Torrente 4: Lethal crisis (2011)

Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis is a gleefully shameless, full-throttle dive into Spanish vulgar-comedy noir, powered by Santiago Segura’s fearless commitment to a protagonist so grotesque he becomes, perversely, the movie’s engine of satire. The film barrels along with action-comedy momentum—weddings, prisons, crooked power plays—keeping the vibe loud, nasty, and cartoonishly chaotic even when it’s poking at corruption and macho absurdity. You don’t need to know the earlier entries to get the joke, because Segura builds Torrente as a one-man disaster zone: instantly legible, consistently outrageous, and weirdly magnetic. Fair warning: the humor is aggressively crude and politically incorrect, so if you’re not in the mood for maximal filth, this won’t convert you—but if you are, it delivers exactly the kind of brazen, box-office-proof comedy that refuses to apologize.

Torrente 4: Lethal Crisis is trying to be a loud, anarchic send-up of action-crime movies, with Santiago Segura leaning hard into the “disgusting antihero” shtick and stacking the film with chaos, cameos, and broad slapstick. The problem is that it mistakes sheer vulgarity for punchlines, so if you don’t find crude sex gags, relentless profanity, and mean-spirited behavior inherently funny, you’ll spend a lot of time waiting for an actual joke to land. The pacing lurches from sketch to sketch, and the satire is more “look how awful this guy is” than anything sharper or smarter. If you already love the Torrente persona and want a no-filter, anything-goes Spanish comedy, you’ll get exactly that; everyone else should probably skip it unless your tolerance for gross-out humor is sky-high.