Everybody Has a Plan - film review

Ana Piterbarg's empty, implausible, interminable Argentinian neo-noir stars Viggo Mortensen playing a double role of unpleasant twin brothers
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31 May 2013

Ana Piterbarg's empty, implausible, interminable Argentinian neo-noir seems put on this earth purely to show off Viggo Mortensen’s Spanish accent (it's excellent; well done, Viggo). The Lord of the Rings heartthrob plays twin brothers Pedro and Augustin, both of them unpleasant and, it turns out, pretty stupid. Gorgeously gritty shots of Pedro’s home, on the bayou-like Tigre Delta, make you wish you were watching a documentary about the area, now being redeveloped as a retreat for the super-rich. There's money in them waterways — and, one imagines, some real drama, too.

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