Last adventure in Torrente series starred by a racist , rude , despicable and drunken detective . This ¨Torrente V : Misión Eurovegas¨ has a good cast as Alec Baldwin , Anna Simon , Neus Asensi , Carlos Areces , Chus Lampreave and many others . Fifth entry in ¨Torrente series¨ starred by the most grotesque detective and well played by Santiago Segura , he is a real private dick , a poster child for police corruption . Featuring politically incorrect private detective Torrente (Santiago Segura) , he is a macho man , lazy , rude , sex maniac , drunkard , Athletic fan , caring only about protecting and serving himself . He is a Bad Santa of the police force , a peculiar and fatty man , being a ¨El Fari¨ fan , too . Despite that , he still manages to get the job done . Torrente follows the exploits of Jose Luis Torrente , a piggy and uneducated man acting for his own selfish purports . In previous outings Torrente was rejected from police duty and he returned to private investigation . Here crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew , as Cataluña is an independent country , El Fari is dead and his football stadium is destroyed . Out of prison is waiting Jesulin (Jesulín de Ubrique) and former sidekick Cuco (from Torrente 2: Mision en Marbella is now played by Julian Lopez ; Gabino Diego, who originally played that role and also had a small cameo on the first movie Torrente: El Brazo Tonto De Ley , has not returned to the franchise since 2001) . Later on , the botcher ex-dirty private eye forms a new band of underdogs (Carlos Areces , Florentino Fernandez , Fernando Esteso , Anna Simon , among others) to carry out a big robbing . Torrente gets involved in the middle of a nasty's plot to heist the great casino Madrid-EuroVegas , joining forces with a powerful and wheel-bounded American mobster (Alec Baldwin) . As we find our anti-hero in a delicate situation but he can count on to help him some people , as Cuco and his equally freak friends .
This is 5º installment and inferior sequel in Torrente series . These films are made to entertain , and this movie , especially for a good time and a nice entertainment . "Torrente" is a passable and unapologetic dark comedy with great special effects , it has several funny and hilarious scenes and quite successful action scenes with persecution , car crashes and many other things . The picture contains thrills , noisy action , tongue-in-cheek , grotesque situations and above all , humor . Although there are also nudism , bad-mouthed language , bad taste jokes and profanities . ¨Torrente 5¨ is written, directed, produced and stars Segura, whose production house Amiguetes Entertainment produced the film , UIP holds Spanish distribution rights . The screenplay is absurd as well as crazy , just what makes laugh a lot , that the character "Torrente" a very slutty , clumsy , sexist , Machista , extreme-right-wing , on a real person is despicable , being not adequate , but this is a film that satirizes all this and that just means he's a pathetic character , though he also has his unsettling charms . This firth Torrente grossed moderate success at box office ; however ¨Torrente , El Brazo Tonto De Ley¨ set box office records in its day, took $707,000 and Torrente 2 grossed more than 22 million in 2001 . The film contains many cameos of famous people, familiar faces such as Chus Lampreave , Antonio De La Torre , Jose Luis Barragan , Pablo Motos , Neus Asensi , Falete , Ricardo Darin , El Gran Wyoming , Imanol Arias , Josema Yuste , Andreu Buenafuente , Silvia Abril , Manuel Tafalle , Andres Pajares , Carlos Latre , Maxi Iglesias , Jimmy Barnatan , Chiquito De Calzada and several others . Many of them famous from ¨Cuore¨ magazines . And the film is dedicated and in memory of Tony Leblanc . The cameos are very amusing and fun and there are lots of laughters and jokes . The movie contains a colorful and adequate cinematography by Teo Delgado . Thrilling as well as appropriate musical score by Roque Baños . The film takes advantage of impressive special effects , especially on its final part when takes place a breathtaking chase between cars and airplane , including : bound and leaps vehicles and expensive crashes . In fact , this Torrente was Nominated Goya Best Special Effects to Antonio Molina and Ferran Piquer . Santiago Segura dares to make films with total entertainment and bemusement . And "Torrente " is pure eschatological fun , it is 100 and some minutes of fun and laughters . It is a commendable effort by Santiago Segura to make a film like this . Few directors are able to achieve results as ¨Torrente¨ , the biggest box-office in Spain until ¨8 Apellidos Vascos¨. This film will not disappoint Santiago Segura fans.
The first instalment was this ¨Torrente El Brazo Tonto De La Ley¨ ; being followed by "Torrente 2: Mission in Marbella" with Juanito Navarro , Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez , Paloma Cela , Santi Millan , Jose Mota , Pablo Carbonel ,among others ; ¨Torrente 3 El Protector¨ in which the horrendous Spanish detective becomes a bodyguard , being performed by José Mota , Yvonne Sciò , Eduardo García , Fabio Testi ; ¨Torrente 4 Lethal crisis¨ with Kiko Rivera , Javier Gutiérrez . The movies were written by, directed by and starred popular Spanish comedian-director Santiago Segura and is getting the remake treatment from New Line Cinema ; all of them were produced by Andres Vicente Gomez, who exec produced the Academy Award-winning Belle Epoque
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