was poor). Look for the cover with the woman within a rifle scope; this is the better version. Never-the-less, my DVD arrived with a dimple in the recorded surface, causing the movie to freeze-and-skip at the end of Chapter 9. I have returned it for an exchange.

If you want an even better version, go to ElCorteIngles.es and buy the version from Spain. You will need a special regionless DVD player.

A moving thriller that gets its aim!.......2005-06-16

At this moment Spain has become undoubtedly, in one the most prestigious countries in the Europen Comunity in what cinematpgraphy concerns. Not only a crowd of talented directors such Alejandro Amenabar, Juan de la Iglesia, but equally the consecrated Almodovar and Carlos Saura, bur besides a magnificent army of good actors, Bardem, Carmen Maura and the young promises such Eduardo Noriega and Paz Vega among others. The list is much longer but the point to remark id s the undeniable advance in the originality of the scripts.
A journalist lives pacefully thanks to his natural skills and talent, making challenging crosswords. It seems nothing escapes from his control. He lives with a roomate who eventually helps him to find some clues for his daily job.
But soon he finds a dangerous warning though his PC. Adversary must be the word he has to fill in the horizontal line file 6 for the next Saturday.
Suddenly there will be more ane more riddles, that will become in a true nightmare. Without knowing he has been chosen as the unique warrior of a very weird and complex brotherhood, inspired in ancient beliefs and inspired by the toad as a devil symbol.
The tension will increase until the smart end that will let you astonished due its originality.
Well script and splendid cast.

if considering this purchase, PLEASE READ!!!!.......2005-01-26

Interesting premise, great acting from an amazing cast. Maybe not as quite up there with abre les ojos, but still pretty good. Also and appearance or two from a very young and sexy Paz Vega.
why the 1 star? I would give it zero If I could. THE QUALITY IS AWFUL!!!!! this looks like a bootleg from chinatown.

well, this transfer was worse quality than that. If amazon would let me return it for a refund, I would be quite happy. There should be some sort of quality check before this stuff can be released legally.

I Know Myself - Good, but not "Great", .......2004-12-16

This little film from Spain has a story to tell, too bad it takes place mostly in the beginning. It deals with hidden witches covens which are scattered throughout Sevile Spain and it has as its main character, a pseudo-intellectual who writes boring crossword puzzles for the main paper, "El Hergizito". Soon he finds himself in a mysterious world of terror which he can not fathom. I was quite interested until the story became a cliche taken from American films and then it became just average on the whole. Most of the derailment took place in a scene where there are numerous men in hoods shooting laser guns in a 'game" that really looks stupid, from there, we learn that the coven of 'Satanas" wants to destroy Seville. His former roommate is the brain child of a group of degenerate loser and misfits, whom he later blows up in another absurd scene, (why kill them off?). The ending is typical and even expected, because he finds the evil guy and shoots him dead, and at the end, it was all just a novel, but we aren't sure are we?

Very good thriller that follows the Spanish tradition.......2004-09-08

While I was watching this movie there was one thing I could not get out of my head: it looks as if the script had been written by Arturo Perez-Reverte. This in itself means considerable praise for the director and screenplay writer Mateo Gil, who adapted a novel by Juan Bonilla, since Perez-Reverte is one of my favorite authors. Before discussing other aspects of the film, I must say that I did not notice any of the problems mentioned by other reviewers regarding the quality of the DVD. I am not an expert in technology, so the reason for this may be that my DVD player adapts better than others to different formats, but I really do not know.

Simon Cardenas, played by Eduardo Noriega is a writer suffering from writer's block, who in the meantime works creating crosswords for a newspaper in Seville. At the start of the last Holy Week of the millennium he gets a strange message on his answering machine. The caller requests that he uses a particular word in a set place in the next crossword puzzle or there will be consequences for Simon's friends and family. The word in question is "Adversario", and Simon decides to play along; but this leads to a series of attacks starting with the release of Sarin, a poisonous gas, inside a church.

Simon decides to start investigating and searching for the source of the attacks, and that is how he meets Maria, the journalist that is in charge of the investigation for the newspaper. From then on, things get really interesting, when more attacks are noticed, and Simon and Maria get involved in the action. Also, Simon's roommate (Toad) starts acting weird and has some suspicious items in his possession, leading to a certain level of paranoia in Simon. Whether this is justified or not, only time can tell.

An interesting script and reasonably good performances make this an enjoyable movie. If you like to discover new places, the impeccable sights of the city of Seville will give the movie and added flare. For those of you that are used to American thrillers, this film may provide a break from the norm. If you have read authors like Perez-Reverte, you know what I mean, since in the Spanish tradition, you do not always find the extremely twisted plots or the consistent happy endings you see in American films. Whether you will get these elements in this movie or not is for you to find out.

Average customer rating:

A Nice Thriller with Great Views of Sevilla During Holy Week
A moving thriller that gets its aim!
if considering this purchase, PLEASE READ!!!!
I Know Myself - Good, but not "Great",
Very good thriller that follows the Spanish tradition

Nadie conoce a nadie [Region 2]

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