![]() Next up is a weapon’s dealer with his heart ripped out, Iron Man style, but before the case gets any weirder Cosme’s last day is already over, leaving Rey on his own. (L-R) Brays Efe, Verónica Echegui and Javier Rey team up in ‘Unknown Origins’. Nearby, a page has been ripped out of an early Marvel comic, with the words “origin story” scratched into it – a not-so-subtle clue about what the killer’s MO might be. The first call of the day takes them to a grisly crime scene (complete with torches, rusty chains, and a thick haze of David Fincher grime) where a mild-mannered scientist has been force-fed steroids and skin-pigmentation drugs until he dies looking like The Incredible Hulk. In other words, the film starts off exactly like Se7en, with Brad Pitt and Morgan Freeman’s characters given a modern Madrid makeover. ![]() Javier Rey is David, a strait-laced, no-nonsense detective who partners up with sage old Cosme (Antonio Resines) on his last day before retirement. Landing somewhere between a buddy cop comedy, a grown-up noir and a TV-grade superhero show, the tone is all over the place, but it has just enough good ideas to make it worth a watch. What if Stan Lee wrote Se7en? That’s the basic hook of Spanish thriller Unknown Origins – a film about a serial killer who styles all his murders after comic book characters. ![]()
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