REVIEW: ‘The Marked Woman’ — twisty Spanish thriller that leans too hard on genre cliches

DUBAI: There’s definite potential in this Spanish crime thriller. But there’s also a lot that will remind you of numerous other films and shows of this genre. Ultimately, there’s too much of the latter for that potential to shine through. The basics: A woman (played by Ana Rujas) is discovered in a shipping container in Barcelona port. She has been tortured. She doesn’t remember who she is or how she got there (cross that off your crime-trope bingo card). The two detectives — Anna Ripoll (Candela Pena) and Quique Zarate (Pol Lopez) — tasked with keeping her alive have to work out the answers.

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