![]() Having not forgotten that he was fixed up to take the fall for the first heist they all carried out together, Ángel quickly betrays Poli, steals his girl, turns most of his goons against him, and strikes out on his own to make it “sky high”, as far as the social ladder is concerned.Įventually, Ángel makes a deal with Rogelio to be basically his private thief, and as if to seal the deal he marries Rogelio’s daughter, Sole, despite still carrying on a relationship with Estrella. The transition from fighting to working together on dangerous, risky heists occurs in two scenes or so, which is obviously ridiculous, but frankly so is everything else in the movie, including the character of Mercedes, a lawyer who represents Poli and his gang whenever they get into trouble and manages to spring Ángel from prison almost immediately. Ángel initially meets Poli because of his obvious obsession with Estrella, Poli’s girlfriend. Above them all is Rogelio, a well-connected crime boss with ties to a police official, which will become important later. But from there we wind back four years to chart Ángel’s rise from the slums of Madrid to its high-society on the back of robberies, first with a gang of goons under the leadership of small-time criminal Poli and then with the same gang of goons under his own leadership. Sky High actually ends where it begins, with sad-looking protagonist Ángel ( Miguel Herrán) driving a swanky car into a jewellery store. It’s also unintentionally comical how little of it makes sense in character terms, but nevertheless a movie so dense with developments is worthy of some degree of unpacking, even if it’s simply a way to make better sense of things in one’s head. In its two-hour runtime, it’s almost comical how much… stuff Sky High manages to chew through. ![]() This article contains major spoilers for the Sky High ending. ![]()
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