With such a plot, there is not a single word in the film that is not in the dictionary - this is not America. If you watch the film, focusing on this, then attention is drawn not very characteristic of frostbitten characters “literature” of speech turnovers, not compensated by jargon and euphemisms. In a charming episode with one hundred percent successful military field surgery on the abdomen, the undertrained “surgeon” is impossibly collected and cold-blooded, Simon somehow sluggishly holds Panin’s legs (under a scalpel without anesthesia), unsophisticated camerawork ... a sense of drama club.
Our answer to their Tarantins. There is no sense of comedy in the film. Simon looks more like a biorobot than a human. Too much blood and violence. Merges with the background unconvincing chief mafia Mikhalkov. Directing and acting work looks unsophisticated, unsophisticated and ill-thought-out - there is no magic kin. With the exception of the “portrait” of the city (N. Novgorod?) – the city is beautifully shot.