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By Mitun
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Format:DVD
'King of the Hill' (El rey de la montaña) (also released as 'The King of the Mountain') is a Spanish suspense thriller that released in 2007. The movie had a limited theatrical release and has went unnoticed in both the United States and the United Kingdom.
The movie tells the story of Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) who is driving through an isolated area in rural Spain to reach his destination. En route, he meets the mysterious Bea (María Valverde). They are both then hunted by an unseen sniper for reasons unknown, resulting in a game of cat and mouse.
I'd never heard or read about this movie anywhere and didn't know what to expect. I was in for a pleasant surprise as the feature was tense and exciting in the main parts. The ending was perfect with the suspense finishing on a high. I'm a fan of the Austalian horror feature, 'Wolf Creek'. This movie was not as good as 'Wolf Creek' but had that kind of atmospheric feel to it.
The flaws are the slow pace at times and Sbaraglia's over the top/annoying acting.
The performances from the rest of the cast is average.
The direction provided by Gonzalo López-Gallego is just about alright. He could've worked more on the pace of the movie and less on Sbaraglia's performance.
The film isn't great but is better than a lot of the so-called suspense thrillers being released nowadays.
'El rey de la montaña' ain't the King of the Hill but sure is worth a try.
The movie tells the story of Quim (Leonardo Sbaraglia) who is driving through an isolated area in rural Spain to reach his destination. En route, he meets the mysterious Bea (María Valverde). They are both then hunted by an unseen sniper for reasons unknown, resulting in a game of cat and mouse.
I'd never heard or read about this movie anywhere and didn't know what to expect. I was in for a pleasant surprise as the feature was tense and exciting in the main parts. The ending was perfect with the suspense finishing on a high. I'm a fan of the Austalian horror feature, 'Wolf Creek'. This movie was not as good as 'Wolf Creek' but had that kind of atmospheric feel to it.
The flaws are the slow pace at times and Sbaraglia's over the top/annoying acting.
The performances from the rest of the cast is average.
The direction provided by Gonzalo López-Gallego is just about alright. He could've worked more on the pace of the movie and less on Sbaraglia's performance.
The film isn't great but is better than a lot of the so-called suspense thrillers being released nowadays.
'El rey de la montaña' ain't the King of the Hill but sure is worth a try.
Format:DVD
This is the usual civilised folks encountering feral hunters; script-writers clearly having got lots of pre-Iron Age farmers' DNA or were scared by Davy Crockett as children. The opening concept is good, and the revelation of the nature of the predators top-notch but the victims are as dumb as stumps. Give them an area to cross and they'll do it in the open rather than under cover, or on the ridge-line, and there's nothing quite like shouting a lot to help the hunters. Doesn't anybody watch First Blood? If you can put up with the stupid man it's a good tale but many viewers will have given up long before we get there. Even the director wearies of the hero and departs to join the predators for the last part of the film: who can blame him.
Watch only if chilled.
Watch only if chilled.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By Colin
Format:DVD
This is an excellent low budget Spanish language thriller which tells a simple story of a man and a woman, who are strangers to each other, stranded in a remote hilly and wooded area of Spain and finding themselves at the mercy of an unknown assassin who spends the whole time of the movie taking pot shots at them with a rifle. The director tells this story in spare and restrained style with excellent visuals in which the unforgiving landscape becomes a character in its own right. The suspense is unbearable right the way through to the unexpected, shocking and extremely violent denouement - which I shall not give away here...Highly recommended.
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