"Carlos the Terrorist" is a failed cinematic experiment. The experiment being the utter lack of dialogue. In its place, we get an information dump at the beginning via off-screen narration, a couple of internal monologues, and a gratingly loud score. It's a bad trade-off. There is not a single exciting action scene in this movie, though at least in the first 70 minutes there is some activity (it could be retitled "Run Carlos Run"); the last 20 minutes are just laughably padded. Andrés García does look great shirtless, though - there is an extended sequence in the middle where he is disarming a bomb (or something like that) and he is only in his bathing trunks for no apparent reason except to show us his hot bod. And it is definitely hot - but the movie is cold. * out of 4.
Review of Carlos el terrorista
