Kamikaze (2014)
Slastan, a Karadjistan man, is willing to blow himself up aboard a Moscow plane bound for Madrid, but his plan is complicated when, due to a snowstorm, the flight is delayed. Staying in a hotel, the terrorist will have to live with the 332 people who he will kill until the storm ceases, which prevents him from continuing his mission. Slastan knows, speaks and relates to his future victims and begins to wonder if suicide and ending the lives of all these innocent people is really right.
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Best movie ever!
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
The acting in this movie is really good.
The acting in this movie is really good.
I do not want to spoil the movie because it is definitely worth watching. The music is excellent, the photography and location is magnificent. The acting is dead on. Even some beautiful Spanish eye candy can be seen.I found this movie in HBO NOW in the action section, but I guess it can be categorized as a comedy of sorts. It deals with a very hard subject, one to which Spanish are not foreign to. Terrorism and the humanistic side of both sides of the story. As incomprehensible and difficult to swallow it might be.The final phrase in the movie by the senior survivor might be enough to award investing the time to enjoy it in its entirety. I know that my fellow Americans are not too keen on subtitled movies, let alone one that deals with an issue to which we feel we hold an exclusivity (suffering, terrorism, justice, etc.) but if you can, try to enjoy it.I sincerely didn't follow the subtitles so I do not know how accurate is the translation and since this is Spanish from Spain and Argentina, it has to be well understood to catch its subtle comedic value.It is a very well made movie worthy of a big screen and popcorn. It will definitely jerk your heart and maybe, just maybe provide a couple of smiles if you are capable of keeping an open mind.
It is hard to put your finger on the genre, which I think is one of its best features. It gives you a taste of life with some light humor. Perhaps one of the greatest ideas portrayed by this film is a man being reconciled with humanity, with nature, with himself. There are scenes in the movie that give you an insight into parallel burdens that each character is dealing with, brilliantly shot. The cast does a great job, the characters well chosen, the story and how it unfolds as well as what you discover behind the characters resonates deeply within our need for love, justice, hope and joy. It is a reminder that which was dead can come alive, it is a reminder that hope can still find us wherever we are. Carmen Machi and Eduardo Blanco did a great job bringing the characters together. But the best I must say was the main character, Alex Garcia, simply incredible.
Hard to find whether Kamikaze is a comedy, a drama, or none of either, but that group of people, lost in a remote hotel in the middle of Russia, made me feel laugh, sympathy, sadness, when they show a part of their lives and try to help others to keep going on. Nice characters, fantastic plays, an outstanding Eduardo Blanco with a kind of out fashioned red stilettos, catches us from the first minutes of the film until we know where they really go when the plane finally lands. The story about Lola is one of the bests of the film in my opinion, and especially the way she tells to Nancy, the unhappy girl with a really suggestive voice that will rescue Slatan and herself from their past lives.