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Too much of everything

One of my all time favorites.

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I do not get such high praise......Spanish thrillers are generally my favorite even if the production values are underwhelming--they still leave well-resourced but corporate-sequel dependent Hollywood in dust. Spanish directors are masters in what I think of as "onion" thrillers. It is a pleasure when they get it right and each peeling of the onion layer sets up a new playing field.a new stage .where the advantages and disadvantages for each character shift. .And one is constantly wondering about the implications and immerses in the ride. see .....for example the superb recent classics come to mind such as "the hidden face" or "the invisible guest".Unfortunately this movie is very predictable, sub-B grade movie that actually borders on tragedy/comedy (unintentionally of course). A guy on first day of his job as a cop ends up in the jail riot and to save himself has to hide his identity...the rest is about how he builds alliances, creates tension, and desperately fights to survive. I will not reveal the ending but it feels pointless in the end.....what was it all for???? In one unbelievable scene --no one from the prison guard's office or SWAT team's office can tell the pregnant wife to stay at home not get into rioting crowd??/ how is this possible in the age of cell phones???In contrast, the criminals are actually shown as a more real guys--harmlessly rowdy, but with rational demands -In one scene they actually scold the prison administrators and the government officials for being "rough" on rioting crowd--- and --the leader is shown as noble, sensitive, and generous ? His empathy for the "cop turned inmate" during a tragedy is more sincere than the outside colleagues and his bosses. But even so in some key scenes he is inconsistently gullible and even weak. . while the guards and the prison guard's colleagues are either idiots, ruthless, untrustworthy, or just plain incompetent. They even carry "guilt" expression on their faces as if they are the real villains. all the time. Avoid.

Juan Oliver shows up a day early for his prison guard job. He gets a tour when he gets hit on the head. He's unconscious and brought to rest in cell 211. At the same time, the inmates revolt and break free. Juan is abandoned in the lock cell. When he wakes up, he has to pretend to be an inmate as he develops a relationship with riot leader Malamadre. The rioters find 3 Basque ETA prisoners and the political implication explodes. The prison genre is a well-worn path. This one manages to create something new. The tension is unrelentingly high. Juan is so exposed that the story never lets up. It's a great cat and mouse game as well as an intense thriller.

Set in a Spanish prison. A riot breaks out, leaving a new guard on the inside where all the action is. His quick thinking to pretend to be a new prisoner saves his life for now... But the mayhem is only just beginning.The two main players, Malamadre (Luis Tosar) as the top dog inmate and Juan (Alberto Ammann) as the young newbie guard act their parts extremely well. The other prisoners and guards are also believable. Prison is definitely not somewhere I want to go! The movie is raw and realistic with the different fractions within the prison jostling for their position. The guards may not be any better than the prisoners. But it's also a movie about love, friendship and loyalty. Don't let the fact it's subtitled put you off. You won't even realise your reading it and will be gripped to your seat for two hours. You don't need megabucks of special effects and well known actors to have a great movie. Just a good story well acted. Any Hollywood remake is not going to be nearly as good as the original. So don't miss this one.

Cell 211 is a brilliant drama thriller that centers on rebellion and riot against the status quo. The movie quickly develops the characters with flashbacks and side stories and sets the premise and circumstances early on in the movie. The one thing that comes to mind while watching the movie is Murphy's Law; if something can go wrong, it will.Cell 211 is about two men, both of them in stark contrast with each other: one has everything to live for while the other has nothing to lose. It's a story of how a person falls victim to circumstance and ironically, ambition. The plot is set in a prison where the protagonist- a newly recruited guard- is caught in between a staged riot and is forced to pose as an inmate. Amidst the ulterior motives of the riot and the threat of a mole within the prison inmate foiling the riot attempt, the movie strikes a tense balance between control and chaos, where the protagonist attempts to maintain his impersonation in face of certain death.The movie is written spectacularly and portrays feelings of both betrayal and loyalty, and depicts how people show their true colors in face of changing circumstances to protect their own motives. The movie is a gradual portrayal of a man whose life changes in a day while inadvertently he himself changes with it. Cell 211 is an admirable movie which pulls viewers in quickly and keeps them on the edge of their seat, rooting for the main characters. A must see foreign film.