Lisboa

Another rather silly Maura vehicle, but held my attention with significantly more success. It’s your average chase thriller, complete with the obligatory sex-in-car scene 2/3 through. I was wondering if the DVD blurbs are designed to be in balance with the actual quality of the films they describe… from “Berta is sexy, mysterious, and possibly insane” I knew this would be awesomely bad. But possibly insane? She’s treated as fundamentally credible from the start, yet our hero doesn’t get it until he hears the story from a third party, and I think this is meant to be a revealing moment for the audience, too. “That sensible man just confirmed everything that crazy lady said!” Actually there are a variety of things in this film I could probably take offense to, but it’s fluff. I really need to get back into the habit of watching good movies.