Our Fault Movie Review (Culpa Nuestra): A Glossy and Predictable Farewell to the Mercedes Ron Trilogy?

Our Fault Movie (Culpa Nuestra) marks the conclusion of the trilogy based on the novels by Mercedes Ron, after My Fault (2023) and Your Fault (2024). The film, available on Prime Video, completes the story of Noah (Nicole Wallace) and Nick (Gabriel Guevara), two former lovers once linked by an acquired kinship relationship. Set between Ibiza, the Spanish coast, and London, the film tries to blend romance, drama, and sensuality, but ends up looking more like a catalog of luxury holidays than an authentic tale about the passions and fragilities of its protagonists. The third and final chapter, in a Bildungsroman, is usually the one that paves the way for “maturity”. We become young adults at a particularly delicate and decisive age, a “transition” age. But this is not the case. Because with Our Fault, we are faced with a saga born on Wattpad by Mercedes Ron, who just recently signed an agreement with Prime Video for at least ten adaptations of as many of her successful books.

The Fault saga then became a film starring protagonists Nicole Wallace and Gabriel Guevara as Noah & Nick, the couple at the center of the story. Impossible because they are brother and sister, acquired from the marriage of each other’s parents. Behind, a concentration of banality and absurdity, even trying to wink at romcoms but sinking into the most superficial of relationships. Supporter that films should be judged by their target audience – something that does not always happen in this world of journalism, since you have to watch a teenage film as much as one feel-good movie Spanish, like the new American blockbuster of the moment-no context in which to see Our fault (premiere on October 16) it was going to be better than sharing the experience with the 100 fans who Prime Video he invited the premiere of the finale of the Guilty saga in Ibiza. A hammock in the hotel pool, a blanket, popcorn, and a can of water labeled “My Water”. Can you tell that we are talking about the most successful Spanish production on the platform worldwide? Teenage fans have always been the ones who move the world, and the novels Mercedes Ron has achieved are just one more example of this. So, these films will have something to hook young people around the planet.

Our Fault: The Story Plot

The ending definitely leaves fans satisfied! After what happened in It’s Your Fault, Nick and Noah see each other again during Jenna and Lion’s wedding. Both are happy and end up spending that night together. When Nick wakes up the next day, however, he is a totally different person. In fact, he doesn’t want to pair up with the young woman again, as he can’t forgive her for her betrayal of Michael, even though he had kissed Sophia first. At this point, Noah decides to wait for the right person for her, while Nick works in the London office. In the company, however, things are not going well at all, and someone even tries to kill his father, William. The guy is ready to do things differently, while Noah gets a job at a tech company, led by Simon. The latter immediately appears interested in her, and she decides to try to move forward. Meanwhile, Nick decides to announce that he is in a major relationship with Sophia to save the company. Not only that, he also takes control of Simon’s company and prohibits love affairs there. In the meantime, let’s find it again, Maggie, Nick’s sister, who returns home to be with his father for a while, although the relationship is not idyllic. Because of this, he ultimately spends a lot of time with Noah.

Our Fault Review and Analysis

The heart of the film remains the tormented bond between Noah and Nick, a former couple marked by a complicated past and a love that refuses to die. Their meeting at a wedding on the island of Ibiza rekindles the spark, but also the usual misunderstandings. Meanwhile, Noah attempts a relationship with Simon (Fran Morcillo), the only truly kind character, and for that, he is doomed to failure. The entanglement develops predictably between jealousies, misunderstandings, and an antagonist (Michael, played by Javier Morgade) who seems to have come out of an afternoon soap opera. On an aesthetic level, Our Fault shines: postcard locations, neat outfits, warm lights, and elegant sets that evoke more of an advertising campaign than a drama film. However, behind this glittering veneer lies weak writing, made up of contrived dialogue and recycled romantic clichés. The direction points to an aesthetic “ultra-glossy”, but the result is a film that is good to watch and hard to hear. Every emotion appears filtered, as if the story were more interesting in surface than substance.

The soundtrack, a blend of electronic pop and EDM in various languages, accompanies almost every scene with a sugary tone that emphasizes more than tells. Moments of silence or tension are continually filled with glossy music, preventing the film from actually breathing. The result is an audiovisual experience that is constantly pleasing to the ear, but slips away without a trace. As the final chapter of the trilogy, Our Fault offers fans a coherent but unmemorable epilogue. There is no growth in the characters, nor a real sense of emotional closure: everything is resolved according to script, without risks or surprises. For those who have followed the story from the beginning, the film can still represent a sweet and familiar farewell. For those now approaching the saga, however, the impression will be that of a lucid melodrama but devoid of intensity.

Our Fault begins with a first part that explicitly pays homage to the romantic comedies, with all the stylistic features of the genre: a wedding. Jenna and Lion’s Wedding proves to be the “perfect” venue for the reunion between Noah and Nick. But have they really matured? This is the real question we must ask ourselves when faced with developments that are not only superficial but also paradoxical. It’s as if they’ve concentrated the events of a lifetime into one film. Unexpected returns and a little bit too free. Old and new relationships questioned, arguments and twists show a development of the various storylines between the unlikely, the exaggerated, and the surreal, especially in the more action parts, which in this final chapter clash with the rest of the plot.

The musical guest star on duty is not enough. A now (quite) close-knit cast is not enough. A new entry that tries to complicate things like this is not enough. Fran Morcillo, who plays Simon, Noah’s new love interest. An impressive soundtrack is not enough, and the directed by Domingo Gonzalez, who also returns as an author together with Sofía Cuenca. Both try to mix genres. The result is then a jumble of topics, styles, and archetypes in which nothing is ever truly deepened and everything remains dramatically on the surface. First of all, feelings, which especially today should be explored and analyzed as much as possible, especially when it comes to products intended for boys and girls who are getting to know themselves. Those who are still forming their own are emotional and still building their own personality. Which we hope are not those of Our Fault.

It was its protagonist, Noah (Nicole Wallace), the girl who didn’t need her love interest Nick (Gabriel Guevara); he saved her, or he drove his car for her, which made this new teenage bet more than just another of those movies that seem made expressly for girls to dream of a dick who does the least for them. He took just enough seriously and did not give up the typical “special” moments of the genre – “volcanoes of fire in your mouth”, we look at you -. The second, we will admit, was harder to watch. Expectations were so high that the fact that both protagonists distanced themselves due to an exasperating and incomprehensible lack of communication caused the entire plot to become ballistic, so the third came with the doubt of whether it would plummet as a result of that continuation or if it would remind us why we enjoyed the first one so much. Luckily, the second case was the one that occurred.

The sighs when seeing the protagonist appear for the first time, the suffering when the plot became complicated, the laughter with those wonderful secondary characters – a call to what Victor Varona and Eva Ruiz they get the recognition they deserve-… The fans are the most dedicated, but also the toughest judges when they don’t like something, and their reactions didn’t lie. The third installment is the ending that the saga and, above all, its followers, deserved. But one cannot judge only by what others think, so here is the official opinion for which you have decided to read this review: yes, this is a teenage film, and no, it is not going to be awarded for anything. However, this ending collects the best of this entire experience: that drama that fans live like no one else, those declarations of love that make adults roll their eyes, those laughs that really make you laugh, and that darker part that makes you wonder “but this is a thriller now or what?”. It is still not taken seriously, perhaps even less than what the first one was taken and, therefore, we cannot judge it by anything other than what it is: the fun (almost romantic comedy?), dramatic, and beautiful ending of a saga that will go down in history in the memory of today’s teenagers. The real award will be won in 10 years, when those fans remember My Fault and say: “My goodness, my myth, I was obsessed, how I liked it”.

Our Fault Movie Review (Culpa Nuestra): The Last Words

Our Fault is concludes the trilogy based on Mercedes Ron’s novels with a visually curated but narratively weak film. Between romantic clichés, rigid dialogues and glossy direction, Noah and Nick’s story loses emotional strength, remaining pleasant but superficial entertainment. Our Fault, the final chapter of the Culpables trilogy and reiterates all the flaws of the previous films. An uneven mix of genres and themes, without a clear picture of where to go. A conclusion that puts all the possible ingredients in the cauldron, even those that have nothing to do with the recipe, for a dish that looks like an improvised paella, in which you think you just need to mix at random to obtain a product that appeals to the public.

Cast: Nicole Wallace, Gabriel Guevara, Fran Morcillo, Javier Morgade, Eva Ruiz, Víctor Varona

Directed: Domingo Gonzalez

Streaming Platform: Prime Video

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 2.5/5 (two and a half stars)