Jorge Coira competently handles a complex screenplay entangling moderately exciting action, moderately tender romance, moderately intriguing political drama and moderately tense close scrapes. It's not exceptional, but it rests on a sturdy foundation.

Spanish spy drama has sex, violence, and drugs.

A high-speed, intense, and slickly packaged ride through the dark and nasty tunnels of state power, Jorge Coira's second feature Code Emperor is an all-too rare Spanish attempt to marry genre to real-life politics.

A boring and uneventful watch with characters that aren’t engaging or developed in a way that makes them even slightly relatable.