‘To the end’ – You complete me

Kaylee is a former boxing champion who, despite having retired, continues to train with one purpose: Enter the murky world of women trafficking to find her missing younger sister. ‘Until the end’ is a solvent suspense thriller that under its dull, dry and cold generic appearance hides a more stimulating development than usual. Curious, but not necessarily better, more interesting or more effective. It is, to understand us, a deconstruction with a mood much more dramatic than festive, allegedly more realistic and close than usual in this type of story, generally abandoned to the playful and food. Therefore, it is not exploitation cinema to use, being a film with a more restless, raw and also sadder personality that borrows the conventions of the genre to hit the most unwary viewer with them. It is, but at the same time it is not while resorting to the lack of answers as the main spur. That is, whoever likes fictions where everything is well chewed will be disappointed: The stimulating thing about ‘Hasta el final’ is that, like life, it stays halfway anywhere; to put it in some way, as if he were waiting for a program like Carles Porta’s ‘Crimes’ that could one day shed light on the darkness. Or us as viewers are supposed to have the ability to think for ourselves. It is, basically, an inconclusive film that, like ‘Pig’, allows itself the luxury of perverting expectations with the complicity of a very good leading performance, in this case the boxer Kali Reis. A contrapié work called to annoy, especially the most purists. A relatively incomplete film that halfway to nowhere and everywhere at the same time, does not seek our acceptance as much as our understanding. More stimulating, curious. More, not necessarily better, more interesting or more effective.

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