Xtremo (2021)
Genre: Action / Adventure
Duration: 111 minuten
Alternative title: Xtreme
Country:
Spain
Directed by: Daniel Benmayor
Stars: Óscar Jaenada, Sergio Peris-Mencheta and Óscar Casas
IMDb score:
5,8 (5.579)
Releasedate: 4 June 2021
Xtremo plot
"Running away is not an option. Revenge is his only plan."
It's been two years since Max's brother Lucero betrays his family and kills Max's father and son. It is now two years later when Lucero strikes again and has his men murder the family of Leo, Max's new protégé, too. This is the last straw for the vengeful Max.
Reviews & comments
Martijnnn
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- 2248 messages
- 2426 votes
A kind of Asian fight movie but then in Spain. I have no problem with a movie sacrificing something in the storyline to show a series of beautiful action scenes but this is too much loose sand, otherwise everything is also just mediocre like the blunt dialogues and the acting.
But what is most unfortunate about a film that revolves around fighting and shooting is that the choreography and (especially) the editing of the action scenes are sometimes downright bad. This is why you cut after someone has been hit and not just before the blow. Often you can only guess what exactly is happening, and sometimes the blows are clearly missed. It looks like Teo García can fight a bit and that makes it an extra shame that this is the result.
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Shadowed
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- 11421 messages
- 6719 votes
Spanish Wick.
Xtreme is a better version of a Wick movie in my opinion, despite the fact that Wick is perhaps a bit more stylized than this movie at times. However, this movie does the action genre a lot better than Wick in my opinion, because instead of uncomfortable wrestling, it gets tough here and the hard blows really hit home.
The acting isn't brilliant, but the film does explore the characters well enough. I don't mean that they all have a strong background, but that they have enough traits to be fun. Nicely idiosyncratic, director Benmayor genuinely makes a decent attempt to make the film cool. He succeeds quite well, and I sincerely wish him well.
The story is just a bit lame and the boy actually gets very little screen time for a character who should be central to the story. In this case it's 111 minutes of Garcia punching and kicking someone in hard ways, but the action scenes lack the variation after a while to make this approach work.
Visually quite stylish, very nice colours and reasonable camera use. The main advantage of the film is that the actors can actually fight, and it gets rough sometimes. With a ridiculously high carnage count the film kicks itself through the scenes, actually there is an action scene every 5 minutes. Thanks to the sometimes coarse nature of these scenes it also works quite well.
Not a high-quality film that ultimately lacks some variation, but it is a pleasantly entertaining film that throws itself fully into the action. It is also a pretty cool film at times, although the editing is still a bit behind. It could have been edited a bit faster and tighter, but otherwise Benmayor knows his trade well. I thought it was a nice popcorn film.
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sinterklaas
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- 11821 messages
- 3321 votes
Nice Spanish action film that gives a bit of the commercial Canal + feeling from around the turn of the century.
The comparisons are remarkable. If this film had been seen after 2011, it would have been the Spanish The Raid... Now, however, it is the Spanish Wick. I don't see many similarities.
That doesn't change the fact that the film is very entertaining. Slick shots, cool bloody action/fight scenes and cool moves (although the bullets never run out), good acting by that young drug dealer and that Lucero. A ruthless bad guy who doesn't even care about children's lives and even an Asian action movie touch.
Story? We know that one by now.
Conclusion: A nice snack that fills you up.
4.0*
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