Dir: Alex de la Iglesia
An ultra-gory, futuristic black comedy from Spain about a terrorist organisation (Accion Mutante, or Mutant Action, in English) of freaks and cripples who wage all-out war on the rich and beautiful. They plan the high-profile kidnapping of a millionaire baker's daughter but it all screws up in the most original take on the age-old 'heist gone bad' storyline that I can remember. First-time director Iglesia (under the guiding hand of Pedro Almodóvar, no less) shoots with style and verve, punctuating his brain-melting script with some of the most eye-popping visual weirdness this side of Takashi Miike (yeah, that's right - your whole head's gonna blow!). As for the humour; imagine a meaner, darker and madder "League of Gentlemen" and you're in the right area. Throw in a sprinkling of vicious social satire, some fuck-off firearms and more pint-for-pint gore than you can shake a dismembered Peter Jackson fan at, and you're in for one Hell of a ride down the tunnel of lunacy. A genuine one-of-a-kind flick and, to really cap it off, the ending is, astonishingly, rather romantic. Deranged, beautiful brilliance and a rare flash of true genius at work. You'd be madder than its makers if you missed it. ****
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