Some non-Chinese and many monkeys. There are different paths. The toll track, which lies through the fields with fresh surfaces, allows you to relax and arrive from point A to point B with comfort and relative safety. A country road, with bumps, pits, is also the way. Whether or not you get from point A to point B is unknown. And the wheels can pierce, and the suspension can fly, and in a hole with water to stall easier than the lung. Where can I find help? But that's the way. The hero of the film “The Way” Alex (actor Dmitry Nosov) and goes through life just on the bumps, following in the fairway of the movement of the country.
During the years of perestroika, the state staggered so much that it eventually collapsed. People were staggering along with the country. Alex in perestroika years on the film went to racketeers. Who's behind him? Orphan! From this moment on, the story of Alex’s path continues to this day. Something nostalgic when watching the episodes. Thimbles. Bowls with clothes. The struggle to redistribute spheres of influence. Even then began this attitude to someone else’s life as a kind of optional trinket. So here: stabbed the main character, he lies, dies, people walk by, and no one will help. What would happen now? Same thing. Punctured traveler sharpened, he lies on the way, bleeding, but with the help of no one will come. They will move, and more likely they will clean their pockets.
But then Alex was saved by the mistress of the crime boss and, obviously, the first big love - a blonde named Juliet and a hospital doctor. Then the hero was saved from the road to crime by a sambo coach. Then Alex’s best friend, Dima, will take away the charge of murdering a villain, a drug addict, but an important person, taking the blame for Alex’s murder on his deathbed. Despite the fact that Alex is a tough guy, an athlete with deadly techniques, he is often rescued. But he does not remain in debt, trying sometimes successfully, sometimes not very well, to save human lives.
The film “The Way” is an action movie and corresponds to the canons of the genre. There are also superheroes, a special squad of Zeta, whose goal is to destroy the bad guys. The number of corpses of these bad guys in the picture is beyond reasonable limits, but the same sin and old Hollywood action movies. Explosions sound good, hand-to-hand combat is well staged, even sword fighting. But it all looks kind of unconvincing. Women have noticed this in particular. Of the three interviewed representatives of the fair sex, two spoke negatively about the picture, and one simply said “This is nonsense!” If you look biased, then this very delirium in the film “The Way” – a lot.
For example, the Chinese Chen, who teaches Alex and the rest of the team the art of war. This Chinese looks a lot like my neighbor, who comes from a Russian province. That is, you cannot see Chinese in this Chinese with great desire. Sticky little beard, normal face. Growth, yes, Chinese. Look at the Chinese, they don’t look like that. With such fees, you could hire a dozen real Chinese for this role in any Chinese market in a major city in the country. It would be better, and it would be cheaper.
Further, the modesty and even the wretchedness of the buildings exploded by the special forces, so to speak, in the enemy’s lair, is striking. The fact is that the villain in the film named Tiger is also from our Russian. He sells drugs in wagons, money - chickens do not peck, and from the buildings on his base only a shabby dungeon and three sheds covered with straw, which are actually continuously blown up by the fighters of the Zeta group. The fighters are also unconvincing. Actor Ivan Kokorin looks very inappropriate age for a recruit. Fifteen years from now, that's the match. In general, that is striking, all the characters of this movie do not change over time.
Pleasant in Russian film projects Michael Madsen. Madsen suggests in the film “The Way” in English our guys together with the Americans to save the world. Well, that's a good director's move. A dissenting opinion arose regarding another character - actor Nikolai Valuev. An actor, not a boxer. This film, where our giant played a cameo role, can be considered as another step in the development of the film career of Nicholas. Here he played the thug again. More specifically, an inmate trying to escape from a car. Again use his intimidating appearance and pood fists, similar to the project "Stone Head". Yes, Valuev’s hit in The Way is impressive, but again, it’s all expected. We have seen thousands of these strikes in real boxer fights in the ring.
Isn’t it time to change Valuyev’s image? I think he's going to look much better in a comedy role. With a playful cap on his head, or a cool baseball cap turned back. And so - Valuev in the picture "The Way" looks expected.
What should be added to the obvious plus to the film is the rather massive inclusion of representatives of fauna in the fabric of the plot. Elephants, snakes, monkeys, goats, tigers – I do not remember in our projects such representation of our smaller brothers. This gave a certain charm to the picture.
There are different paths. Rail, life, air. Alex has to kill on the chosen path, but on the side of the light forces. Ultimately, his light Path, as befits the canons of the genre, must intersect with the dark and the creators could not resist the stylistics of Tarantino: they showed what the neck looks like immediately after the blade steel separates the head from it with all the physiological details. This is a big deal, and in general,
5 out of 10