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Un crimen argentino (2022)

A fairly good thriller marred by heavy, badly fitting, politics

The core of this movie is a fairly good police thriller that begins with a kidnapping in Rosario, Argentina. Because of the prominence of the kidnapping victim - and perhaps the communist insurgency Argentina experienced at the time - the plot has the police and the military looking for the culprits in parallel and at times intersecting and overlapping. The criminological plot is enjoyable, as is the inevitable but less important romance. The aspects of the plot involving the military authorities intruding on the police investigation, riding roughshod over it, and then the eventual denouement, however, feel incoherent and fairly contrived. Whatever one thinks of the Argentinian military dictatorship (I don't really care) the brutal behavior by members of the military doesn't necessarily have an apparent internal logic and partly really seems contrived. If you need to kill time and want to see a bit of Argentina, why not?