Our Fault Review
Director: Domingo González
Date Created: 2025-10-16 17:20
1.5
Our Fault Review: Directed by Domingo González, Prime Video’s Culpa Nuestra reprises Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara in the roles of Noah and Nick for the concluding match of love, jealousy, and upheaval. The film also stars Marta Hazas, Iván Sánchez, Eva Ruiz, Víctor Varona, Gabriela Andrada, and Álex Béjar. It’s the third and concluding part in the Culpables trilogy after My Fault (2023) and Your Fault (2024), based on the novels by Mercedes Ron.
Our Fault Review
Our Fault feels was supposed to be a grand romantic conclusion the show deserved — the chance to get some kind of resolution with Noah and Nick after all the years of suffering. In minutes, however, we can see the movie reverts to style over substance. To me, it’s watching some overlong music video in which everybody’s flawless, but nothing ever quite springs to life.
The movie takes place years after the breakup of Noah and Nick. Chances reunites them in the same place at a wedding, and then we’re deluged with half-thought-out plot twists, inconsequential brawls that go nowhere, and a whole lot of feelings. You’d hope that with two movies behind them, the third movie can get some sort of emotional resolution or character growth in their lives, and Prime Video’s Our Fault does not provide.
Instead, the movie depends on gratuitous complications simply so it can pad the runtime. You’re always assured some brawl, some misunderstanding, some shocking plot turnabout that’s generated from left field. It’s almost like the writers are so zealous in their effort to create everything “dramatic” that they forgot that drama also depends on logic. In a romance movie, the result becomes curiously cold.
I stopped keeping track of the number of new issues that appeared and were resolved in the number of minutes. Characters appear and disappear from the narrative without purpose. Side subplots that in no way create the main plot are added, and come the conclusion, you’re left with the feeling that you’ve been on a ride that rotates in every possible direction but does nothing.
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One big part of the popularity of the Culpables trilogy was the forbidden love between Nick and Noah, current and former stepbrothers and lovers. In Culpa Nuestra, however, magic no longer exists. The chemistry that must drive the entire movie isn’t there anymore.
Every time they argue and make up, they are more scene-setting than actually experiencing real emotions. Even the hot and passionate scenes meant to show passion are stilted and contrived. I felt no chemistry at all between the two, only two actors acting because the script told them to.
But in the second half, however, I didn’t even want them together anymore or apart anymore, because the whole dynamics in their relationship were not real. The emotional investment required in order to get this final movie epic does not exist.
One thing I can truthfully say, though, Prime Video Our Fault is quite picturesque. It was filmed in picturesque corners of Spain and London and boasts sunlit beaches, high style, and fantasy interiors straight from a catalogue. Everything photographs well, and that’s the issue. The movie does more than anything to seem interested in constructing an Instagram-perfect aesthetic than in some kind of narrative that touches the soul.
The score, with all the pop and the EDM beats, blares incessantly, drowning the silence and drowning the soul that the movie so desperately craves. The movie feels like a distraction, and the score can’t seemingly get all of us in a frenzy with feelings the scenes can’t evoke.
Quite regularly, the movie felt like it was exerting too much effort at being expensive and “cool,” while maintaining in the equation the realisation that audiences in the modern day are more concerned with the story than with impeccable lighting.
Director Domingo González doesn’t seem quite sure himself whether he wants Our Fault to be a romance, a drama, or some kind of high-gloss fantasy. The tone bounces all over the place. It’s a tear-jerker one moment and a haphazard action or gratuitous violence the next. Even the dialogue is cringingly obvious. Any emotionally correct phrase instantly reminds you that you’ve heard it a million times in other teen dramas.
Another annoying part is that the film does not provide any break for breath for the scenes. Important things occur randomly and are also wrapped up right away with no consequence. Instead of portraying the emotions of people, the film simply tells us about things, which become hasty and boring.
Prime Video Our Fault Review: Summing Up
Honestly, the movie Our Fault confused me more than it made me feel something. It’s not a terrible movie ever produced, it’s just that it feels like an empty movie. It’s like a beautifully designed gift box that ends up being hollow inside. You’ve watched the first two movies, probably due to habit and curiosity. But as a standalone film, it doesn’t hold up.
I wanted to cheer for the finale in Nick and Noah, but while I was looking at the movie as a viewer, I felt there was no tension, no actual romance and no resolution for all the angst we’ve endured in three films.
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