A script comprised entirely of cliches; acting so wooden you could build a raft with it; and direction/editing so clumsy and inept that most of the main points of the plot (such as it is) are almost impossibly to follow without pausing and rewinding. Apart from some interesting arial shots of the Canaries (and a lot of hokey cliche scenes of daytime mist and spooky forests) this is a real stinker. When the heroine gets offed 30 mins before the end and the hero visits her in the morgue, there's such a lack of emotion or tension I honestly thought for a moment it might all be a send-up. That's how unbelievably and disconnected this film is. Avoid. Hide. Wrap the mist around you and wait till it's over. That's the most excitement you'll have all day.

A good, steadily-evolving plot, based on the homonymous book about a complex, multilayered murder investigation. Great direction, superb characters and acting, wonderful settings. Do not expect caffeinated action, explosions, or lots of blood. To fully enjoy this movie, you need to be capable of following the dialogs in the native language (including not just the Spanish, but also the particular idioms of the Canary Islands). This is because the film relies on skillful interviews and revealing observations as means of solving a cold case, rather than resorting to forensic techniques and alike.

I won't go into the details of the plot or acting, as the previous two reviewers did it and the movies is not very wide spread, so head on to those reviews if you need details or spoilers. I' d say opinion of a middle viewer, I expected a thriller with more guts and action, this is a boring slow moving movies that never builds up to a climax and you just don't care about any of the characters. I did watch it because I often discover pearls among European crime dramas, but this was not worth it. It involves drugs and murder and some nice seaview vistas and the latter is the only thing that makes it watchable.