Kamikaze (2014 film)

Kamikaze is a 2014 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Álex Pina from a screenplay by Pina and Iván Escobar which stars Álex García, Eduardo Blanco, Verónica Echegui, Carmen Machi, Leticia Dolera, Iván Massagué and Héctor Alterio.

Plot
The plot follows a suicidal bomber from a fictional country from the Caucasus who sees his plans thwarted by chance and is forced to stay in a winter resort with a group of Spaniards.

Production
The film is an Atresmedia Cine, Cangrejo Films, and Globomedia production. Shooting locations included the Aragonese Pyrenees, Madrid, and Toledo.

Release
The film screened on 24 March 2014 at the 17th Málaga Film Festival. Distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures España, the film was released theatrically in Spain on 28 March 2014.

Reception
Jonathan Holland of The Hollywood Reporter deemed the feel-good movie about a suicide bomber to be a "a bizarre hybrid of genres that wants to do many things but doesn't do any of them very well".

Andrea G. Bermejo of Cinemanía rated the film 2 out of 5 stars, writing that the film avoids thriller and drama, genres both "suitable" for the story the film wants to tell, opting "for an improbable tone of costumbrista comedy" instead.