Tercer Grado, (Geoffrey Cowper, 2015): Spain

Reviewed by Reynaldo Ayon at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Anticoch Unversity

For those who love action movies and bank heist films Tercer Grado, a film directed by David Geoffy and shot in Spain and the border  of France This film is inspired by many famous films about bank heist such as The Town by Ben Affleck. The story of a man who after five years on parlor get a weekend free as of where he witnesses a bank heist undergo while hes out in the mall. This short feature film is very interesting and has some storyline to go along with it.

The plot of the story has to do when the main actor Mark Rodriguez(Jesus llovera) after being in jail for five years finally gets the opportunity to go see his family and live in the outside world for about one weekend and during that time he goes and visits his brother Toni Rodriguez(who has been in trouble with keeping his house finding money for his mothers funeral expenses. During his visit his brother gets mad and blames everything that happened on him. He then later travels to a bar where he mets up with a stripper Mia(Sara Casanova)he had spent the night with before. leaving the bar witnesses a heist of a security van go down by two European masked men. Knowing the situation his brother is in he decides to follow the masked robbers and goes through a journey throughout Spain and the border of France to steal the money and give it to his brother Toni.

This movie makes many connections to the film The Town and Wanted since it follows the concept that Mark wants the money for his family and The Town since he goes and steals the money the robbers took from the van. Some of these actors haven’t been in many films and it would be their first time in a feature film which they did a outstanding performance.

In conclusion, this film is one of the best low budget feature films in the action genre since many of the scenes were made to be realistic and human. This film is worth the watch and is one of the many hidden gems out there.