Review Of Santo: Raúl Arévalo and Bruno Gagliasso in an Action Packed Thriller With Hints of Horror

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Review Of Santo: Raúl Arévalo and Bruno Gagliasso in an Action Packed Thriller With Hints of Horror

The Spanish-Brazilian crime drama series Santo will be available on Netflix on September 16, 2022. Carlos López makes the show, and Vicente Amorim is in charge of the direction. It is the first Spanish movie that was shot in both Spain and Brazil. Nostromo Pictures made it. There are 6 episodes in total, and each one lasts between 43 and 50 minutes.

The cast of the series includes Bruno Gagliasso as Cardona, Raúl Arévalo as Millán, Victória Guerra as Bárbara, Greta Fernández as Susi, Maarten Dannenberg as Olin Hansen, Luiz Felipe Lucas, Iñaki Mur as Guillermo Alonso, Núria Prims, Judith Fernández and María Vázquez as Arantxa.

Santo Review

The following is how Netflix describes the show:

Two police officers on opposite sides of the Atlantic look for a dangerous international drug dealer whose face has never been seen.

The Santo review doesn’t give anything away.

It’s a thriller show with occult elements that sometimes feel like horror. It tells the story of Santo, who is the most wanted drug dealer in the world, but whose face has never been seen. Cardona and Millán, two police officers who go after him, don’t agree with each other at all at first. But if they want to solve the case and stay alive, they will have to learn to work together and understand each other.

At the beginning of the series, there is a note saying that the police have been looking for a drug lord who also does bloodthirsty rituals for years, but no one knows who that person or the cult leader is. And the episode starts off with a violent scene: two masked bikers shoot a man in a car. They then take his son from the back seat and set fire to the car.

Here, we meet Millán, our first main lead officer. He was related to the person who was burned to ashes. But the person was a drug dealer, which shows that Millán is not a law-abiding police inspector like most. Instead, he is a crooked one. At the same time, the headless body of a child with no brain is found in the sea in Salvador, Brazil.

It is said to be a typical sign of Santo’s work, which pushes federal officer Ernesto Cardona to join “Santo’s” gang. The fact that this bad guy has a lot of power makes this mission very hard. Knowing that he might have him by his side, but he won’t know who, gives him an innate fear that danger is always present.

But the secret mission goes wrong because his cover is blown. Months later, we find Cardona lying almost dead in an abandoned factory in Spain. His eyelids are cut, and he has no idea what happened to him. The last time he was seen, he was with Barbara, who was said to be the lover of an unseen crime boss. This makes it even harder to guess what might have happened to them.

The series is able to keep up the mystery about the crime boss who hasn’t been seen right up until the very end. The bloody rituals of a satanic cult add a touch of horror and fear to the story, which is otherwise a typical police crime-solving show.

The story is also about getting back at someone. Every person in the story has a backstory, and everyone has their own reasons for doing their jobs and going after such a dangerous criminal. With some experienced actors working on the project, the acting and cinematography are both up to par.

Santo Review

Summing Up: Santo

The series is full of action and suspense, but there are also some big problems. Some of the time, the flashbacks and jumps in time without any labels are hard to follow. But there are only 6 episodes, and if it takes you until 3 or 4 episodes to figure out what happened when, it’s a mistake in the story.

Also, the black fade-out is used too often, which breaks up the story when other transitions could have been used. Even though it’s clear that Millán and Cardona are the story’s main characters, the female characters feel like they’re just there to help the leads get ahead. Also, considering how the series ended, they could have done a better job of drawing their characters.

When it came to the ending, I was honestly surprised and confused most of the time. I had some hints that ‘this’ character was the unseen criminal, but as the show went on, I could no longer think that was the case. But I’m not happy with what I’ve learned about who it is.