Inhale Reviews

Not so long ago, I watched ‘Contraband’, also directed by Baltasar Kormakur, and even though I didn’t like it much, it was dealing with a very interesting subject. Here, Kormakur made another feature dealing with another topical subject (illegal organ transplantation) and I enjoyed it more than ‘Contraband’. Indeed, this time, they didn’t try to add some rather far-fetched action scenes, the timeline was not completely messed up and the characters were slightly more developed. I said slightly because the characters seem to be the weakness of Kormakur as, even though he managed to put them in some intriguing and dangerous situations, he doesn’t spend much time focusing on their feelings and thoughts. Concerning the timeline, it was still rather far-fetched though. For example, wasn’t the main character working on a high profile case? At some point, he decides to go to Mexico and it is never mentioned anymore. Furthermore, once again, Kormakur tried to rush the events way too much. I mean, how long is the guy in Mexico? Yet, within a few days, without having any previous local contact, he manages to find who he was looking for, makes a deal, a donor is miraculously found, he brings his daughter down there and, if it was up to the mother, the actual surgery would have actually taken place. Still, in spite of its flaws, most of it was actually rather believable and compelling and I think it is worth a look in spite of its flaws.