Intacto
Intacto
R | 06 January 2002 (USA)
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An enigmatic tale of four people whose lives are intertwined by destiny are subject to the laws of fate. They 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 them will emerge intact.

Reviews
Greenes Please don't spend money on this.
GarnettTeenage The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.
Tayloriona Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
fgfbach i wish i did not watch it, so that i can re-watch it like the first time with the same feeling i got,so are you, if you have not watched it yet, its a great opportunity for you to see one of a great examples of how could anybody shot a beautiful film like that without making big or even small expenses.The film is about some very lucky guys saving their ass out of some big troubles, crashes, accidents and about their own competition between themselves to find who's the luckier one, and this luckier then goes to face off the luckiest one... The film is superb from the start till the end if you like the story as the most important matter in a film more than any other, no need to comment more, watch it.
thisissubtitledmovies excerpt, more at my location - From the mind of the darkly comic Esperados, comes the feature length debut of young Spanish director Juan Carlos. Intacto makes tangible the concept of luck as characters can steal, win, barter or risk their fortuitousness in a series of gambles that range from the familiar surroundings of a casino to the deadly world of Russian roulette. Intacto is a film full of fresh, vibrant ideas and a philosophy on luck based on the ideas of Immanuel Kant that are transferred onto screen by Fresnadillo, whose keen directorial sense includes an eye for impressive panoramics and a use of vivid colour, which are highly reminiscent of fellow Spanish director Pedro Almodovar.Armed with a team of highly skilled actors, both known and unknown, Intacto is presented with panache and poise that is both a success cinematically and for the studio that gambled on this emerging and talented director.
vagabondjonson I really liked this movie. I think a lot of people didn't because they got hung up on the potentially confusing aspects of the concept. It doesn't come out and hit you in the face with the rules for this game that the characters play which is a good change for people who like smart, understated stories and don't need everything spelled out for them in suppositional monologues from secondary characters. This is a great movie for just collecting data about the story until the end. Has great themes of sacrifice and redemption and pretty good cinematography too. Lots of other movies have tried to be serious about quantifying "luck" and where those movies failed, this one succeeds because it doesn't hang itself with specifics. There's no way to guage how "special" you are. Just spin the chamber and hope for the best. You will get a lot more out of this movie if you don't try to "figure it out". Just accept what you see until the movie's over, then appreciate the poetry of it.
Melissa Mendelson Life is the fine line that we walk, the chord that echoes to our heart, but it is also the trigger waiting to fire. Crisis and tragedy tear along lives, and most fall away into darkness. But a few remain standing, cut deep, but more than alive. Was it just luck that they were still breathing, or was chance the dice that would cast their lives into the games that lied in wait? Could they go back to normal, walk over the chalk outline of someone lost, and forget the scars that would keep their secrets, or would they race blindly into danger and challenge all odds? What would they do with a second chance? How hard would they play, and how far would they go to push themselves beyond the limit? And what price would they pay in the end? Life is the delicate spider web orchestrated by the conflict defined within, and luck is the grace that takes us by hand, the haunted photograph of soul, and the tears of rain that pour over words of love forever gone. And the bullet strikes the concrete wall, the barrier between life and death, and in its wake does freedom wait.