Everything is like in the fog I love war movies, especially when it comes to the exploits of the Russian soldier during the Great Patriotic War. So when I came across the film and heard the praises about it, I decided to watch it myself. The movie is quite long, so I expected to enjoy a lot of watching.
The beginning is shown very naturally: army everyday life with a boring soldier’s life, three very intelligent soldiers who decided to shorten the path on a bus carrying veterans, etc., but everything changes dramatically when a group of hapless soldiers led by a stupid pussy old man gets into the fog.
Further, either the screenwriter is tired of writing extra text to a whole detachment of soldiers, or the "actors" are tired of playing, but the detachment decreases before our eyes and their death looks by no means as heroic as the creators wanted. For example, why ride a motorcycle to the Germans swimming in the lake and tease them, when shortly before when checking the existing weapons were a pair of grenades, which they could throw from the shelter without incurring large losses.
Also in the frame regularly flash bottles of murky liquid called moonshine, why? Of course, I understand that this is the so-called national drink, but it was clearly superfluous.
2.5 hours I waited for the development of events, but there was no coherent love line, nor the development of mental abilities of woe-soldiers, and everything slid to the return of 1 Kalashnikov machine gun, if my memory does not change
8!. One was safely returned, the other went with a cowardly soldier into the fog, and with 6 others let the Germans have fun.
It is a pity that on the occasion of the 65th anniversary of the Great Victory, Russian filmmakers have collected such a crude film.
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