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Intacto
Lions Gate Films


7.2

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MPAA RATING: R for language, some violence and brief nudity

Starring Leonardo Sbaraglia, Eusebio Poncela, Mónica López, Antonio Dechent, Max von Sydow, Guillermo Toledo, Alber Ponte, and Andrea San Vicente

Spanish director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo has fashioned an enigmatic tale of four people...lives intertwined by destiny...subject to the laws of fate...who discover that luck is something they cannot afford to be without as they gamble with the highest stakes possible...in a deadly game from which only one of the will emerge intact. (Lions Gate Films)

GENRE(S):	Suspense/Thriller
WRITTEN BY:	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo Andrés M. Koppel
DIRECTED BY:	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
RELEASE DATE:	DVD: June 24, 2003 Video: June 24, 2003 Theatrical: December 13, 2002
RUNNING TIME:	108 minutes, Color
ORIGIN:	Spain
LANGUAGE(S):	English and Spanish (with English subtitles)

Best New Director, Best New Actor (Sbaraglia), 2002 Goya Awards

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...

Washington Post Richard Harrington

Mesmerizing art-noirish thriller.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

Plays out like a sprinter competing in his first distance race: It bursts forth with tremendous energy, sustains itself for quite a while, loses steam near the end but finishes ahead of most of the pack.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

Director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo creates the same world of devils and innocents that grounds so much of Spain's modern, seeped-in-Satanic-evil horror, recast in a secular cinematic vocabulary.

LA Weekly Mark Olsen

The story is bound together with gaming set pieces that are strange, inventive and mesmerizing.

Variety Jonathan Holland

A self-aware, intriguing and technically accomplished fantasy thriller firmly in the Hollywood tradition, Intact has a confidence and expertise not seen from a Spanish tyro since Alejandro Amenabar's "Thesis" (1996).

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A sharp brainteaser of a film, a compelling mind game you compulsively play along with.

The New York Times Dana Stevens

The latest movie from Spain to use the conventions of the thriller to explore knotty and fascinating philosophical questions.

Portland Oregonian Kim Morgan

Effectively thrilling.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

The story of this Spanish thriller is weak in psychological credibility but strong in suspense, novelty, and imagination.

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Intriguing, provocative stuff.

Film Threat Tim Merrill

Devilishly clever and boasting a killer finale, Intacto is this year's "Memento" -- only Spanish.

Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov

Intriguing and stylish.

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Somewhere in this broody ''Twilight Zone''-ish story about magical thinking (and the lure, to filmmakers, of garish casino culture) is a provocative and maybe even shocking thought on the Holocaust as a crapshoot.

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

First-time feature director Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's dark, complex allegory about luck, chance and fate is one of the year's most morbidly fascinating foreign films.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey

Shot mostly at night, in high-contrast images, punctuated by rock-video collages, Intacto is nothing if not hip, but its questions are more coffee-shop hypothetical than genuinely profound.

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

I admired Intacto more than I liked it, for its ingenious construction and the way it keeps a certain chilly distance between its story and the dangers of popular entertainment.

Boston Globe Wesley Morris

The movie pits fortune against destiny and has an enigmatic old time splitting the difference.

Chicago Tribune Loren King

Mix of stylish action and meta-musings, provides plenty of confusing, satisfying surprises, though it could have used more tightness and punch.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Depending on your personal tastes, Intacto will either be an ambitious concoction of cerebral science-fiction or a towering pile of nonsense. The truth lies somewhere in between.

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

Consistently absorbing -- thanks in large part to strong performances from the actors -- but not particularly rewarding.

Village Voice Michael Atkinson

It's a shame that, somewhere in his mystagogical handstanding, Fresnadillo forgot the real world.

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

Fresnadillo's film is little more than a gloomy and attenuated Twilight Zone episode, reminiscent of Alex Cox's portentous "The Winner" (1997) without the truly breathtaking conclusion.

San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle

Convoluted.

New York Post V.A. Musetto

A convoluted, pointless thriller that wastes the considerable talent of Max von Sydow.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The film's a swell way of torturing yourself for 108 minutes.

The average user rating for this movie is 7.2 (out of 10) based on 8 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Rich N. gave it a9:
A film with tunning visuals and full of imagination and suspense. There are some scenes in this film that'll forever stick with you (and remain in your unconsciousness). You'll always be able to recall those "certain" moments.

Chad S. gave it an8:
Since the men and women in this bizarro world has luck on their side, "Intacto" could've been a thinking man's "X-Men", but these people are too self-absorbed; too passionate about the lucrative "silly-games-that-makes-paintball-look-cerebral" market. It's Samuel(Max Von Sydow), a concentration camp survivor turned evil(sound familiar?), which will remind some of the 20th Century Fox franchise, helmed in short order by Brian Singer(yay!) and Brett Ratner(boo!). Only Sara(Monica Lopez) fits the bill of being superhero-like. As a recently widowed cop, Sara is not in the game for herself, she's trying to bring a fugitive(Tomas, played by Leonardo Sbaraglia) to justice. Tomas(who has proven himself as seasoned in cheating death) could rush into burning buildings to save babies instead of being pimped around by Federico(Eusebio Poncela) on the "silly-games-that..."-circuit. "Intacto" isn't about good-versus-evil, but the matchup exists on the periphery(Sara(good) waits on the sidelines when Samuel(evil) dukes it out with Tomas). "Intacto" is a film about greed, extrapolated(there's a faint sci-fi element to this story), to highlight the anti-philanthropist ways of the super-rich, who'd rather indulge in the most trivial of pursuits than help other people.

Velma T. gave it a9:
The most creative thriller I've seen since Memento.

Craig B. gave it an 8:
I agree with Dave P's comments and I am submitting my vote primarily to raise the score of this undervalued film.

Dave P. gave it an 8:
This is one of the best films I've seen in a while. Aside from the very original and brilliant story and excellent cinimatography, the spanish director put a nice touch on the film and differentiated it from the usual hollywood feature formula films that bore the hell out of me. Rent this movie, if nothing else it may cure you from wanting to go to casinos. Metascore 60 is total BS should be at least 80. If you read the guys that brought the score down, they said convoluted, maybe to someone who isn't paying attention.

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