While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

This is one of the funniest movies I have seen in a long time. Writer/Director Álex de la Iglesia took a simple premise and made a film that never lags in the laugh department. Although he has done well with fantasy in the past, comedy is definitely his forte.Guillermo Toledo (The Galindez File) and Mónica Cervera were hilarious as a lothario who accidentally kills his rival for manager, and the wallflower who knows his secret and helps him cover it up, only to get rid of all the competition and blackmail him into marriage.Iglesia's fantasy past comes into play with the victim haunting Toledo, sometimes headless, but always with a big knife in his skull.

I caught this movie purely by chance on cable. Without casting too many aspersions on other user comments, there is a slightly different dynamic that makes this movie so enjoyable. While others have purported that Rafa is seeking a perfect life, the much more accurate description of his character is one that is seeking overindulgence in the material (and carnal) luxuries that can be found within the store he works in, Yeyo's. Without Yeyo's, Rafa is nothing, and Rafa knows this. Rafa appreciates, understands, and desires all excesses that can be obtained as a floor salesman, and ultimately, the store manager. So, when his archnemisis, Don Antonio, is promoted ahead of him, on the fickle whims of the store's accountants, Rafa is ruined, as Don Antonio makes priority one to fire Rafa. As fortune frowns on Rafa, he is forced to become compatriot and lover to the store's most miserable employee, Lourdes. Lourdes personifies all that Rafa abhors. But, Lourdes nonetheless makes Rafa hopelessly entangled to her. The true comedy of this movie is how Rafa must continually splinter and sacrifice his love of the grandiose to constantly appease his tormentor, Lourdes. I thought that Monica Cervera was particularly exceptional in her portrayal of Lourdes. Cervera excellently balances the neurosis of Lourdes with her strangulating hold over Rafa. Her embodiment of this precarious character is very believable. Not an easy task. Of course, Rafa's two most humiliating scenes are meeting Lourdes' family, and the wedding scene in Yeyo's. They are both priceless. I found the ending much more entertaining the most. Rafa is able to escape his personal hell, and rebuild a portion of the missing luxury in his life, only to have Lourdes give him one last punishing blow. The mud shower on the street was unnecessary and cliché though. If you catch this movie, give it enough latitude to draw you in.

I stumbled across this by accident and I am surprised that it didn't get wide release. Its a susbstanially funny movie and satire attacking one aspect of the "average Joe" Raphael (played by Guillermo Toledo) feels he is living the perfect life: working in an upscale department store as a handsome, well-dressed man, who haves sex with all the hot female employees (using the bed sets and the dressing rooms) while most of the other employees respect him. His only problem is a rival salesperson, who gets promoted over him. In a fit of rage, he accidentally kills him and the crime is witnessed by an mousy, unattractive sales clerk Lourdes (Monica Cervera). She vows to keep quiet, if he promises to go out with her. He agrees, but when she realizes she's got him wrapped around her finger, her demands of him increases as she forces him to do the 3 things he hates the most: marriage, settling down, and having children. As he's slowly driven insane by these developments, Raphael decides to get himself out of this rut once and for all.The film does a great job of skewering salesmen, particularly ones based on commission and the workplace rivalries, politics, backstabbing and etc. Anyone working in or who has been in such positions would sympathize. Home life, marriage and children gets attacked too as one of the funniest moments of the movie comes where he pays Lourdes's family a visit. The best acting in my book comes from Lourdes who's transformation from the shy, meek, clerk, to dominating, conniving woman is great if not hilarious. One wonders if she had this planned all along.But the problem I had with this one was the running length. Its a bit too long for a movie of this type, and as such, the comedy runs dry as it becomes more of a detective/character study flick, which it isn't really good at. While things end somewhat conveniently (albiet contrived), one wonders if they could've ended it much earlier with a neater ending.All and all, a nice and somewhat clever and funny little diversion thats worth the rental/viewing.

El Crimen Ferpecto is absurdly funny from beginning to end. Rafael Gonzalez (played by a man who looks like the Spanish Dennis Miller) is a fearless lady's man from the moment he pops on screen and reveals his philosophy on life – he goes for what he wants, and he only wants the best. That's why he doesn't mind working at an upscale department store. He's constantly surrounded by perfect things and beautiful co-workers. His perfect world comes crashing down, however, when Rafael and his boss get into a brutal fight that leaves a clothes hanger in Rafael's throat and a coat hook in the back of his boss's neck. His ugly, sex-starved, co-worker Lourdes helps him dispose of the body and cover-up the murder, and then blackmails him for all the sex, love, and affection he can give. Just when you think Rafael's life can't get any worse, it does, and every new punishment Lourdes inflicts on him is better than the one before. Pure entertainment.