Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Strong and Moving!

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

One of the best takes I have heard on this film goes like this: "It's like if Rob Zombie got religion and decided to take on Goethe and Marlow and delve the deeper meaning of God the Devil and the Soul while listening to lots of industrial goth techno dance music." This sums up the film nicely for those familiar with Zombie. It is a thinking man's (or woman's) horror. It give the selling your soul story and interesting twist.Miguel Ángel Solá (The Whore and the Whale) is brilliant as the title character, an oncologist that doesn't seem to care about the patients he serves. Eduard Fernández (Che: Part 2, and the impossible to find, Alatriste) is fascinating as the devil.It gets gory, and it it seems a mess at times, but I couldn't take my eyes away. It was a great story.

The umpteenth version of a well-known story (check the title which is the hero's name).it begins well enough,but after an half-hour,it's run of the mill pact with the devil.The actor playing Rilla the "survivor" obviously tries to ape De Niro's style in "Angel Heart".But whereas Parker's work had a solid screenplay,this Spanish story falls apart in the second third and fails totally to convince in one of the most disappointing conclusions a horror movie has ever offered.The movie fills its quota of sex ,"surgery" and gore .Every Spanish director is not Amenabar,by a long shot.I must confess I have not understood the meaning of 5.0.....if it has one of course.

I'm not generally a follower of this sort of "Art House"-ish cinema, but I found this film highly enjoyable. The combination of surreal imagery and gritty realism is pleasantly understated (unlike, for example, Trainspotting), and this serves to add to the subtle nature of the film.Miguel Ángel Solá really brings Fausto to life... He can run a whole range of emotions without it feeling forced or hackneyed, and keeping everything suitably understated (which helps accentuate the rare occurrences where things go slightly strange all the more)Forget Matrix Reloaded, trying to confuse you with philosophical babble; this is a film that will have you and your friends discussing what it was *actually* about all the way back from the cinema (and then some). Definitely worth at least two viewings: once to see it, once to *really* watch it.

Different from everything you have seen, this movie's greatest achievement is transporting us into the real world, but being able to make it not so real. For this effect, the cinematography contributes a lot, and also the art direction. This movie is odd, it will gather enemies, but I think it had great moments and great visions. The oddity is an asset here. It has won the great prize on my country's Fantasporto.