NetFlix was Wrong!

Kilometer Zero DVD cover

Netflix recommended a foreign film with 4.5 out of 5 stars. Hmmm, let's see: Set in Spain, artsy film not unlike Love|Actually, english subtitles...sure okay, I'm in.

This movie was astonishingly bad. Needlessly vulgar, incredibly slow, painfully inane, and simply of little artistic value. Watching this film will add nothing to your life, but will only make you crave to get back that 1.5 hours of mental stagnation.

Redeeming qualities: Few and far between. The older lady "Silvia" portrayed by Mercà Pons (I think?), was quite good when she discovered that she just had an affair with a son she abandoned 26 years earlier. She had hired him as an escort, and did not realize who he was until afterwards. The good looking blonde "Amor" played by the famous Spanish "B" movie actress Silke was subtly funny as she starts the day as a huge optimist and goes through a series of events that renders her shaken and miserable. Hmmm.. sound like fun so far? Just wait until she visits the police, and promptly gets a gun put to her head and the trigger pulled on an empty clip, repeatedly. This was VERY disturbing behavior, and quite unpleasant to watch, and hugely unnecessary.

Of course, the directors quickly remembered that this was a "love" story and then this same deranged police officer proposes to Amor and she giggles, heaves her pertly ample bosum for effect, and accepts. All within a 45 minute timeline in the movie. Sure......

Bah, what a bad taste this film has left in my mouth.