Below Zero () is a 2021 Spanish action thriller film directed by , written by Fernando Navarro and LluÃÂs QuÃÂlez. It stars Javier Gutiérrez, Karra Elejalde, Luis Callejo and Patrick Criado. The plot concerns a team of police officers who are transporting prisoners in an armored transport truck who are ambushed by a hijacker, who demands the release of one of the prisoners.
Netflix reported that the movie had been viewed by 47 million accounts in its first month on the service.
An injured man is pursued through a wood at night and caught by his pursuer. Unable to disclose the location of a missing woman, the attacker buries him alive.
Police officer MartÃÂn starts a new job driving a prisoner transport vehicle at night, partnered with Officer Montesino. Montesino deliberately humiliates some of the prisoners during the transfer, but MartÃÂn intervenes to prevent violence.
While en route, the transport vehicle loses sight of, and radio contact with, the escorting police car due to fog. The transport vehicle is then abruptly halted by a spiked strip on the road. Montesino gets out to investigate, but does not return. When MartÃÂn follows, he finds Montesino apparently dead, and the police car overturned, with the officers killed.
A sniper starts firing at MartÃÂn, who returns fire, but he is shot in the leg. He makes it back to the transport vehicle and seeks refuge in the prisoners' section. One prisoner frees himself and tries to overpower MartÃÂn, but he defends himself with his weapon. Gasoline is poured into two cells through the ventilation grilles and set ablaze, forcing MartÃÂn to open the cells to save the prisoners, but one man has already died.
The freed prisoner releases the others, and a message is heard through the intercom that MartÃÂn's gun is actually empty, and urges the prisoners to escape. However, prisoner Nano beats another man to death, claiming that he was the one who orchestrated the hijack. Nano obtains MartÃÂn's key.
The hijacker, Miguel, has commandeered the transport vehicle and threatens to kill everyone unless they hand over Nano. A struggle ensues to obtain the key, but Nano swallows it. MartÃÂn is overpowered and locked up with Nano while the others try to open the exit door. MartÃÂn recognises one prisoner, Ramis, as a former band member from his wedding.
Miguel starts driving the truck, while the prisoners try to find a means to escape. To this end, Rei enters a storage compartment under the truck and tries to open a panel. Meanwhile, Montesino has revived and pursues the truck, after finding Miguel's jeep with photos of his missing daughter. Montesino catches up with the truck and fires at it, but is forced off the road and killed in the collision. Rei also dies in the storage compartment, impaled by a screw during the swerving of the vehicle.
MartÃÂn interrogates Nano about the situation; he claims ignorance but mentions someone named Chino, his childhood friend. Miguel drives the truck onto a frozen lake and shoots the ice, causing the vehicle to sink, while he walks away. MartÃÂn convinces Ramis to release him to find an emergency exit. MartÃÂn, Nano, and Ramis escape, but Golum dies from the cold.
Nano runs away while MartÃÂn and Ramis part ways. MartÃÂn reaches a nearby village where he hears gunfire. Miguel is firing at Nano from inside a building, and MartÃÂn confronts him. Miguel reveals his motive for seeking revenge; he had allowed his young daughter to visit a fair with a friend. Nano and Chino (the man being pursued in the opening scene) got her drunk and, after raping her, tortured her until she died.
MartÃÂn refuses to let Miguel kill Nano, and they struggle for the shotgun. MartÃÂn gains control, but Miguel pursues Nano. MartÃÂn intervenes, shooting Nano in the foot and hand, demanding the location of Miguel's daughter. Nano confesses that he and Chino buried her in a well on a farm. As he reveals this, a police rescue helicopter arrives.
In the final scene, MartÃÂn collects his belongings from his locker at headquarters and walks away from the building, and presumably also his police career.