J. A. Bayona directs Enzo Vogrincic, Matías Recalt and Agustín Pardella in this Spanish retelling of the infamous plane crash over the Andes in 1972 where a barely surviving rugby team became gentile cannibals.

It doesn’t have the line “Please eat my sister.” but it feels like all roads are leading there in the first half. You get more of a sense of the gruelling calamity they endured over months than in 1992’s Alive. Still, feels a little sanitised and again uses spirituality as a smock to cover up a clear case of survival of the fittest. I doubt we will ever know the true “true story”. Well made but worthy. I wanna see Tobe Hooper or Rob Zombie’s take on this history.

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Perfect Double Bill: The Impossible (2012)

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