After the success of the acclaimed movie "Ya no estoy aquí", Fernando Frías tries with a smarter but unfortunatelly not so strong project, "No voy a pedirle a nadie que me crea".

The plot turns around one tragedie after another, mixed with black humour and smart analogies.

At times the pace might be slow, but Fernando knows how to build a problematic atmosphere and uses all his resources to develop the characters and the chaotic situations they are going through.

The weaker point of this movie resides on the screenplay too, Fernando tries to cover a lot of subplots that it's hard to focus on one, but the performances of everyone involved in this movie, specially the staring couple - Dario Yazbek Bernal and Natalia Solián - are so good, that its flaws might be forgiven.

I definitely wasn't sure where this was going at the beginning, especially giving some gratuitous porn at the films opening. But soon enough we get an idea that we are aboard a Mexican film noir train transposed to Barcelona, all the better to reflect on the continuing legacy of post colonialism. The film has a lot to say but does it by telling the story of the hapless hero sucked into a ruthless world of organised crime, an insidious aspect of modern Mexico and from which there is no escape. I liked the way the film stays small and personal to tell a bigger story. The acting is great and the direction is steadied and assured.

Juan is a normal everyday guy, but after a run in at a bookshop his trip to Barcelona is cute short and he finds himself in with the Mexican mob. There wasn't really much that I liked about this film. They first 25 minutes were dreary and not a single things happened. It picks up a little at the thirty minutes mark as we get into some crime stuff as promised but it's very little. The rest of the film to me didn't make sense. The only thing I did enjoy was valentinas character and her wacky dancing. Her character was the only one that had substance but sadly the movie could not be saved it was just not all that great.