Parents' Guide to

Centauro

By Brian Costello, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 15+

Action thriller has violence, sex, language.

Movie NR 2022 89 minutes
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What's the Story?

In CENTAURO, Rafa (Alex Monner) races on the independent motorcycle racing circuit while making a living as a forklift operator. After one race, Rafa meets Regina, the head of a professional motorcycle team who wants to bring him on board. He'll first have to try out for the team, but as he prepares for this, he discovers that his ex-lover and the mother of his child Natalia (Begoña Vargas) has been beaten up. She was trying to make ends meet by stashing a drug shipment for a drug cartel, but now must find a way to either find the drugs that were stolen from her house or pay the cartel the money. Desperate to save her and his son, Rafa tracks down the local cartel heads and offers to work as a drug runner for two months in order to pay off the debt. Rafa is put on 24/7 notice to make the run from Marseilles to their hometown of Barcelona, and must find a way to balance this with his motorcycle try-outs and his day job. As this punishing schedule begins to take its toll on Rafa, he must find a way to get the cartel off his back, save Natalia, and pursue his dreams of racing glory.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
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This is a decent, if at times gratuitous, action movie. Centauro is centered on an aspiring professional motorcycle racer who puts his dreams in jeopardy to save his ex-lover/mother of his son from a drug cartel. While it's safe to say that, like somewhat similar movies that have the words "fast" and "furious" in their titles, the motorcycles and high-end sports cars doing the racing and chasing are the only aspect of the movie not fueled by testosterone, the dialogue is much better than those movies, and the female leads usually do a good job of counterbalancing all the obligatory alpha male posturing.

In other words: There are actually shades and nuances of character depth and development. There's as much of a focus on the story as there is on effectively capturing all the top-speed chases. That alone makes it more enjoyable than all the movies featuring muscle-dudes who drive fast and grunt loud in the hopes that this style will outweigh the lack of substance. It's not a masterpiece, but Centauro knows what it is and makes the most of it.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Families can talk about the vehicle chase scenes in Centauro. Do chase scenes like these have a negative influence on teen or impressionable drivers? Are they liable to inspire some to drive down the highway (in a motorcycle or other vehicle) as fast as possible, no matter how many lives may be put in danger?

  • Does the movie glamorize Rafa's amphetamine use, or does it show that it's creating even more problems than needing to stay awake all the time?

  • Did the sex and violence seem excessive, or was it necessary for the story? Why?

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