A drama with touches of a Spanish thriller. It has no action, the only action is that of the trailer. It is about a Spanish businessman who goes to Africa to look for a kidnapped person and fix a problem that leaves them money, but what he finds is far from that. Quality. Entertaining. Good effects and shots, only in two moments they are fully achieved. Good performances. A Spanish-African mix like "Adú". It has some slightly confusing moments so you have to follow it all. The ending is disconcerting and somewhat abrupt for the entire sequence that it takes. Talk about corruption, power, the corrupted politics of countries, how the system deceives us and does not let you climb. The only problem is a chase scene where they can't stop the protagonist and everyone has guns. To spend the afternoon.
Black Beach
2020
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
Black Beach
2020
Action / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy / Thriller
29% - Audience
5.6Keywords: husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily secretspolitical repressionnegotiator
Plot summary
Carlos Fuster is a Spanish CEO who lives in Brussels (Belgium) working for an important USA oil company. Married with a 8-months pregnant Susan and with his mother Elena who works as a veteran United Nations' diplomatic, Carlos' lives in a upper-class full of luxury hoping to turn in associate of the company and with plan to move with Susan to New York City to get a better life. His plans turn bad when his bosses chose him to negotiate in a remote African island country where he lived time ago after to know that Steve Campbell, an American engineer, has been kidnapped by a Calixto Batete, a former Carlos' friend. In the belief to be a fast and easy work, Carlos back to the country living in a house property of León, son of president Gregorio Ndong, and meeting again Alejandra, a Spanish NGO cooperator who lives in a boat with her friend and assistant Eva. However, troubles starts to appear by everywhere: Carlos learns that Ada, Carlos' former love interest, married Calixto years ago to care Calixto Jr., Carlos' son that he believed to be aborted by her eight years ago, and that she was arrested and imprisoned in the Black Beach jail. Looking for his son and suspecting a cover-up, Carlos discovers that Calixto is not the kidnapper, but a fugitive who with Campbell discovered secret files implicating the oil company in illegal activities with the president Ndong related with the genocide of a local tribe named zande. Carlos' attempt to know the truth cause that General Mba, Black Beach's warden, moves his soldiers following Carlos in idea that he find the files by him. Discovering a reality more dirty than he expected, Carlos visits Ada's mother Claudina in the desire to save Calixto before he be killed by Ndong's henchmen, but according time passes, Carlos finds himself in a race against time to locate the files with horrible consequences: Carlos finds Calixto just to be executed by Mba in front of him. Not finding the papers, Carlos escapes and returns to visit Mama Claudina to learn that all the residents of her building have been assassinated including the own Claudina, who had hidden the files. Running with it, in the escape Alejandra tries to save him from Mba just to be shot to dead by a helicopter during a wild running by a slum in zande territory, where Mba is killed when he was going to kill Carlos. Locating finally his son Calixto Jr. and getting a treat to comeback Brussels with Susan, Carlos' try for reporting the happened will make him discover that there are realities more dirty than any remote African island country.
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To spend the afternoon.
It's not always an easy task to decode about powerful people at powerful places
What worked: The strongest aspect of the movie that caught my attention has to be the African culture that I was able to discover, at least superficially. Around half the movie is in Africa and that's fun to watch. The movie has an interesting screenplay that has a scope for a fine movie, if not a great one. What did not work: Screenplay was okay and the movie started fine. It went downwards afterwards. The narrative gets corrupted and mingled in between making it messier and unattractive. I think the movie could have been a better watch if the execution was done better. The editing and action sequences in Africa were not well choreographed. The movie had mediocre acting, an average plot execution making it a superficial project wanting to be smart and intelligent. The movie is not without plotholes. Final verdict: it's an okay movie about something familiar in an unfamiliar settings
What Was That All About?
Black Beach is like showing up for a movie twenty minutes into it. Some guy from Spain is supposed to go to an African country to try and get a kidnapped American engineer back. Some people he used to know were the kidnappers. The country's army gets involved trying to get some documents back to prevent a corrupt government from taking over. The guy's wife is almost nine months pregnant. His mom works as a diplomat in the United Nations. A lot of people get killed. The guy decides to raise the kidnapper's son whom he may have fathered. There's is so much going on that by the time it was done I didn't know what the hell I'd just watched. In the end, all I know is that the guy is unemployed, he has a new daughter and the boy he brought home likes to take baths. If you feel the need to be confused, then, by all means, watch this movie.