A young ambitious executive is entangled with a mysterious wellness center; the same that kept his boss there like forever, but just when he thinks he can help his boss out he finds himself diagnosed with the same curious illness that keeps all the guests here longing for the cure.
No menacing corridor goes unexplored and no mood is left unteased in this glossily atmospheric thriller where the 1 per cent have their own issues to worry about.
There is tremendous visual craft and inarguable style here, but none of the discipline, the sense of pacing and proportion that would allow the filmmaker's creative instincts to soar rather than merely splutter.
At 90 minutes it could have been an eerie, tricky, well-crafted thriller. At two hours its wheels start to fall off. And then it continues to limp along for another 30 minutes, after which you wonder what the point of it all was in the first place.
A project by the director of Pirates of the Caribbean, which includes elements as scabrous as incest, bizarre sex and gory scenes, doesn't deserve to be completely dismissed. [Full review in Spanish]