The invisible guest

Original title : Contratiempo (translation from Spanish : Against the clock, Out of time)

 

Language : Spanish

 

Year of release : 2016

 

Run time : 1h46min

 

Genre : Thriller / Mystery

 

Cast : Mario Casas

 

 

The movie was directed and co-written by Oriol Paulo.

Adrian and Laura have an affair. Problem is, both of them are married. On their way home from their trip (they both lied to their spouses they've been somewhere else for work) Adrian takes a detour and when a deer jumps in front of their car they have a car accident which involves another driver.

 

Scared their affair is gonna be in the open and ruin their marriages,and not just that, Adrian's career as a business man,they dispose of the car and body.

 

Adrian hires the best lawyer to defend him as he is later accused of k!lling someone.

 

As his story unravels,we find out there's more to what he says than meets the eye.

I personally enjoyed the movie. It's one of the best movies I've watched. The movie is action packed, one thing leads to another, and it doesn't have a moment of respite, allowing you to catch a breath.

The visual effects were good. I loved these scenes in which a lighter is dropped in the water and it turns into the car sinking.

 

The acting was great, especially from Anna Wagener who plays Virginia Goodman (SPOILER --- she plays two characters,one of them used to be an actress which is revealed at the end why it's so important), the movie has a few plot twists as we deal with an unreliable narrator.

 

The soundtrack was good, I loved the music at the end when everything is revealed.

The movie received positive reviews, and found international success, the audiences loving it, being most popular in China! Its popularity is mostly shown by the amount of remakes it has, 6 so far! An Italian one from 2018, 3 Indian ones but from different states of India, where they speak different languages, one being in Hindi (from 2019), one in Telugu (2019) and one in Kannada (from 2023); a Korean version titled Confession, released in 2022, which I watched; and a Chinese one from 2023.

It grossed 31.2 million dollars at the box office, against a budget of 4 million Euros.

Rating : It's so money !