Not mad dogs. Klim Shipenko is definitely an accomplished director. Not every graduate of film school can open his filmography full meter, in which he is not only a director, but also a screenwriter. And Klim did. And even the budget was not allocated to him from the most modest - what else can a young author wish for?
Klim likes movies in general and gangster movies in particular. It is clear that Klim has repeatedly watched the films of Tarantino and Richie. Klim definitely had the idea to make his film in the style of favorite authors. And there's nothing wrong with that idea. But, apparently, the paintings of Richie and Tarantino will forever remain on the unattainable top. No matter how much young authors (and not always only young) try to adopt their style with which they pour blood on the screen, nothing useful comes out of such an undertaking, and so far no one has stood up with them in the same row.
But why not still try to make a great genre movie, with lashy dialogues, colorful characters, multiple twists and turns of the plot and a stylish picture? Klim Shipenko did it. And what did he do in the end?
In Unforgiven & #34, there are all the ingredients for which we love Tarantino and Richie’s movies. Many characters fill the screen time. Today you could think that this film is another cut series, so everything is outlined capitally. Each hero has his own separate story and each is allocated a considerable amount of time. There are car Tarantinian dialogues "about nothing", only listening to which is not particularly interesting.
Next on the list is a fashionable clip editing, fights and shootouts. Only this cocktail at Shipenko does not please either the eyes or ears of a lover of such films. And you can not accuse the authors of hacking, it is clear that everyone tried. But as they say, fish rot from the head. In this case, the script is limping on both legs.
So what is this movie about, what is its main intrigue? “Six Destinies is One,” reads the slogan of the film. The meeting of these destinies is told in more than detail, but the denouement itself turned out to be too clumsy, leaving in perplexity. The script is full of various kinds of flashbacks, and memories.
The story begins to twist with the appeal of the ex-fiancé to his beloved from the distant past, with a request for help in a difficult situation with a criminal shade. She once helped him get out of problems, which later affected their future together. Now she's a brothel owner with some influence and connections, and he's in the construction business. She decides to help him and collects her children for the next business.
The first hour and a half will tell us in detail how each of the participants came to such a life. And the denouement itself will leave a pitiful 15 minutes, in which they will try to accommodate the disclosure of intrigues, which could turn into another one and a half hours of screen time. From such a rush in the finale, there is a feeling that the film is tired, and wanted to quickly say goodbye to his audience.
All this multifaceted story is played out on the screen mostly young actors. The dialogue in the film leaves much to be desired, most of them are too template and pathos. And then half of the responsibility lies on the shoulders of performers who fail to fully plausibly pronounce the lines from the script, it feels that they try to play their roles, but do not live them.
Another thing is that the characters they embody on the screen do not cause much interest and especially sympathy. And some lines of characters could be cut or cut, so they do not play any significant role in the plot. For example, the line of Andrei and his tragic love is not particularly important for the story as a whole and looks like part of another film. No more is better.
In the end, the film is not balanced. He's thrown from side to side. The interaction of the characters, whose images were so carefully depicted throughout the film, at the time of the case itself are left behind, as is the case itself, thereby making the previous hour and a half unreasonably prolonged.
After watching, there are no emotions, except that the desire to redirect the creators of this picture, the gesture of one of the characters in the last frame of the film.
2 out of 10