spoilers i rented tesis (or thesis in english) on the strength of director alejandro amenabar later effort the others. based on what a brilliantly measured and horrifyingly effective creepfest that film was and i assumed his earlier efforts would be of a similar quality and i was in the mood for some good horror. instead i wound up with the most tedious and preposterous excuse for a lame brained slasher movie i have seen since the german film anatomie (which this one kinda reminded me of). the plot has potential but it thrown away within the first 20 minutes. it revolves around innocent n pretty psychology student angela (ana torrent  a jessica harper deadringer) thesis on the subject of violence in films. through some far fetched circumstances too dumb to go into here and she winds up in possession of a nuff tape on which two men torture and mutilate and kill a young girl for the camera. angela and and her horror buff friend chema (fele martinez) are both shocked yet intrigued by the tape and decide to get to the bottom of who responsible for it. this leads to. well and nothing. they never really give a reason for why they want to find the girl killers (since they resolutely refuse to contact the police throughout any of the unfolding events and even when their own lives at risk) and the mystery itself is as limp as graham norton in a room full of bunny girls. there is only one proper clue (the type of camera the killers used is discovered) and that a) a really weak one and b) wheeled out in the first 20 minutes. the rest of the so called unravelling just occurs through blind luck and increasingly ridiculous plot twists and a slew of awful and transparent and thoroughly pointless red herrings that are chucked in merely to pad out the running time. seriously  amenabar might know his stuff about ghost stories but he clearly never read a detective book in his life. the key to a good whodunnit is to have a large cluster of potential suspects and to eliminate them one by one with clever deduction and the gradual discovery of more and more evidence and before moving in for the final twist. in tesis and potential spoiler ahead the killer identity is guessed correctly by the amateur wouldetectives almost instantly and then we get 100 minutes of the writer trying feebly to throw us off the scent until he runs out of ideas and throws his hands up and says ok and ya got me and it was him after all. as for any kind of logic or motive behind the crimes  no such luck. youre watching the wrong movie if that what youre after. the only thing that drags tesis down further from just being a dumb and badly written thriller is the way it actually tries to make some ludicrous and muddled up point about violence in films. i have no idea what stance it attempting to take on the subject but it seems determined to cram in a ton of misguided and confused psychobabble and in between the rest of the gibberish and and say look at me. i am political. the final scenes and in which the point of the movie is supposedly hammered home and are so utterly absurd and puerile and one can not help but wonder if amenabar feels embarrassed now when he watches this. if he doesn not and he certainly should. this is total amateur night at the slasher house stuff. overall i can not believe i wasted two whole hours (it felt like at least six) on this and just hoping something might happen. the urban legend of nuff films (and that is basically all they are and despite the way this film tries to suggest theyre some kind of criminal phenomenon sweeping the world. ) is an area that can be so tantalisingly exploited in good horror films (videodrome anyone. ) but it so easy to step over the line into childlike wouldo not it be cool if. territory with it (ie represent my little eye). tesis hits an all time low for the nuff movie genre. on every level and this one is better left dead and buried. i will award it a negative  and for some nice lighting and but that all it getting. 
spoilers i rented tesis (or thesis in english) on the strength of director alejandro amenabar later effort the others. based on what a brilliantly measured and horrifyingly effective creepfest that film was and i assumed his earlier efforts would be of a similar quality and i was in the mood for some good horror. instead i wound up with the most tedious and preposterous excuse for a lame brained slasher movie i have seen since the german film anatomie (which this one kinda reminded me of). the plot has potential but it thrown away within the first 20 minutes. it revolves around innocent n pretty psychology student angela (ana torrent  a jessica harper deadringer) thesis on the subject of violence in films. through some far fetched circumstances too dumb to go into here and she winds up in possession of a nuff tape on which two men torture and mutilate and kill a young girl for the camera. angela and and her horror buff friend chema (fele martinez) are both shocked yet intrigued by the tape and decide to get to the bottom of who responsible for it. this leads to. well and nothing. they never really give a reason for why they want to find the girl killers (since they resolutely refuse to contact the police throughout any of the unfolding events and even when their own lives at risk) and the mystery itself is as limp as graham norton in a room full of bunny girls. there is only one proper clue (the type of camera the killers used is discovered) and that a) a really weak one and b) wheeled out in the first 20 minutes. the rest of the so called unravelling just occurs through blind luck and increasingly ridiculous plot twists and a slew of awful and transparent and thoroughly pointless red herrings that are chucked in merely to pad out the running time. seriously  amenabar might know his stuff about ghost stories but he clearly never read a detective book in his life. the key to a good whodunnit is to have a large cluster of potential suspects and to eliminate them one by one with clever deduction and the gradual discovery of more and more evidence and before moving in for the final twist. in tesis and potential spoiler ahead the killer identity is guessed correctly by the amateur wouldetectives almost instantly and then we get 100 minutes of the writer trying feebly to throw us off the scent until he runs out of ideas and throws his hands up and says ok and ya got me and it was him after all. as for any kind of logic or motive behind the crimes  no such luck. youre watching the wrong movie if that what youre after. the only thing that drags tesis down further from just being a dumb and badly written thriller is the way it actually tries to make some ludicrous and muddled up point about violence in films. i have no idea what stance it attempting to take on the subject but it seems determined to cram in a ton of misguided and confused psychobabble and in between the rest of the gibberish and and say look at me. i am political. the final scenes and in which the point of the movie is supposedly hammered home and are so utterly absurd and puerile and one can not help but wonder if amenabar feels embarrassed now when he watches this. if he doesn not and he certainly should. this is total amateur night at the slasher house stuff. overall i can not believe i wasted two whole hours (it felt like at least six) on this and just hoping something might happen. the urban legend of nuff films (and that is basically all they are and despite the way this film tries to suggest theyre some kind of criminal phenomenon sweeping the world. ) is an area that can be so tantalisingly exploited in good horror films (videodrome anyone. ) but it so easy to step over the line into childlike wouldo not it be cool if. territory with it (ie represent my little eye). tesis hits an all time low for the nuff movie genre. on every level and this one is better left dead and buried. i will award it a negative  and for some nice lighting and but that all it getting. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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