El Bruto, der Starke (1953)

El Bruto, der Starke: Directed by Luis Buñuel. With Pedro Armendáriz, Katy Jurado, Rosita Arenas, Andrés Soler. A tough young man, who helps to kick poor people out of their houses, falls in love with a girl. She lives with her father in the building about to be demolished.

“If you like strong and logical plots, you are likely to dislike this one. Itu0026#39;s all about appearances and show in this one, rather than actually being brilliant, the characters and story just ask you take their brilliance for granted. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe story revolves around illusionists (implicitly portrayed as demigods I would say) and how they manage to fool everyone and get a little fooled themselves. Of course, with all this fooling around there are always chances that something might strike the funny bone, that is to say it has its humorous moments now and then but on the whole the illusions and tricks etc. is just more of a dazzle than something logical and realistic. There is not much depth to the characters and a lot of misdirection to make the climax more effective, but the misdirection only adds to the illogical nature of the plot and makes the story hollow.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eHaving criticized enough the good parts for me were the cocky-as-usual Jesse Eisenberg and some of the funny moments but nothing else. Even the dazzle of the magic tricks was made slow and plain by all the simple filler like dialogues. Final word; skip it unless you donu0026#39;t have a better choice for a movie in mind.”