Weak with an Argentinian flavour

Rating: 3/10 (3 May 2013)

Having enjoyed many Argentinian and South American films I saw the ratings and was very excited. My husband who has a great nose for rubbish saw through it in about 6 minutes, I kept going, travelling hopefully as they say...
I do wonder whether all the rave reviews were written by homesick Argentinians but that is really no excuse for an Academy award. That is just patronising foreigners cos they tried hard.
Nice photography is about it, although I always enjoy looking at the sets of bars, houses and workplaces in another part of the world.
It goes too fast where it should slow down and is painfully dull where it should speed up. It can't decide if it is slapstick, CSI, police procedural, political history or a heartwarming tale of old buddies solving cold cases together.
You always know things are going badly when a lead character starts speechifying and you lose any involvement and start wondering when this bit - which seems to be written by the director's daughter in her creative writing class so can't be cut - will end.
I found myself disliking even the main character's motivation for getting so emotionally involved with the case and I don't think it will give anything away to say that its just so terrible because she really is a beautiful woman.....aaahhh....
Despite what it says on the box there are no twists. No suspense, no nail biting and no thrills.
I can only assume that compared with Argentinian daytime TV this is brilliant stuff. What on earth is it doing in the top IMDb film lists!!