You shudder to think how fast it would vanish if you did anything but.

“Don’t treat me like a boss,” Blanco keeps telling people with a thin gray smile. Needless to say, he’ll also draw international distributors to a comedy that might otherwise be quite local in appeal. Yet as played with an inspired fusion of mundanity and menace by Bardem - his natural earthy charisma tamped down beneath shapeless suiting, wire-rimmed glasses and a lank, frosted swadge of executive hair - he’s curiously riveting, and the best reason this amusing but gazpacho-temperature satire has for being. But with each chaotic plot turn of Spanish director Fernando León de Aranoa’s anti-corporate comedy, it becomes clearer that Blanco is the blandest possible incarnation of pure evil: a man with nary a principle, much less a personality, to his name. One is driven by Anton Chigurh, the taciturn, helmet-haired serial killer played to Oscar-winning effect by Javier Bardem in “No Country for Old Men.” At the wheel of the other is Blanco, the grayly respectable factory CEO essayed by the same actor in “ The Good Boss.” Seems like an easy choice, though by the end of the latter film, you might be inclined to take your chances with the psychopath.īlanco probably won’t kill you not by his own hand, at least. Say you’re hitching a ride at the side of a lonely highway, and two cars slow down at once.

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