Ezekiel Montes Plumbs the Consequences of Violence in Brutal Spanish Shoot ’Em Up ‘A Dead Man Cannot Live’

“A Dead Man Cannot Live” begins with Tano, played by the lanky, weathered, deep-voiced Antonio Dechent, one of the finest actors of his around-60 Spanish generation, sitting at a bar rail, and thinking back on better times. Even the Costa de Sol narco business is going to ruin. Tano’s boss, Manuel, is senile, his son and heir, the inappropriately named Angel, totally out of control. When younger mobsters steal Tano’s latest drug shipment from Morocco, Tano is given a week to retrieve it by the Russians mafia or die. In the 2000s, Spain’s dominated Europe’s horror genre. Shoot-em-ups, like “A… Read Full Article