In a rare failure of form, Juan José Campanella, director of Oscar winning The Secret in Their Eyes, finds himself in a relegation battle with the release of joint Spanish and Argentinian venture The Unbeatables.
When playground bully Flash (Anthony Head) returns to his small village to crush his nemesis, the one boy who had ever beaten him at anything, local table football god Amedeo (Rupert Grint), the village is threatened by destruction. If he is to save his village, Amadeo, with the help of table footballers come to life (and his VERY annoying girlfriend), must defeat his nemesis in a football match of epic proportions.
Originally released in 2013 in Latin America, The Unbeatables has been dubbed so terribly that had the plot not been stretched so thin it was it impossible to see the point; this would still be a poor film. Strangely, the English dialogue has been focused more on matching the sounds to the characters mouths as opposed to making any sense. The writers seemed to have enough difficulty weaving together the human/table footballer plotlines together as it was, without it being capitulated by often nonsensical dialogue. Unfortunately, what could have been, and what seemed to be a light-hearted film about the power of imagination turned into something, well, something almost impossible to explain.
Half the film is spent re-uniting table footballers, only for them to have almost minimal effect on the conclusion and whilst widely advertised using the table footballers as their sales pitch, Amedeo seemed the tentative focus of the film, a character almost absent from any posters. The Unbeatables would have been better suited focusing itself on one set of characters and not attempting to mingle them at all. The characters were hollow and the settings, yes fantastical, but often ridiculously so.
Not much can really be said for the acting performances, they were generic for the most part and downright terrible in some, but the blame really lies with the script.
With the whole film distracting from the genius line that is ‘Trust me – I’ve worked at FIFA’ The Unbeatables is unfortunately not a film I’d recommend.
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