A Disappointing Continuation

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Seeing the movie and seeing the review here in IMDb I am surprised at the low rating this movie has. It is not a perfect movie but it is fairly well played with a number of interesting characters and above all in my eyes a good deal of proper suspense on a level you don't see often anymore. The whole setting of the movie is pretty unusual which makes it all the more interesting. Art world, Murder, Theft, it's all in there in a relative well paced movie. It also has a great level of realism, you can actually imagine this to be real, it could have happened this way. Ignore the bad reviews, watch the movie with an open mind, in my opinion you can't really be disappointed.

This is a mildly entertaining film as long as you are not expecting very much. Uncovered is pretty much on par with the old Sunday Night Mysteries like McMillan & Wife and McCloud. There is some nudity in the film but it is really nothing to get too excited about one way or the other. The characters are pleasant enough to watch but none are truly compelling. The story is mildly interesting but there is nothing captivating or compelling about the storyline. The analogy to the chess game is mildly amusing but it seems somewhat of a reach for a feature length film. The main reason to see Uncovered is the opportunity to see Kate Beckinsale at an early stage of her career.

simply terrible ... even kate beckinsdale who is apparently a competent actress in other roles, is just ridiculously bad in this pathetic adaptation of one of the finest novelists of the last 50 years ... it is just beyond me how they could watch the dailies during the filming and think they had anything other than the poorest type of community theatre production ... either ridiculous reactions to other character's actions or words or stomach curdling overwrought howling fits by beckinsdale make this one of the 10 worst movies i've seen in the last 20 years ...and to ruin one of the fine novels of Arturo Pérez-Reverte is truly a crime ... this kind of movie unfortunately reflects on the novelist and makes movie adaptations of his other works unlikely ... as if it's his fault ... read his novels ...and furthermore the soundtrack almost made me turn the movie off in the first ten minutes ... my god ... it's as if they searched royalty free soundtracks and then chose a mixture of the worst ones ... annoying at times to where you're thinking of murder but not from the plot ... so pathetically 'obvious' as when they suddenly insert an old sax-dominated noir type section when beckinsdale is searching her apartment ... just awful and kate is playing a brit ... why are her pits hairy? and of course why bother having actors at least use a Spanish accent for the parts that are supposed to be spaniards ... just use a British accent ... that sounds 'european' enough ...jim mcbride should be horsewhipped for doing this ... actually he should get double punishment for directing it as well as completely mucking up the novel with his input on the screenplay ... the other two dolts credited with the screenplay are obviously adleminded since they wanted their name on this piece of trash and again why can't we give ZERO STARS???!!!

Watching this film will leave you with two impressions.1. There are no Spanish people in Spain.2. Kate Beckinsale had quite a perky bosom in the mid 90s.Set in Barcelona, this story concerns a young art restorer named Julia (Kate Beckinsale) who is working on a 500 year old painting for her art dealer friend Menchu (Sinead Cusack). Julia discovers a secret message hidden within the painting about a murder half a millennia ago. Julia's efforts to unravel this ancient mystery involve her old art professor and lover Alvaro (Art Malik), her longtime guardian and prissy British homosexual Cesar (John Wood) and a streetwise chess hustler named Domenec (Paudge Behan). Julia also has to deal with Don Manual (Michael Gough), the terminally ill owner of the painting, his niece Lola (Helen McCrory) and her sexual predator of a husband Max (Peter Wingfield). But as she solves the riddle secreted within the painting, people suddenly start dying around Julia in a fashion that seems to be a continuation of the murder 500 years ago. I'd say that Julia then has to race against time to find the killer, but nothing in this movie ever moves faster than a leisurely walk.If you want to know what Uncovered is like, imagine an extra long episode of the public television program Mystery! where Kate Beckinsale gets naked. That's an almost perfect description of this film and I'm sure it would be a big hit during pledge week. If those sort of British mysteries are your thing, you'll probably like this movie a great deal. If not, well…you still might like seeing Beckinsale's boobs, but there's not much else here for you.The only other interesting thing, besides Beckinsale's sweet rack, is that even though the story is set in Spain, there are no Spanish people in it. Now, you could accept that everything in the movie happens within the British expatriate community in Barcelona. However, that doesn't excuse trying to pass off Michael Gough as the supposed last survivor of a Spanish family that traces its lineage back for centuries. Gough beats out Charlton Heston in Touch of Evil for the title of "Least Spanish Spaniard in Cinematic History". I look more Spanish than Michael Gough.I should also caution you that even though Uncovered is about two separate mysteries, there's nothing all that mysterious about either of them. There aren't a bunch of clues in the story that you can notice and figure out who committed either the ancient killing or the modern slayings. The answers are just sort of presented to the audience.Uncovered is definitely a case of "You'll like it, if you like that sort of thing". That sort of thing being, in this case, British mysteries and/or Kate Beckinsale's breasts.