Nowhere is a Spanish film directed by Albert Pinto. It took five screenwriters to come up with this one. The authors of this little adventure are Ernest Riera, Miguel Ruiz, Indiana Lista, Seanne Winslow, and Teresa Rosendoy. Anna Castillo and Tamar Novas star as a young married couple fleeing a tyrannical government in Spain. Castillo’s Mia is quite pregnant, so they are even more motivated to hoof it out of what is becoming a warzone. Their escape involves being smuggled to Ireland in a shipping container. Mia is separated from her husband, and her fellow escapees are slaughtered. She manages to stay hidden, however a storm causes the shipping container to be dumped in the ocean. As predicted, there are some supplies that make survival possible. Also, her baby decides that this would be a good time to emerge into the world, so Mia has someone else to keep alive.
I am not sure why there needed to be five writers on this. The film turned out to be suspenseful, but Mia has some unbelievable luck in the midst of her unexpected sea disaster. It’s not explained how she knew how to rig some of contraptions she concocted throughout the saga. She demonstrated some skills that would make MacGyver envious. Of course, MacGyver was pretty hard to buy into at times too.
Castillo does put in a pretty impressive performance in spite of some dodgy plot turns. She is a good actress, and I was rooting for Mia to make it.
The visual effects were nicely executed. There was an encounter with a whale that was quite compelling. The film was quite stunning visually.
There were one or two moments I couldn’t quite predict, so that makes this a little better than many other movies with a similar scenario. The movie still has a few shortcomings in the writing. Castillo’s performance did help me forgive some of those flaws but not all of them.
Nowhere is not a terrible movie, but it still fails to make a lasting impression. Even Castillo’s performance doesn’t hit this out of the park for me.
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