Torrente

"Torrente: el brazo tonto de la ley", is an spanish comedy from 1999, directed, written and starred by the filmmaker Santiago Segura.

I get to this movie in my adolescence (2005/2006), when I started to get bored of typical Hollywood’s blockbuster, so put my attention in foreign movies (outside USA and Chile). Casually, my uncle recommended me a Spanish movie from director Alex de la Iglesia, titled “El dia de la Bestia”, a comedy/horror film about the final battle of a priest and a heavy metal fan against Satan. Well, I really enjoyed that movie, and one of the main reasons was the heavy metal fan played by Santiago Segura. Since that, I became an assiduous watcher of Spanish movies, and a fan of Alex de la Iglesia and Santiago Segura.

Ok, returning to our subject, Torrente is a private detective (ex policeman), who claims to be the Spanish James Bond, but is actually the antithesis. His life is a mess, addicted to alcohol and cocaine, fat, racist, xenophobic and totally incompetent in any task, so only he and a couple of teenagers believe he is a national hero. One day, and just for coincidence, find out a drug trafficking network and decide to put end to it and keep the money of a big “drug deal”, with the help of his teenager sidekick.

The movie was lots of laugh, with a really unique sense of humor, putting in evidence cultural aspects of Spanish society of that time and featuring an antihero who steals the affection of watchers with an irreverent way of law enforcement.

This scene show a little bit what i'm talking about, enjoy (formed criteria)