Roberto I recently saw this masterpiece of Latin American cinema. I've always taught that you don't need a big budget to make a big movie. Great movies relay on a great message, a solid statement. On this particular case "Whisky" from the beginning makes a point through its own images and pace. The viewer gets immersed in a routine, a horrible way of life of the main character (Jacobo Koller) that consists of living with no ambition, owning a horrible sock factory and going home with nothing... not a smile, not a desire, nothing, just the same routine over and over again. At the beginning when we see the same shots over and over, it seems like the movie is insisting upon itself, but is too important to state the point of the routine. We, as viewers get tired of watching this terrible life, imagine what it would be to live this life. When the main characters brother (Herman Koller) comes to Uruguay (a far more successful,and younger brother, that lives in Brazil), Jacobo asks Marta (an employee of his) to pretend she's his wife, probably to avoid criticism from his brother and to bare his brother's trip to Uruguay with someone else. Marta has the same features as Jacobo she lives a life of routine, with no surprises, nothing to take her out of her boredom. She's shy, and retrieved within herself, there will be a couple of scenes when we can see that probably Marta has been like this since she was a girl. Her relationship with Herman grows, she's in movement she wants something new. As for Jacobo he doesn't feel anything for life he's pessimistic, stubborn, a man with no dreams. The movie invites us to review our own life, are we going in a direction of routine and boredom? or are we looking for something new? Sometimes we can find that breath of life in the smallest of places, in the most unconventional of places, a book, a movie, a song, a trip, a person anything can give us something to live. Marta surely received that breath, and we all can.

Kirk Miller Following the more crowd-pleasing blockbusting antics of the likes of City of God and Amores Perros, it came as quite a surprise for this quieter, more restrained example of Latin cinema to perform so well on the 2004 international festival circuit.The Uruguayan directors Pablo Stoll and Juan Pablo Rebella, following their previous effort 25 Watts (2001), once again centre their story in the small, provincial town of Montevideo. Jacobo Koller owns a modest sock factory that employs a few local women, including Marta. A year after his mother's death, his successful businessman brother Hermann visits from Brazil to attend the memorial. Jacobo requests that Marta pretends to be his wife while his brother stays. After the ceremony, the three take an impromptu trip to a small seaside resort.While this premise may sound overly familiar from a million-and-one lightweight US sitcoms, the delivery is never short of fresh and intriguing. It rarely approaches the sort of twee sentimentality we might expect after reading a short synopsis. Almost nothing is said for the first half of the film as we observe the characters' drab, innocuous lives. And yet, despite this, the film somehow succeeds in upholding a surprisingly light and comic atmosphere. There are genuine moments of deadpan humour. The actors (schooled in the reticence of the national theatre) never force the comedy, in fact it is more often the camera that delivers the punchline; the constant repetition and rituals, the framing of the lanky Jacobo and squat Marta and a sudden romantic karaoke sequence that is all the more touching for its spontaneity.Like the titular drink, Whisky is warm, satisfying and definitely suitable for repeat viewings.

Henry Fields There are some people , such as the main character in "Whisky" that have become in such emotional disabled people: they can love and (what's worst) they can't be loved. They cling to their routine, maybe a job in a factory, they live a grey existence. They don't want to suffer anymore, so they shield themselves against the world. Any attempt to communicate to someone like that is in vain, and you run the risk of getting hurt."Whisky" ain't an easy-watching movie, in any possible way: short and static sequences in which we can almost hear the tic-tac of the clock. Such a slow rhythm that intends to give the audience that feeling of boredom in the character's lives.Besides, there're no big revelations in here, there's no catharsis, no teaching... So this dry Whisky (not on the rocks) is only for the most patient, for those who are used to bitter things. The rest of you may hate this...7/10

Dude-E this movie is just plain awful, dull characters, superficial storyline,no humor. tension, twists or anything challenging whatsoever you just keep wondering what the hell you've just watched for the past 90 minutes, because there is actually nothing going on in there. i just can't find one good thing about this movie it's boring, and you actually feel like it's gonna last forever, let me describe it that way: take 3 middle aged people, and let them spend couple of days together babbling nonsense on and on. and that's what you gonna get if you feel like sleeping. i usually watch lots of foreign movies and this is the worst iv'e seen this year, go watch the sea inside. cause this one just don't worth 90 minutes of your precious time.