From the first scene, the Spanish film's bleak and foreboding tone carries the action-centering on a police officer tasked with working alongside a new partner to oversee a "high-risk transfer" involving the deadly head of a Romanian gang across icy, barren terrain-even as the plot melts away to reveal a more conventional revenge movie slicked with brutal violence. Below Zero is a particularly gruesome example of what the "transfer-gone-wrong" genre has to offer, a close-quarters thriller that works best when it keeps its characters confined to the tightest possible space. Any time a group of incarcerated individuals get placed in a large vehicle (the more box-like and state-of-the-art the better), you can guarantee something unbearably tense is about to go down.
Prisoner transportation might be the task with the worst success-to-failure ratio in all of action movie-dom. Cast: Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde, Isak Férriz, Luis Callejo