Star Wars: The Other Way Around? . From the first minutes of the film recalled the classic episodes of “Star Wars”. The ones from the late '70s. It is a pity, but the comparison is far from in favor of the Ark of Truth. It's not because I don't like Lucas. Quite the opposite: George Lucas created something that, in my opinion, no one has ever managed to repeat in the history of science fiction in cinema.
Someone was approaching the benchmark. But the creators of “The Ark of Truth” did not manage to repeat any achievements of George Lucas: neither textured characters, really different, and therefore alive; nor the abundance of locations; nor the scale of general plans and their dynamism; and, what surprised me very much, they did not try at all on the computer graphics of “The Ark” and on the scenes with pyrotechnics.
So why did I remember Star Wars while watching the first minutes of The Ark of Truth?
The scenery. Clean, verified, like from the city theater. I looked at the screen and saw the set, not the movie. Such "staged" pretentious and fantastic scenery can boast of many films of the 80s, and to watch similar (and still, not so poor) in the classic episodes of "Star Wars" is unabashed. It was in the '80s. And if I were in the theater today and saw such scenery on stage, I would sincerely admire the spectacle!
But I was not in the theater, and watched a fantastic movie on the screen these days, and for some reason I hoped that the creators would try to do everything organically, as many people can, so that I would like to believe in what is happening there. A lot of people do ...
About the plot of the film, about the legend of his universe, I will not even talk. The film will be clear to those who have watched the series. For those who missed the series, the filmmakers didn’t try to explain anything about its universe. Absolutely. Only at the end you begin to understand that militant factions have not divided, and in general, who came from where.
It follows that the authors of the film could not present a very interesting idea about overcoming blind faith. Because you can't give the audience a message if you can't even convey the meaning of what's happening.
4 out of 10
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