Sometimes I find a little difficult to get into a foreign-language film. I'll watch just about any movie you throw my way, foreign or not, but because I end up reading all the dialogue (even through sometimes bad translations), I have to have something else to really engage me in a film.
Intacto does just this. You quickly get introduced to some of the "players" - The Jew and Frederico. The Jew takes away Frederico's "gift." What is this gift? You have to watch more of the movie to find out that it is the gift of being able to steal luck from other people that the Jew refers to. Within the confines of Intacto, luck is a tradeable commodity which people with this gift of "luck theft" gamble with each other over.
Enter the main character: Tomas. Tomas is a wanted man, a bank robber, and the sole survivor of a plane crash. His chances of survival are estimated at 1 in 273 million. Frederico catches wind of this and enters Tomas into several tournaments of luck ranging from the bizzarre (covering people's heads with molasses and sending a molasses-loving praying mantis into the room) to the truly sadistic (an inverted game of Russian Roulette). At the same time, they attempt to escape the cops at every twist and turn, since a federal agent is trying to pin Tomas with his bank robbery.
It's exciting at every minute, often suspensful to a degree that most movies don't reach, but it does have a couple of downfalls. First, and probably least, it's a little predictable. Especially in the last fifteen to twenty minutes. Also, it gets a little overcomplicated at points, making you study the "rules" of the movie and either question them in order to get it, or simply ignore them and accept the events for what they are.
Definitely worth watching, though. The movie is partially in English (most of the Max von Sidow scenes), so don't feel too discouraged by the foreign-ness of it.