Brow black hole Good actors play tolerably in a movie with a bad script.
The story can be described as follows:
"Driving zombies through zombies"
Sees zombies in zombies
Zombie in a zombie
Zombie zombie zombie zombies.
Zombie, in fact, there are no zombies, but it feels like that.
The whole movie is a close-up. If this is not a close-up, then the frame is necessarily squeezed from all sides. This is a really uncomfortable film, claustrophobes strictly do not recommend, can go crazy. The sky, the sun are all bourgeois things, in the harsh USSR they have no place, except that a couple of times flash on the horizon or a random hint will let you know that they exist, just somewhere not here.
For the atmosphere of the film can be safely put “excellent”. For some reason I immediately came to mind “Silence of the Lambs” and the quest “Siberia”.
Tom Hardy, who suffers from eyebrow paralysis, is good here too. And Noomi Rapace. And even Oldman, who is disappearing in the film. But not as little as Vincent Cassel, who is trying so hard to beat Hardy's eyebrows that it seems the screen is about to crack.
But here's everything else... No, I honestly strangled a vatnik in myself, trying to watch the film extremely impartially. But even this approach passes when the antagonist for no reason shoots his subordinate in the back right in his office.
One gets the feeling that the filmmakers deliberately whipped up such absurd hopelessness, absurd cruelty, absurd visual blackness and stiffness to hide the absurdly sagging scenario behind all this. They wanted to turn the movie into a black hole. But -- we barely made it. And we ended up with a dark, atmospheric tale for adults, where all the imaginable cliches of the Cold War are intertwined. And eyebrows.
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