Welcome back to The Movie Recap. Today I'm gonna show you a 2016 Argentine crime thriller film
called, At the End of the Tunnel. Spoilers ahead. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the video.
The movie starts with a blast of thunder and rainstorms in the evening.
There is a big house that has a dreary dog and in the basement, a man with a wheelchair is working
with electronics stuff. Oftentimes, he’s in the backyard or living room taking a smoke.
He is calling someone about his dog’s test results and searches online on how to let it sleep.
Then, he injects something into the dog’s treats.
A doorbell rings and it is a woman with her daughter asking about his room upstairs
that’s for rent. They go up there while the man goes to smoke; suddenly, the woman says
they’ll move in so the man has no choice. The woman is unpacking while speaking to the man.
She shares that she’s a stripper but the man says it’s not his problem so he goes outside to smoke.
Suddenly, the woman comes outside, looking for her daughter; as she goes through the backyard,
she sees a damaged and abandoned car and slide. She strangely reacts to them while
looking for her daughter. Betty is only hiding in the pantry and stole some things so the mom
put it all back in place. She sees a box full of pictures, a photo of the man and his old family.
While working downstairs, the woman calls her to go to the terrace and helps him.
She says she finds out that it’s his birthday that day with the contract so she offers him dinner.
Apparently, her daughter isn’t talking for two years now. She gives the man a nice dance as
well which the man couldn’t stop thinking about. While looking at her, she sees Betty moving closer
to the dog. The woman carries her screaming but the dog suddenly stands then Betty cuddles it.
He goes down to his basement and cries when he hears something from the wall.
He uses his stethoscope to listen and he hears that the men there are talking about him,
his noise, elevator and that they should’ve plastered his wall. The woman calls her
about his dog so he hurriedly connects the stethoscope to his computer and records it.
Berta, the woman, gives him wine and prepares food for the dog’s betterment. The next day, he
replays the recoding and lists some of the names heard as well as the dates. Due to more curiosity,
he screws a small hole into his wall and installs a camera to see the other side. Suddenly,
Berta gets mad at him due to trust issues of them leaving with him and accuses the man, Joaquin,
that he likes her because of the dance. She says Joaquin is smart and shouldn’t think lowly of
himself just because he is in a wheelchair. Continuously, he investigated more about the
basement on the other side and he noted that they only work at night, carry dirt upstairs in bags,
and what could the beams were for. The next day, the two greet each other
and Berta gives him coffee. Joaquin says they could stay in the house which makes her happy.
He also asks her to come down to the basement because he’ll show her something. Joaquin goes
back to investigating and watches the happenings. He discovers that Berta went there last night
when he asked her to move out and told her lover about it. Her partner asks her if Joaquin can hear
the noise from their basement and she says no. He then tells her to keep Joaquin occupied. He
gets shocked by what he just watched and when he’s sleeping, Betty watches him strangely.
The next day, Berta will run some errands so she left Betty with Joaquin.
He tries to talk to her but she really doesn’t talk so he goes to the kitchen.
Joaquin turns around to see his dog then he sees Betty whispering something to Casimiro, the dog.
While watching the tapes, he is putting a microphone on Casimiro’s leash. The gang on
the other side of the basement is stealing from a bank and one of their men has sent his girlfriend
the address of the back as well as telling her that she works near it. They got really angry no
matter the man's excuse, the leader stabs him in his stomach and Joaquin gets scared watching. The
man covers his face with a blanket then the leader stabbed him with an ax. Joaquin left speechless.
That night, Berta and Joaquin are drinking wine and talking about his incident, their love lives,
and whatnot when suddenly, Berta gets so dizzy that, Joaquin offers his room in case she couldn’t
make it upstairs. Berta wonders why is she getting dizzy and Joaquin offers to inject her for her
dizziness. She asks why is he doing this to her and he replies because he knows what she’s doing.
Berta says that they will kill him and then dozes off to sleep.
Meanwhile, in the other basement, the robbers-team note that there are storages
in the bank full of money that they cannot touch because it is connected to the alarm.
The next day, Joaquin asks Berta about what she finds the leader attractive,
which she’s dating. She says that he’s good to her and Betty and that he wouldn’t hurt anyone.
Joaquin opens his laptop and shows her the video where the leader kills his man. Berta
shed a tear as she cannot believe what happened. In the kitchen, Betty seems scared of Joaquin.
He tells her to bring his things down and she can take the locked room full of toys,
seems like his beloved daughter’s room once. He then goes to the basement and measures
the need to make a tunnel. Joaquin prepares a lot of things which seems like he has a plan.
In his bedroom, he is massaging Berta while having a little chat. She warns him to be
careful what he texts because he might be killed. Joaquin assures her that he can beat him and tells
her the plan where he will get some parts from their robbed money down the tunnel.
Back in the other basement, the men notice that there’s a pipe near the tunnel.
Joaquin then searches for other water pipes in their place. The bank-robbers team will
correct water meters and prepare the roof for the charge; so, they adjust their robbery on Christmas
day. They will also change the carts so Joaquin will also adjust the measurements in his plan.
Digging a hole down in his basement, he discovers the tunnel itself. He covers his basement with the
soil from the tunnel. While exploring it, some men go to their basement and will check it. Joaquin
gets nervous and hurriedly claws himself farther because a man is already standing at the start of
the tunnel. Joaquin goes at the turn and covers himself with the soil so they won’t see him.
The two men crawling and checking the tunnel are the boss and his brother.
They are talking something about their hideout that Lefty, their man, knows as well; so,
they are having a little argument. Joaquin used their noises to crawl to his home.
Back at his place, he’s looking for Betty but he can’t find her anywhere. He sees his dog and his
basement gate opened; so, he hurries to go down even without his wheelchair elevator.
With his installed camera and moved tunnel cover, he sees Betty in the other basement exploring
the soils and such. Men suddenly go down so Betty goes on a hide. The bank-robbers team
together with their cop friend are talking about their plan while the kid is nervous in hiding.
When the men go up, Joaquin hurries to catch Betty crawling from the tunnel. He saves and kisses
her as he tells her it’s over. Joaquin discovers that Betty stole a watch from the other basement
but shrugs it off as long as she’s safe. He then goes to Berta, asking her to answer her phone
call but she acts with rage. Joaquin tells her that Betty talks to Casimiro and discovered it
because he installed a microphone in its collar. He plays the voice record and it seems like Betty
was traumatized because Berta’s boyfriend has been sexualizing her for two years, and
maybe the reason why she stopped talking at all. Full of rage, Berta gets mad and wants to kill her
partner. Joaquin assures her that he will ruin his life because he’ll ruin their robbery plan,
he’ll flood the tunnel. He asks Berta’s cooperation to pretend to her boyfriend
that everything is okay. She answers his phone call and did what she has to do.
It is now Christmas eve, a few hours before their plan will start. Joaquin is watching
the fireworks and Betty joins him. She seems to be comfortable with him due to his kindness. The next
day comes and he’s now preparing. The robbers are preparing as well despite the daylight.
The rain started pouring and Joaquin is now putting bandages around his arms for protection.
He crawls to the tunnel together with his bag and removes some sensors. Joaquin opens a hole and
crawls up to the bank; he sees the storage numbers that has full of money and gets some of it.
While leaving, the storage door comes open again. As he goes his way back to his basement, robbers
are going down again so he hurries back to the bank. He then goes down very fast until he reaches
his basement. The three robbers are now crawling just in time when Joaquin shuts down his cover.
The pipes are now flowing as goes from his plan. The robbers now reach the bank and
catch the money from their planned storage. While doing their job, they hear sounds of
water so, they check it and it’s now flooding. The water is completely being leaked so the
robber couldn’t seem to make it to the other side. Being so, the boss, together with his other men,
decides to get out and escape from their basement, leaving their men alone. Joaquin opens his cover
as he sees the man being flooded, he tries to help her but she only grabs him down so he’s left with
no choice but to leave her alone. He cries out of empathy while he covers his tunnel-opening.
As the water floods his basement, he covers or erases some evidence and goes up to his leaving
room, and gets his wheelchair. Meanwhile, the robbers in the bank are being flooded as well and
their only choice is to ring the alarm. Joaquin is waking up Berta but she hit him and asks him
where’s her daughter. He tells her about what happened and assures her that he will take care of
her and Betty. Joaquin and Berta share a kiss and he tells her that they can go somewhere far just
the three of them. She apologizes as she hit him again but he fights and injects a drug instead.
The two robbers are completely trapped in the vault while Joaquin is now showering to remove
the dirt from the tunnel. He goes outside as he sees some ambulances and firetrucks
but the officer tells him to get back home. The police come to their house as they will check
something because they already figured out that someone tries to rob the bank.
He is left together with the cop-friend of the robbers. He gets his number and reminds Joaquin
that if he sees anything strange, call him. The police now get out of his house and Joaquin tells
them that the power should be back soon. While watching the rain from the window,
another knock has come on his house, it’s the “police”, but it’s truly the robbery team.
They search his basement while Joaquin texts the robbers’ cop-friend to come to his house again.
The leader asks him to state what happened and so he did. He then asks him if he has someone in his
house and he says about the mother and a daughter but he tells him that they already have gone.
Betty then comes walking across the hallways which makes the leader more suspicious of him.
The leader searches the house as he saw the child. He wakes up Berta but she can’t;
he also checks her arms. He points a gun at him saying that they should talk. The leader gets
mad and asks him why he lied; he states that the mother told him to say that they’ve gone.
He then asks Joaquin why Berta has marks from being tied up and drugged and he replies that he
has no idea. For the third question, he asks him why she’s in his bed and so he replies that she’s
not feeling well, she drinks a pill, and he offers her his bed as she couldn’t make it upstairs.
The leader says that his answers make no sense but Joaquin defends that he’s telling the truth.
He pushes him out of his wheelchair and his men started to kick and punch him. They
threaten him that they’ll kill him either way. Suddenly, his phone starts ringing, the cop-friend
says he’s outside of his front door. The leader drags the cop inside and threatens him as well.
When all start to panic, Joaquin calls Lefty to come and help him. The team gets confused
as to why he knows his name. Joaquin starts to tell stories that all make Lefty the bad guy.
He says that Lefty always sneaks to the terrace to see Berta and he would tell him to drug her.
Joaquin also spits some of their secrets such as their hiding place and also the team’s names.
He tells the leader to open the drawer and there, he sees Lefty’s watch,
which was stolen by Betty. The leader’s brother shoots Lefty and vice versa. The leader cries
aloud as his brother bleeds so much to death. Finally, Berta wakes up, sees a gun, grabs it,
walks slowly, then quickly shoots her sexual-assaulter boyfriend as they swear
to each other. Berta, Betty, and Joaquin all hug each other while the cop-friend is still alive
and threatens him about what he can do. Joaquin defends that he can ruin his life by showing his
laptop and playing the video which reflects that the cop-friend is helping the robbers.
He then stays silent and eats the treats in the drawer, which Joaquin has injected a sleeping
pill. The cop-friend then points the gun at Betty; Joaquin panics so he gives him the money instead.
While escaping, the cop-friend feels dizzy as he’s eating the treats with pills. He gets into an
accident that reveals the dead bodies of robbers inside his trunk. His car explodes, creating
a big fire, burning everything he has got. Meanwhile, Joaquin’s house got cleaned and
all of them are packing their things. They are about to get out of the place. The movie
ends with them opening the door of his house, about to go, and Betty holding Joaquin’s hand.