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February 12, 2024
A Spanish remake of Alive. I'm not sure why they felt it was necessary to tell this story again, especially since the film hardly deviates from the original. It doesn't add that much, at the same time, it's not noticeably worse either. It's just the same story, told in the same way, four decades later.
When a Uruguayan rugby team goes on a vacation, their flight crashes over the Andes mountains. A good many of them survive the crash, but they are lost and starving in a vast, unhospitable area. When no help is coming, they have to figure out how they are going to survive this ordeal.
The performances are decent and the setting is majestic, but that's about all this film has to offer. The story was familiar territory, the drama is a little too cinematic at times and 140 minutes is a bit much for what is mostly a single-location film. It's not a terrible upgrade, but it is a pointless one.