Multiple criminals are after the same valuable gun in Luger, the crime thriller is playing at Fantastic Fest 2025.
There is a moment at the beginning of Bruno Martin’s brutal and electrifying Luger that sets the tone. The film shows that no one, no matter how smart or how strong, will be spared. It’s a dog-eat-dog criminal underworld in the debut feature from the co-writer/director. The film rivals the sobering Alajendro Irratu’s Amores Perros, mixed in with the high-stakes storytelling of Guy Ritchie’s Snatch to create a film that is both a throwback to crime thrillers of yesteryear and something entirely new.
Martin’s dizzy narrative has a pair of low-end enforcers for hire (David Sainz and Mario Mayo) mixed up in a car theft gone awry, a bag of money, and a legendary Luger pistol from WW2. Add in a Molotov cocktail of crooked businessmen, sketchy lawyers, and Nazis to an already combustible situation, making it explosive. You have the groundwork for the brutal take-no-prisoners 95-minute thrill ride.
Part of the unexpected delights of Luger is how first-time director Bruno Martin stages everything with a grounded reality. A reality that makes every bone-crunching hit, bullet-riddled body, and stab wound count. The script is sharp enough to never play anything safe, providing enough shocking twists and turns that keep everything and everyone’s fate up in the air until the final frame. Luger is the announcement of a writer/director we haven’t heard the last from. Not by a long shot.
Luger plays Fantastic Fest 2025 on September 20th and September 22nd
Multiple criminals are after the same valuable gun in Luger, the crime thriller is playing at Fantastic Fest 2025.
There is a moment at the beginning of Bruno Martin’s brutal and electrifying Luger that sets the tone. The film shows that no one, no matter how smart or how strong, will be spared. It’s a dog-eat-dog criminal underworld in the debut feature from the co-writer/director. The film rivals the sobering Alajendro Irratu’s Amores Perros, mixed in with the high-stakes storytelling of Guy Ritchie’s Snatch to create a film that is both a throwback to crime thrillers of yesteryear and something entirely new.
Martin’s dizzy narrative has a pair of low-end enforcers for hire (David Sainz and Mario Mayo) mixed up in a car theft gone awry, a bag of money, and a legendary Luger pistol from WW2. Add in a Molotov cocktail of crooked businessmen, sketchy lawyers, and Nazis to an already combustible situation, making it explosive. You have the groundwork for the brutal take-no-prisoners 95-minute thrill ride.
Part of the unexpected delights of Luger is how first-time director Bruno Martin stages everything with a grounded reality. A reality that makes every bone-crunching hit, bullet-riddled body, and stab wound count. The script is sharp enough to never play anything safe, providing enough shocking twists and turns that keep everything and everyone’s fate up in the air until the final frame. Luger is the announcement of a writer/director we haven’t heard the last from. Not by a long shot.
Luger plays Fantastic Fest 2025 on September 20th and September 22nd
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