Director: Fernando González Molina
Cast: Marta Etura , Leonardo Sbaraglia , Carlos Librado , Benn Northover , Pedro Casablanc , Paco Tous , Elvira Mínguez , Marta Larralde , Eduardo Rosa , Álvaro Cervantes , Itziar Aizpuru
Plot: Inspector Amaia Salazar confronts the origins of her nightmares as she unfolds the darkest secrets of the Baztan Valley. Amaia investigates several suspicious infant deaths and horrific rituals. Meanwhile, people around her risk grave danger. As The Part 3 in the Baztan (Invisible Guardian) Trilogy Concludes!
My Movie Review: The movie is efficient finale to reveal the mysteries drawn from their setting and the reimagining of the land’s myths as it starts on a high note with thrilling chase and dark shocking visual of a baby in a casket you get the grim and silent intensity' as it strike a thunder! There is a lot of bloodshed in Offering to the Storm, which is to be expected after all, its the third film in trilogy that has focused on murder and cults with grisly violence and quick suicide:0 Amaia is called in to investigate when a man is arrested after fleeing with the body of his dead baby as they discover that the father himself was responsible with the intention of making his child a sacrificial offering as Amaia probes further learns the haunting superstitions enveloping Baztan, whilst searching for her Missing Mother and reigniting' affair with Judge Juez Markina:) There's a lot of tell and not enough show and when there is indeed some show, it’s slick, silly and gripping' maybe a loose in the middle but come to pick-up the pieces towards the last shot!
Critic/User Reviews: Offering to the Storm props the audience to expect an overwhelming answer to everything which is part of the trilogy's success. It's a dissatisfying and anticlimactic movie that still manages to run us through the ringer. [Novelist] Dolores Redondo and later [director] Fernando González Molina have shown that we also know how to make trilogies in Spain. Grisly violence, suicide in overlong sequel. This page-turn trilogy was always better at eating up your time than filling it. It never seems to end there's a mess of subplots and side plots so that most of the movie is filler for the central story. 2hrs 20 is a long slog for a pretty simple story if they just stuck to it but they have to drag along so much. Keep in mind also she's a terrible detective who does almost no detective work. Dramatically strained mix the features of an average thriller and this is what you get. What was expected to be the finishing touch to a trilogy that aimed high ended up being a mess of clearly forced subplots. The lack of creativity is reflected on the continuous and rainy, dark settings being wearisome and irritating:(
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