rshjaggotta
A Masterpiece An edge of the seat thriller that keeps you hooked up on the suspense and reveals one of the finest plot twists ever in the final 15 mins of the movie. The eerie setting and the horror element add to the suspense and keep you guessing till the very end This is a must watch. Don't miss it
Myriam Nys
The good news : there are enough twists and turns in this thriller to give a formula one driver a headache. The bad news : there are enough twists and turns in this thriller to give a formula one driver a headache. And the result, sadly, is too contrived, busy and artificial to be truly suspenseful.At least a number of performances defy logic. If I were a young and callous opportunist who had murdered my spouse, and if I were being interviewed by the police, I'd try to fake at least a semblance of grief : I'd cry into an handkerchief, sob, rant, tell rambling stories about that one time my own sweet darling gave me a cocker spaniel pup for my birthday, and so on. Here we've got a murderer who is waving a giant flag saying "The old witch has croaked and boy, I couldn't care less". It's a novel approach, though perhaps not what one would expect from a man who is supposed to be wily and clever.There are also a number of missed opportunities. A morgue, a disappearing corpse, a morgue guard fleeing in blind terror, the dead changing place or identity, adulterous lovers planning a murder, various objects showing up from nowhere - think of the kind of bloodcurdling thriller and/or chilling horror story a reasonably competent director could make of these elements. But in this movie the various things going bump in the night couldn't scare any well-adapted six-years old.Still, I've got to say that I was glad to watch a Spanish film. It made a nice change to the usual Anglo-Saxon fare and provided some nicely exotic or unusual accents. Besides, the idea of a corpse suddenly disappearing from a well-regulated morgue is quite intriguing.
gridoon2018
As thrillers about night-long police interrogations go, "El Cuerpo" is better than Giuseppe Tornatore's "A Pure Formality", and about as good as "The Usual Suspects"! It's consistently absorbing, relentlessly intense, and a marvel of misdirection. There are some marvellous scenes that Hitchcock would approve of - the one in the toilet immediately comes to mind. José Coronado, as the persistent detective, Hugo Silva & Aura Garrido as the partners-in-crime who can feel the noose tightening around their necks, and Belén Rueda as the rich, possessive heiress whose dead body's disappearance sets the well-designed plot in motion, give depth to their characters, making this more than a "genre" piece. But make no mistake, "El Cuerpo" is mainly a gift for thriller / mystery lovers. *** out of 4.
The Couchpotatoes
If you like intriguing movies where you try to figure out what happened then El Cuerpo is just the kind of movie you need to watch. I like mystery/thrillers, it's one of my favorite kind of genres, and most of the time you kinda figure out what happened before the end. But with El Cuerpo I didn't see it coming in a million years. And that's what makes this movie stand above the rest. Besides a good story, you of course need also good actors and good filming. Well all those ingredients are present in this movie. From the beginning till the end you are captivated by the story and wonder what really happened, with the end as the absolute climax. I will for sure watch this movie again in the future in the hope that I forgot about the story even though it's gonna be difficult. Highly recommended!