No Rest for the Wicked
- heavy
- brisk
- intense
- bleak
- cold
Heavy, kinetic, extreme thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
How every film is hand-scored →Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an investigation to locate and eliminate the witness. Meanwhile, Chacón a judge in charge of investigating the triple murder, meticulously advances in the search for the murderer. Santos and Chacon soon discover that what seemed a simple case of drug trafficking is actually something far more dangerous.
Our read · No Rest for the Wicked (2011) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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