Risk business It is not a common phenomenon when a good film, which does not need to continue its story, receives a high-quality sequel, after which, in principle, I would even like to wait for the third part, if suddenly the authors decide to make it. No, the second “Duchless” is almost inferior to the first part: the composition, visual presentation, passion and interest of the plot, even the number of naked female bodies was reduced to 16+ and only one beautiful ass somewhere at the beginning of the film. The sequel is far from the level of a real masterful masterpiece, which was the first part that played on the ashes of Russian cinema with lively and new colors, animating all this sea of rotten Leviathan corpses and soulless family pseudo-comedies with a truly strong and high-quality picture, which now appear unimaginably rarely.
However, the second film was successful in its own way. The continuation of the story completely casts its roots: the bankers, the characters of the first picture, with the exception of the girl Julia, the general outline of the narrative of personal degradation and, in the end, the plot entourage. However, risky business and expensive offices did not go anywhere, in the end, Duhless, no matter what part of the franchise it was, should sparkle with wealth, gloss and quality glamour.
The film, like the first part, can be characterized by one word - "gloss". But this is a quality gloss and only in a good sense of the word. Not that soulless popsovnost, dragged by the current cinema to holes, not those scraps of luxurious life, which are stuffed in unsuccessful romcoms about inappropriate for each other, and without excessive satiricality over the upper strata of society. The second Duhless movie is straightforward, but beautiful. Very stylish, and without blackness realistic.
The main issue raised in the picture is the issue of corruption, raised topically and sanely. And although everything in the plot revolves around all sorts of scams with shell accounts, firms-units and “legitimate” theft, the true villains are still exposed employees of the prosecutor’s office and politics. The plot from this became much easier banking frauds of the original source, and the essence of the intrigue for some reason completely destroyed even in the prologue, providing all the dirt, but the film still looks decent and fascinating. That began with paradise life and surfing, that night views of the capital, everything is served extremely spectacularly.
Jumpers still successfully puts the frame, although the work done in the first film was truly grandiose, here the direction is just good, but nothing more. The cast does without bright stars such as Belogolovtsev and Efremov, but there is a cameo of the director himself, as well as Minaev, and the appearance of Igor Vernik as the host of the party. Acting works of the performers of the roles of new characters are realistically good, although a number of dialogues are still far-fetched, there is no feeling of completely real and sincere communication, which was impregnated with the first film.
But, both in form and content, there is not much to pick on, just have to accept that the sequel, being an incredibly good film, is still a head lower than its predecessor. Nevertheless, such "Duchless" still stands out against the background of stillborn films of the domestic film industry. The movie is lively and beautiful, competently staged, well played and perfectly shot. At the same time, it is also moderately interesting, not without fascinating storylines, interesting finds, but still with predictable development and obvious plot twists. Yes, and the ending is smeared to the uttermost, because of it such, we can say not really completed, even want to hope for a triquel. In any case, despite the shortcomings and not the level of the first film, the second “Duchless” was successful and worthy of praise.
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