One hundred years ahead: And so, on April 18, the premiere day, I went to the movies and watched a new film adaptation of "Guests from the Future." I will tell you right away, I did not watch the original Soviet series, and I did not read the story of Kir Bulychev, so I went to this film just to relax, and I was expecting this tape from the first announcements, and it was very cool! “One Hundred Years Ahead” is a great, Russian teenage fantasy that will appeal to all ages! The plot was exciting and interesting. Yes, it may be simple, it may be predictable for someone, and for someone it is not even logical and kringe, but as a Russian film it was very great, at least for me personally. 142 minutes passed in one breath, unnoticed. The jokes made me laugh, but for the most part I was giggling with the kringe! Yes, it is, but it did not make me very angry, the only scene with rap film absolutely does not need, I would cut it, here it I knuckled just! The graphics and visuals are amazing! The world of the future is very well designed, and not only it, you can see where most of the budget was spent! The cast is beautiful! I especially want to mention Dasha Vereshchagin 😍😍😍. She plays well and very beautiful, it’s nice to see her! I’m going to see this movie again because of her. The chemistry between her and Mark Eidelstein is superb! I also want to mention Sasha Petrov, now for me the role of Veselchak The best of all roles in his filmography! Well, Yura Borisov is our Feid Rauta from the second Dune, but only if he had super powers (just kidding). I liked the soundtrack, of all the songs I want to mention the cover of "Beautiful Far Away", I really liked it! “One Hundred Years Ahead” is a great, family-friendly movie for all ages. Children and teenagers will laugh with references to Minecraft, Fortite, and will also be delighted with all sorts of Geek references, well, adults will argue and again return to the beautiful far! I’ll bet you 10 out of 10 and recommend it! Go, though no. Run to the movies and go to this movie with your family / siblings / soul mate / friend or girlfriend! Or you can go alone with someone because it’s worth it!
I expected it to get worse. It turned out such a teenage fantasy ala I'm the fourth. Nice special effects. A scenario with a bunch of holes, not as big a pile as some dragon house or something worse, but anyway. To the final thanks, I would add "a man who believes in the future and shits on the past."
As they say, taste and color. My colors looked like this. The movie wasn't bad or good. It's not interesting. Anyone who has watched more than a couple of Hollywood fantasy blockbusters will be surprised. Not even the 1995 special effects. “Do you have any flying cars here?” Well, yes, of course there is no budget for such effects. And not the scenery, suspiciously reminiscent of old Hollywood blockbusters and exported on gray imports to our country. A secondary plot moves and video sequence. Why would I want cyberpunk running across the blade for half the screen time in a story that was so bright? However, if someone needs about the power struggle of good and evil, but again - why re-shoot it in a manner long mastered by Hollywood? Of course, the audience was not left without some interesting finds. But they didn't pull the picture out of the feeling that it was a "low-budget" American film.
I liked it quite unexpectedly, really. I didn’t want to go to the movies at all. It is a pleasant surprise!
The intention was not to compare with previous versions. It turned out to be very easy: the film immediately makes it clear – here is a completely different story. And in its novelty it is absolutely authentic (for example, “teenage” slang sounds natural and does not annoy at all). After viewing, you can compare.
“Guest from the Future” is a fantastic television series for children and adolescents, fabulous and fascinating, but first of all, it is children’s. Although pirates there are menacing, but still the story is so good that even the most dangerous moments do not make you doubt how this good can not win: in such a world it is by definition impossible.
And the image from the “Mystery of the Third Planet”, apparently, inspired the creation of the Glot in the new film. The gullet is really scary! Yura Borisov somehow magically reincarnates into a dead-pale, terribly frightening and with his short-spokenness, and especially with his human-like appearance, a ruthless, soulless, dispassionate creature.
Fun Fellow Wu really is a funny guy! Alexander Petrov was particularly successful in this role! They reproach him for the similarity of the image of a space pirate with Captain Jack Sparrow and with the characters of the Marvel Universe, even with the Joker. However, the trickster is both in Africa and in space trickster, and Alexander Petrov is self-sufficient: he plays as he can - but look at his work in other films: Petrov, exactly Petrov, his manner, his slightly crazy, crazy, style.
Rising star Mark Eidelstein perfectly drags the whole film, filigree not getting out of the caste and perfectly interacting with recognized masters of cinema. Strangely, it seems that handsome Mark somehow elusively resembles a simple Soviet pioneer Kolya Gerasimov (Alexei Fomkin) from the unforgettable “Guests from the Future”.
Undoubted advantages of the film: a fascinating visual with wonderfully executed special effects and computer graphics, as well as a luxurious soundtrack by Igor Vdovin! And how wonderful that the new film adaptation left intact the song “Beautiful Far” – variations of this melody suddenly begin to sound in some moments, causing nostalgia, and go into shrill code before the final credits – delightful!
It's a great movie!
I perfectly remember how I was in the movies and on the screen showed a short teaser, which did not leave without emotions. I was really looking forward to the premiere of this movie. I come from a generation that grew up on the last film adaptation, the songs from which we sang in school, and the soundtrack (how old is it?) heard in Yeralash. Music, that’s what I expected in the new film, except for the story itself. Thus, the music, plot and heroes of the previous film adaptation sat firmly in my head and, of course, the assessment of the film could not ignore this fact.
I understand perfectly well that in order not to be disappointed, you do not need to be charmed, you do not need to set high expectations, but you just need to wait for the premiere and go to the movies. That's what we did. From the strange, the older daughter refused to go to the movie, with whom we watched “Guest from the Future”, but happily agreed to go the younger one, with whom we did not watch the old film adaptation. Well, I thought, okay.
Everything in order.
Music.
I am very glad that we paid tribute to the great Krylatov. It was impossible not to guess the intro melody that sounded at the time when Kolya Gerasimov was flying over Moscow of the future in the old film adaptation. It's beautiful. The first tear came out... In one of the fragments, I clearly heard a tune from The Secret of the Third Planet, and it was a miracle. In general, the soundtrack of the film is very good. The Vangelis notes from Blade Runner are picked up, there's something from The Martian and it's all based on the lead melody "Beautiful Far Away." Bravo to the composer!
Plot.
Of course, it was naive to believe that the plot would be completely the same as the one in The Guest from the Future, as well as to expect that the plot of the book would follow exactly. In general, I am happy with what I saw, because 40 years have passed since the film adaptation and 46 years since the publication of the story and it was logical to take into account the past years. And both in the time of events, and with the characters, their clothes and weapons, motivation and so on. Shifting the plot could already create a rather retrofuturistic look. The plot sees references to all known movie universes, there are familiar objects. The characters have a familiar name and purpose in the plot, but a different look. For example, I’m talking about Werther, who was turned into a flying drone (hello to the robot vacuum cleaners and other things in our modern apartments). I won’t write much about the others, but space pirates on the one hand look more dangerous, on the other hand they still allow punctures, which lead to plot twists. Pirate Rat is also dangerous and is also the leader, but here he is more like the character of the "Third Planet Mystery". Our main characters have matured and the story already includes a love line, and one of the plot elements directly uses this “nuance”. Hello to the Fifth Element and Sleeping Beauty. I also liked the other characters, they are well built into the plot and are not "furniture" as sometimes happens. You worry about the characters, and in moments of breaking the plot in conjunction with the familiar musical theme, I blew out the second and third tears. Well, no one noticed.
General impression.
I’m glad this movie came out and I’m glad I saw it at that age. The main characters are no longer associated with me, but rather with my children. It is this nuance, combined with the blockbusters I’ve seen over the past 30 years, that has given me a holistic picture of what it feels like at this point in time. I saw the film certainly not as my little daughter saw, as well as viewers of one-year screen main characters. I think everyone saw in some hero a little of himself, his friend and girlfriend, his parents. There are things that are unchangeable through the years and a hundred years - it is "friends are known in trouble" and "love conquers death."
Good day, everyone!
One autumn day, Kolya Gerasimov, a student of an ordinary Moscow school, finds ... no time machine! And not in the apartment of an elderly neighbor (as it was in the book), but mysterious cosmic matter in the back of his physical teacher!
In fact, this matter performs the function of a time machine.
Casting. Choosing an actress for the role of Alice Selezneva is just perfect! It is impossible to imagine a better type!
Of course, we all imagined Kolya Gerasimov differently. But, apparently, the popularity of the series “Stranger Things” made a strong impression on the authors and influenced the appropriate choice of the actor (Eidelstein).
Space pirates have undergone a serious restyling! Both in appearance and in their social role.
Alexander Petrov as Veselchak U? Really? (Without the pounds of makeup! That's what it is! However, we will not refuse the creators to look at the story in a new way.
Yura Borisov is probably my favorite Russian actor to date. However, in this film I was not enough! Perhaps due to a specific role and too unusual makeup.
Screenplay. It sags in places... Especially in the dialogue and motivation of the characters, but for children's cinema 6+, in general, will do (If you do not think much about this chaotic running, but enjoy the picture).
Soundtrack. Oh, this touching melody about the beautiful far away! Able to touch anyone who was born in the USSR
By the way, despite the Soviet source, no more references to the Soviet Union in the film found. And that's good!
As a result, it turned out quite a pleasant mix of the works of Kir Bulychev and classic American blockbusters – Back to the Future and People in Black. Well, a little spiced up with some very strange things.
Russian cinema is moving in the right direction. For a juicy visual and cute Alice:
Alice, will we make a good movie?
The film is quite good, but it is greatly spoiled by excessive sterility, which in some places "floats" dramaturgy.
It’s not a children’s movie like the original 80s series. This is a full-fledged comic book filmed according to all the patterns of American comic books. And you need to evaluate this film in comparison with other representatives of the genre. At the same time, in the best Hollywood comics of recent years, there is still a trend for greater seriousness, realism, even some painful problems of society can rise. “One Hundred Years Ahead” is an absolutely toothless film in this respect.
If the film on the plot should show two different worlds, in this case the world of the bright future of Alice and, accordingly, the world of the present, then according to the logic of dramaturgy between these two worlds there should be a maximum contrast, opposition. That is, ideally, Alice from her bright future should have been, say, conditionally in Gotham, shot in the style of Balabanov, or at least in the light version of Gotham from Major Thunder. Instead, under the guise of Russia in 2024, we were shown an absolutely sterile, fake space that has nothing to do with Russia or 2024.
Because of this strange sterility, the film has a big problem with Kolya Gerasimov. The hero is completely empty, he has no arc of character. As a result, there is no love line with Alice, who looks tortured on the screen.
In addition to the script, the film has directorial joints. For example, abuse of voiceover. You can immediately see that the first scene with Kolya Gerasimov in the style of slime from the film “Kick-Ass”. But in "Kick-Ass" and voiceover used in moderation and the main character was presented well. Hollywood templates should be used correctly and appropriately.
Good stuff. Casting Director certainly need to give a double award Alisa Dasha Vereshchagina is 100% canon. Whosoever reads the Qur’an will not be able to read it. Unlike Eidelstein, Vereshchagin was also lucky with the script - there was at least something to play. Alice’s mother performed by Victoria Isakova is also a find for cinema. The heroes of Borisov and Petrov are normal. Special effects level. Well, in principle, not bad, but a passing movie, which had the potential to become something more, but did not work.
It's hard to start with something specific. Initially, there was little hope for the film. There are specific reasons. In recent years, everything that is a remake, rethinking or adaptation to the modern way, often turns out to be the “Beautiful dummy”. Thanks to modern technologies, the picture looks rich, bright, beautiful, but you can not make a film on one beauty. Despite the above, it is impossible to say that “One Hundred Years Ahead” turned out just so bad, there are undoubtedly advantages.
1. Graphics.
Yes, what I blamed the film for is the first plus, which cannot be ignored. The picture really came out very beautiful and detailed. Great landscapes of different locations were made, and the color scheme often perfectly conveyed the mood of different situations.
2. Actors play.
You can’t say that everything was rosy, but you can’t say that everything was below the floorboard either.
There were no moments when someone overplayed or did not play (except for one character, he will be discussed later), everything was at an acceptable level, and the actress Dasha Vereshchagin, who played the role of Alice Selezneva, more than managed to convey the character of a brave and daring girl, which is certainly suitable for the character. So, given that everything is good, this can be considered a plus.
3. Musical accompaniment.
Here, again, we cannot say that everything is perfect. In some moments, the music is superfluous or loud, and the theme of the main antagonist, which for the film sounds 3-4 times, becomes boring. But despite this, the composer managed to convey the general mood of the whole picture and the scenes separately.
4. An unexpected turn at the end.
It’s kind of a thing that should be in almost every movie, but what’s interesting here is that we were shown the background for this twist, but it was almost impossible to guess. As A.P. Chekhov said: “You cannot put a loaded gun on the stage if no one intends to shoot it.” And although there was only one such “gun”, its presence was incredibly pleased.
Unfortunately, the positive aspects of the film end there. Everything we don’t talk about is just below average. And now there are minuses.
1. Slackness.
The film lasts 2 hours and 22 minutes, but the plot itself is enough for a little more than 1 hour.
Scenes are constantly delayed, and there are no objective reasons for this, for example: there is a dialogue between the characters, after a while the dialogue ends, after which there is silence, which can last from a couple of tens of seconds to a minute. And this is the most banal example, such moments with a senseless delay a huge number. If the plot was enough for these 2 hours, problems would not arise, and so we have what we have.
2. Humor.
The problem here is, you might say, double. The main "joke" of the whole picture is Alexander Petrov. At first he really seems funny, but then he becomes just annoying, in places he obviously overplays. The problem is that the film tries to joke a lot, apparently based on the principle that at least some of the jokes will come. Some of them really punch for small laughs, but no more. Jokes are certainly needed in almost any work, but not in the amount that this film gives us.
3. Disclosure of characters.
No matter how well the actors played, because of certain problems with prescribing characters, none of them want to empathize, and the relationship between the characters is built literally on the go, having almost no basis for their development. But about the development of the characters themselves - it is absent, the characters for the whole picture almost do not change.
4. Cliche, because it is necessary
The main villains who, as usual, instead of acting, rant about this, although there is no need for this.
5. A large number of closed questions that arise from the viewer.
Who? What? Why? Why? How did that happen? There are no answers to any such questions that the viewer may have when watching and arose personally from me.
6. Paradoxes.
This problem is doomed to all films that somehow flirt with time travel. From the title of the film, it is immediately clear that it will have something to do with time. But the problem is not too critical, because, as I said earlier, it is almost inevitable.
As a result, the picture turns out to be extremely ambiguous, because on the one hand we have beauty, good acting, good compositions, and on the other hand it is drawn out, there are problems in the narrative that cannot be described without spoilers, and there are annoying and unnecessary moments.
5 out of 10
Verdict: No fish or meat. A movie that I don’t want to watch.
The pros?
Well worked on the graphics it, among all the new Russian, the best
The actress who plays Alice is well-chosen, a pretty girl, Petrov in the role of Veselchak is also a buzzer.
The reworking of the song is quite fun, but not better than the original, I mean the song "Beautiful far away."
? Cons
The very idea of the film fund to remake Soviet films is doomed to failure.
Why the future looks so much more harmonious in the series “Guest from the future”.
The directors tried to update the film with jokes from the present, as well as analogies associated with American films, at the domestic level could not come up with.
Kira Bulychev, the author of the universe, a Soviet writer, clearly did not write about such a future.
Yura Borisov does not need a great actor at all, but not here.
It’s one of the few films that I barely spent in the cinema.
Not bad overall. Motion and all that, but a fierce hollywood thing from 10-15. Fantastic fighter has nothing in common except the names of GG with the Guest from the future. You can watch it, but as a separate movie.
I will just present my impressions, pros and cons mixed up.
The main thing: I liked the film, there is no feeling of wasted money.
The film's title and Alice's world. They're just here to get attention. There is almost no connection with the series and the story. And do not look for this connection - just spoil your mood. You won't be able to see it either.
Actors. Alice's dragging! The girl is pretty, plays well, there is chemistry with Kolya - it is very pleasant to watch. Kolya is also fine, the actor can play. On classmates Kohli and parents Alice screen time almost no (left on the fights) - they almost do not worry. The students, unfortunately, turned out not just cardboard, but some caricature, the school is a tracing of Hollywood. But pirates on the screen glow longer and watch them more interesting.
Surprisingly, after more than 2 hours of watching, I am not tired at all! Despite the predictability, the plot does not sag, it is interesting to watch. Honestly, I didn't expect a big plus.
I was surprised by the low rating of 6+. Do you want to attract a family viewer? Perfect! But then remove the squeezing of eyes, greasy jokes, manipulation with severed hands ... Moreover, vulgarization does not improve the film. Why all this? Fortunately, there are not many such moments, but the child will have to explain.
I personally have no complaints about the schedule. She fits in and has as much as she should be in a fantastic movie. The film is on a global level.
Briefly speaking, it turned out to be a strong fantastic action movie about adventures, rather than Alice, but Bulychev’s Kora Orvat. I was glad to see it, after a couple of years with pleasure review and / or I will go on.
From the first notes of the musical accompaniment, a lump comes to the throat ... and there it remains until the end of the film. Because in this film, two things are very good - the sound and the play of Petrov (who was a little annoyed with his monotonous roles). But in this film, he is charismatic, wild and charming in the end. Everything else is terrible.
Why were you so desperate to leave the session? First of all, because everything in this film is a tracing from other films. And if the first phrase “Run the fools” causes a smile, further development shows that this is not a joke, but just “original” plot moves. Lord of the Rings, Time Patrol, Back to the Future, Attraction - if you've watched these movies, you'll literally be turned inside out by how clumsy these or other moments are inserted into this division.
The film itself is shot in a very gloomy scale, as if it is not fervent fiction, but some kind of horror. The acting at first seems original and cute, but then you realize that behind this sweetness lies stupidity, illogicality and absurdity. From individual monologues in places begins uncontrollably. . .
'Everything saved the development of the characters'... I wish I could say, but no. The only one, who will repeat again, is incomparable - Petrov in the role of Veselchak U. The only one who has a clear motivation. The heartwarming story of a girl who was looking for her mother is not catchy at all. Because the girl seemed not to find her mother after many years of separation, but met a girlfriend from the school cafeteria.
The backstory, shown with the help of either games, or CGI graphics (lousy quality) is generally something.
In general, being a big fan of Kir Bulychev, "Guests from the Future" and "Secrets of the Third Planet", I was not only disappointed - my indignation simply had no limit.
This is the perfect entertaining movie, for 2 and a half hours of which no one was bored - from 8 to 47 years old : Driver, fun, beautiful, emotional. Mark Eidelstein is worth learning his last name - he impressed me much more than Chalamet in Wonka, a wonderful actor! Petrov is really in his place, his character is one of the most memorable!
One Hundred Years Ahead is a sudden reincarnation of Kir Bulychev’s texts, in which there are more advertising integrations than clear plot twists.
The third (not forgotten?) film adaptation of the stories about Alice Seleznev fell on us unexpectedly. Not being a fan of either a cartoon about the Third Planet or a Soviet TV series about myelophon, as a child I loved the many Talmuds carefully collected by my parents on the bookshelf. I'll upset people like me. One Hundred Years Ahead is as far from the book universe as two Soviet creations. Therefore, the word "screening" here is more than conditional. Talking about the adaptation of the setting
Alice here is a pink-haired hipster turned on healthy eating and environmental practices. At the same time, she is obsessed with the idea of finding her mother, for which she wants to enter a cadet school (there are also such in the future). Kolya Gerasimov is a typical schoolboy-loser, secretly writing something (here is a rap) and having a friend-nerd (here is a gamer). More or less according to the canon. Accidentally finding an artifact from the future, Kolya moves a hundred years ahead, where he meets Alice, space pirates and a lot of adventures.
Apart from the scenario, which is extremely uneven and confusing, there is a big claim to dialogue. Raising the age of the characters, in the film they are 11-graders, the screenwriters for some reason left conversations at the level of younger children. Perfectly finished for the sake of setting jokes, about shift, about Chertanovo, about e-sports, are simply lost on the most boring transfers with platitudes for the sake of plot development.
The whole love line is very bad, in which only the first kiss looks logical. I won’t mention the final twist with the main villain, the stupidity of which the antagonist has nullified his entire reputation as a thin strategist. And these geographical inconsistencies ... leave to criticism Muscovites.
The images of the future are also rather faded. There are two in the movie. And if the second is simply written off from the "Blade Runner" and finished with collapsed panels, then the first is similar to the setting of the series "Two Hills" with its eco-friendliness and full sensations of rehab in a good suburban MHP. Probably, the numerous sponsors of the film, who appear in the frame at the level of "Watchers" Bekmambetov, should be glad that in the future there is "Russian Post", and the applications of Sber are loaded aki bees. Oh, this beautiful Russia boo-boo-boo ...
Disappointed miscast. I don’t understand that I played in the film Dasha Vereshchagin, often just being in the frame and suddenly bursting into action scenes. Good, in general, actor Mark Eidelstein is banal older than his hero, which is evident even by facial expressions. Khabensky also looks very faded as Professor Seleznev. He categorically lacks neither screen time, nor lines, nor drama.
I will keep quiet about very stereotyped schoolchildren: a nerd friend, whose nerdiness is expressed exclusively with glasses, a chick-beauty, with unnatural arrogance, and her stupid macho friend, who is needed for a phrase about Chertanovo. Let’s fly past another Mikhalkov role of God / king / demiurge / AI Fyodor Bondarchuk.
Are there any good moments? Sure. I told you about jokes. Their average level is higher than that of the Camedi Club. Nicely crafted villains. In Petrov’s performance, he steals half the scenes. Boringly, I notice that he just has no one to replay in the film, so he becomes prima. Glot is written off from Feid-Rauta and clearly sank in the recent Dune for the Harkonnens, but, in general, succinctly and accurately played by Yura Borisov.
'One Hundred Years Ahead' has some cool scenes and camera decisions. The teacher fighting in the hallway of the school in the style of the Korean "Oldboy", and her fight with Glot in the prologue under the blueprint from the battle of Darth Vader and the Emperor of "ZV" - it is not that fresh, but very stylish. Here is a good action, all the knack in the school is done talentedly. And good graphics. I’m not an expert, of course, but it’s not much worse than what DC or Marvel did in recent movies.
And yet, “One Hundred Years Ahead” is another proof that the main problem of modern spectator cinema in Russia remains bad scripts. In general, after a week, you will hardly recreate the plot of the film into a logical story that can surprise someone (I honestly predicted the finish in detail on the 30th minute).
But the images of Moscow of the future, the world of dreams, about which Bulychev actually wrote his books, could be fascinated. But in the end, only the laughter of Sasha Petrov will remain in memory, under which he brandishes katanas and goes to cut down enemies.
The beginning is a small story about the fact that one of the main characters Kolya Gerasimov, makes a vile act against a girl, a classmate. It's really gross, no matter who she's walking with. He is a scoundrel and deserves to get in the teeth. He's out of control. On the way, he climbs into a closed laboratory. In general, the main character is essentially a spoiled, unbred “child” who will most likely be beaten in the teeth more than once.
With Alice Selezneva close picture - does not want to get a minimum of high school, rude teachers. The only thing she is passionate about is some martial arts of war against faceless "pirates." The pirates were defeated at that time and the motive for training combat qualities is not clear at all.
The plot is quite itself - in time a third of the film - interspersed with the description of the future world of Alice Selezneva, as a projection of the future Kohli in the form of humorous videos.
Fun W is the best thing in the movie. Humor, taunting, taunting. At some point, you even get tired of him, but still a set of sparkling humor worthy.
The changed future is terribly illogical and desolate. Pirates are like a faceless force, nothing at all. Apart from them, the extra and the background is a solid desert - there are no episodes at all. In general - the ending is very strange, lubricated, inexplicable, resembles a flush from a tank. I didn't like it at all. It seems that the leak of the plot was subordinated to the idea of continuation and nothing more.
A bright future. It was there that the authors of the past and the century before sought their thoughts, for the most part. Where there are no wars and diseases, where children laugh carelessly, where everyone speaks the same language, they develop science and philosophy. The world of progress in everything good.
Not always, of course. In the West, towards the end of the 20th century, dystopias began to appear - in the format of graphic novels (comics Alan Moore, anthology "2000 AD"). In Japan, first of all, anime (Akira, Evangelion). We have written about this Strugatsky in those works that did not concern the World of Noon. But still, the desire for something good prevailed. Contemporary authors have shifted the scales in favor of gloom and hopelessness, where heroes in the mud and ruins struggle with the consequences of a nuclear apocalypse, an alien invasion, an epidemic or something else. A world in which you do not want to be. The reader and the viewer are deprived of the possibility of escapism - the main reason why, in fact, fiction is loved. Therefore, interest in dystopias (which are also prescribed worse and worse) flared up quickly and just as quickly faded. If there is no hope, then why plunge into such a world?
In the cycle about Alis Seleznev Kira Bulychev there was just a bright future with all its attractive elements. And the heroine is a teenage girl, close to those who are fond of such stories most of all. Children dream and want to believe that things will only get better. This is the base we all know.
In the new film adaptation for very distant motives (and recently only such and come across) Alice is no longer a girl, which means that naive curiosity, inquisitiveness and childlike spontaneity, as in the “Mystery of the Third Planet”, are in the past. And, for some reason, judgment. Alice here is broken by the suffering of childhood and wants to prove to her father, herself and others that she is strong and will cope with everything. If so, we will try to understand the whole film.
By the way, how to understand who is here GlavHero: she or a boy Kola Gerasimov - local Ezra Miller in the role Flash. He makes such a fuss that it’s even funny and hardly annoying. Due to his restlessness, the young soustenologist climbs where not asked, and becomes a McGuffin. As far as I know, McGuffin can't be the protagonist, so why do we keep watching events from Kohli's side? Does this mean that GG is floating? It's Kolya, it's Alice. ..
The whole plot is driven by the fact that Kolya-Ezra jumps back and forth for exactly 100 years. The point, as always, is to stop the villains and save the world. The time Alice lives in. And which we were very indistinctly shown: several backgrounds of Moscow with futuristic white buildings in the favorite style of Sergei Semyonovich Sobyanin. But when we are shown an alternative future, everything is shown in colors and shadows in detail. A cruel, half-dead world. You can see that it is much easier to portray the authors of the film, it is more understandable for them.
When the vestologist Kolya does not fuss, his baton takes over Veselchak U (A. Petrov). Surprisingly, two-thirds of the film Petrov in this role is good, because his friend Yuri Borisov in the role of Glot is frankly tensing. Fun is just that amusing, this is not a "standard Petrov", which has already scored rough. It has little in common with the book character, like all the other characters, but has some charisma. And, thanks to the children's rating of the film, it cannot show unbearable cruelty.
Speaking of ratings. What we've been shown to children under twelve may seem partly over-the-top and partly boring. Although in favor of the rating, the authors tried to avoid cruelty, rudeness, vulgarity, but the gloomy atmosphere in certain moments is not at all for 6+.
In Soviet times, a bright future was not difficult to imagine, thanks to the existing clear ideology. And not just Bulychev. All the same Strugatsky or Ivan Efremov, who in The Nebula of Andromeda created such a utopia, from which goosebumps run on the skin, and I want to run there. This is the future of dreams.
As time passed, communism was replaced by capitalism. And it seems that people have forgotten how to dream about something good. Few people believe that what we have now can come out the best. That is why we are drowning in endless ends of the world. Did the new Guest from the future give us hope that we still deserve a brighter future? Yeah, but it's kind of weak and insecure. Try harder, gentlemen of creators, try harder. We need that hope, both children and adults.
7.5 from 10
The boys liked it, the boys were 48 and 9 years old. We went today with the youngest to the '100 years ahead', share our impressions:
I honestly expected disappointment. Too often, Russian filmmakers tried to make a new film based on old material and were embarrassed. Fortunately, there was no disappointment.
Yes, Alice is not the same as when I was a child, but she is very familiar. A little different, but it's Alice. The actress was pretty good at it. Kolya is also a little different, but this is him. Here pirates are exactly different, although this is rather a plus, they have become angrier, scarier, more dangerous. Usually they like to scold Petrov, but here he is good, it just feels like he likes to act in this film. Although the volume on the voiceover had to be twisted, it sounds too quiet.
The film is long, but does not seem long. Special effects at the modern level. Staging fights, too, with slow-mo not too much. Advertising, of course, inserted at the very beginning, but very little and well beat, so it is not annoying.
Of the minuses, for some reason, Moscow did not make the future, at least in the form of arses and distant landscapes. There's no Cosmozoo either. Where's our favorite rubber crocodile and talking goat? With modern technology, it would not be very expensive. 100 years later, only one flyer flashed on the screen. As suddenly liked Petrov, so suddenly did not impress Khabensky, he is not here, the scenery is walking.
To summarize, the film turned out, I hope that they will continue.
As a fan of Kira Bulychev, I dreamed of a canonical film adaptation, word for word. Kir Bulychev was able to create miracles: strange worlds and heroes with a weirdo. Moreover, his ideas and thoughts seem fresh a hundred years later – for example, the main savior of the universe was only the girl Alice. Books Bulychev gave a string of brilliant female images, paradoxical plots and worlds. However, I understand perfectly well that now no one wants to refresh dilapidated plots, go through books and raise archives. The goal was to attract young people to the cinema who do not know about Alice. That's the big trouble with remakes. Either they’re re-shooted like Disney, leaving nothing new, or they’re almost completely dissociated from the original, like they did in One Hundred Years Ahead. Is that good or bad? We'll find out.
Plot. We are greeted by Kolya Gerasimov - surprisingly very similar to a book prototype. Not in appearance, of course, but in spirit. Once a bad boy is left after school, he finds a mysterious artifact, and begins an adventure with time travel and pirates. There is no longer the Soviet Union, but there is the Federation Space Council, and Fima Korolev is now a fan of computer games. There is no myelophone that capitalist pirates want to take over the universe, and Soviet scientists want to use it for good. What's the movie about? About the problem of Alice Selezneva - which has acquired a cosmic scale. She is looking for a loved one in a billion different universes, because of her search, miracles happen.
Characters. One Hundred Years Ahead gave us exceptionally charismatic heroes. Kolya Gerasimov with his charm does not easily save the film from failure, but incredibly catches his mind and resourcefulness. I liked that he was always looking for the truth, going on adventures, not afraid to stand up for himself, cheat and fool around. It feels the nature of the Bulychev heroes. For his friend Fima Queen special thanks - he looks crazy like the original, but now also handsome. Fun Wu and Glot seemed to be the weak link - but in the film, negative expectations were blown to dust. Especially the fighting scene in the school was successful - and humor, and inventive shooting, and the dynamics between the actors, everything is on top. My respects to the actors, all good. Except, it seems, Alice - who is not very memorable in this film. But at least she's not infuriating, and thank you.
The rest of the movie. Clear, calculated on the notes of the plot - this time the "Bondarchuk guns" not only hang on the wall, but also shoot. Quite inventive action scenes, fascinating graphics. Very pleasant, light humor is a huge plus of a family picture.
Cons. Why are there so few references to lore? Where is your favorite music, friends and relatives of aliens, Gromozeka, the cat Rrr, and the bird Govorun, after all? Where are the visual Easter eggs for fans? Very little fan service for people who know the original, and that's sad. There was still a lack of beautiful musical accompaniment - sounds from space, fascinating musical themes. In the rest - the film in every sense is pleasant, disposed to itself.
Over. The film "One Hundred Years Ahead" departs significantly from the canonical history, but they really tried and thought about it. I hope there will be several sequels in the future - with references, other worlds and lore expansion. Perhaps there will be a cameo of Bulychev himself as a great writer. Or a cameo of that girl from "Attraction" who was quite inspired by the filmmakers.
In any case, our hearts are now entirely conquered by the Girl from Earth.
I liked the actors (yes, and Khabensky did not play a drunkard - a plus), a lot of references to another fiction - on the one hand I liked, on the other - no, the plot - is small. I also liked the idea of changing the future (which, of course, must first come up with one too). And in general, I am glad that in the Russian Federation they began to shoot fiction and if not on the 5th, then on the solid 4th for sure. And of course, Kir Bulychev deserves to be filmed many times, children definitely need such heroes. And also - 6+ - well, this is certainly not the case, there are scary scenes, creepy pirates, I would do where 10+ at least.
An ordinary eleventh grader Kolya Gerasimov falls into 2124 and meets a girl Alice from the future. . .
In the post-Soviet space, I think, there is no need to remind who Alisa Selezneva and Kir Bulychev are, and about the value of this history for our cultural code (almost it was not said “traditional values”, holy and holy). Mystery of the Third Planet and Guest from the Future were the reference points of my childhood in the '80s. I remember very well how old the sixth-graders in Arsenov seemed to me - then they suddenly became my age, and then they were left in the past - and I, like everyone else, went into the future in the slowest and most boring way: "in my turn, year after year." What the children of the 80s saw in this future, you know perfectly well without me. And now, having passed forty of the set hundred years to the Beautiful Dalek, the counter is reset again - we have a new Alice, a new Kolya and a new Beautiful Far, already 2124 (it was 2123, but the shift of the premiere moved the future).
“Ordinary schoolboy Kolya Gerasimov...” – this is how the hero of the Soviet film adaptation was described, and the young actor Alyosha Fomkin (tragically – usually killed in a fire at 26 years old) was really this – the most ordinary. The new Kolya (Mark Eidelstein) is almost more charismatic than Alice - smart, charming, beautiful, ironic and even postironic - at key moments turns to the camera and begins to explain what is happening to the audience in a narrative tone. He's bold and active, and getting to know Alice and the future doesn't really transform him, which is a key difference to me from the old version. The new Alice (Dasha Vereshchagin) is also more extroverted. It so happened that the week before I saw the actress in Liar, and there she has a much more powerful and dramatic role. In the role of Alice, she has to mostly smile slylyly and... again slyly smile. This is not enough to overcome the barriers of time.
There is a lot of dynamics in the film, turning into fuss. Where the energy of the film sags, the main driver is urgently turned on - trickster Veselchak U (Alexander Petrov). That's really funny. Every second he laughs, jokes (sometimes tense) and breaks something. Against his background, the seemingly more dangerous Glot (Yura Borisov) and other characters pale and it is not for nothing that Petrov was placed in the center of the poster. The choice of supporting actors is not always successful - if the new Fima (Kirill Mitrofanov) exactly falls into the image of a friend, then Matvey Astrakhantsev absolutely does not look like a hooligan Vitka beating Kolya. The Hollywood comedy tradition is to take on the roles of 16-17-year-old schoolchildren 25-26-year-old actors. Well, to make a flying Pixar robot vacuum cleaner out of a Werther robot is a very bad idea. Ha. Ha. Ha.
In general, it seemed to me that the main reference for the authors was not “Guest from the Future” and not Kir Bulychev, but ... "Back to the Future" - from the general whiba of frequent round-trip transfers to direct quotes, for example, the "spoiled" future, which must be returned to its place by correcting the actions of the villain in the past (hello, Biff!) or the trick with paper writing to the future (Russian Post, well, yes!) to warn the hero of the danger (hello, Doc!)
Apparently, I’m still in the past, and the new Alice is for new teenagers (I watched the film with my 14-year-old daughter and clearly felt that this movie will never be for her what was for me “Guest from the Future”.) And all these movie universes close in one point - on the song "Beautiful far away". Characteristically, in the Soviet film, the authors were told to replace the line "he calls me not to paradise" with "he calls me to wonderful lands." It seems to be just one line, and what a huge difference. "Not in paradise" means in anxious, uncomfortable, maybe dangerous. It's not "wonderful." The Soviet censorship is no more, and the line about the “wonderful” lands remains. Probably because we are not paradise anymore.
After the rusty and inanimate "Inhabited Island" and "Guardian of the Galaxy", and even children's fairy tales that rattled at the box office after "Humpback Horse", it seemed that now there will be something kitschy and plastic again. But the creators of “One Hundred Years Ahead” either wrote down all the mistakes of colleagues in the column, or just bothered, but the movie turned out to be much higher than the average level. Here and luxurious acting, especially Eidelstein, Petrov and Isakova, good graphics, good humor and a quality soundtrack. Operator work and installation is also a gun. For all two and a half hours of the film, you never have to blush that one of the characters froze nonsense, or the actor faked, or the visual effect looks cheap. As it is now possible, not without songs, but it is only one, does not last long and does not cause wtf-emotions. “Beautiful Far Away”, which sounds on the final credits, is just a masterpiece. The first truly successful cover in Russian cinema in many years. At the same time, not all the intricacies of the plot are clear and often require an explanatory team. And of course, a movie for teenagers doesn’t have to go that long. The exposure is particularly overloaded, and the first action episode takes place around the 60th minute, which is certainly not a buzz. There is no question of who is against whom.
Even a shame that more than a billion with a ponytail at the end of the rental of the film can not collect. Maybe the movie has become too much.
Well, throw slippers at me, but 'One hundred years ahead' to me... Loved it!
Yeah, yeah, ME, the one who spit from the beginning of the GIB reboot mention. And I don't think I was the only alisoman! The saint was literally touched!
But I packed up and went to the movie with my family. And, man, with the first powerful sound of a cover of GB music, I got goosebumps! What a nut!
No, it's not without flaws. Rap here, as in Bremensky, was superfluous. The fourth wall was broken irregularly. And there are questions about Alice’s short pink haircut (she was blonde in the book, not brunette at all in GB). I'd like to put more Easter eggs on the GiB. Some kind of love for kefir in "Veselchak U" or "All people are brothers, everyone should help each other." Well, they made an Easter egg from Brother 2 (which I did not recognize, Julia told me).
The filmmakers walked right on the edge of the knife. But -- we did.
Now on the pluses:
1. That's a good shot. With well-designed effects, quite sane acting, nice locations.
2. They don't abuse GiB music. And when they do, it is appropriate and fascinating. Really fascinating arrangements.
3. Oddly enough, Alice sometimes even resembles Guseva. In the video at the tree, if she had a Red Sarafan, there would be a reference, but apparently decided not to overdo it.
4. Petrov, unlike other Veselchak U (The Innocent and the character from the cartoon about the "Secret of the Third Planet") looks sporty, pirated and viciously cheerful. In general, Petrov is handsome.
5. Werther's interesting. Not an android, but a flying android logo.
6. Special thanks for the dedication to Kir Bulychev, a man who believed in the future.
Overall, I felt like watching The Master and Margaret. Yeah, not a book. Yeah, not the GiB. It's different. And it's good that they went straight in different ways. At all. Let Fima here is just as philosophizing, and Kolya is adventuristic. But it's a different future, a different present. And that must be normal. In the end, Kir Bulychev himself after the 90s changed Alice’s world so much that what came out on the screen is better than what he wrote in the 90s.
Therefore, the authors of the film are a real salvation. They did not destroy the GiB and gave another Alice, who... well, has the right to exist. Quite.
10 out of 10
For a small time on the scale of the Universe on this planet, man tamed the earth, fire and water, flew into space, synthesized hitherto unknown substances. It seemed that man was capable of anything, but he could not overcome death and the unstoppable passage of time. The inaccessible can only be dreamed about, and therefore fantasies about eternal life and time travel have become an integral part of our culture. Now “One Hundred Years Ahead” is stepping into this field, but unlike many of its predecessors and perhaps followers, the picture uses a fantastic opportunity only as a tool to talk about more mundane things.
The moral of entertainment cinema often lies on the surface, so it is not difficult to read it. However, "One Hundred Years Ahead" is a real hard nut, and understanding its central idea took some effort. The “key” to the solution is hidden in a kind of cosmion – a strange thing, positioned as the secret of the success of space pirates in their difficult villainous business, because of what is perceived by super-strong weapons. In a sense, this is the case, because the cosmion is, in its essence and by virtue of its extraordinary properties, an auxiliary tool for the use of real weapons, which is nothing but knowledge, in particular, of what will be and what could be. Confirms this hunch about the cornerstone of the real story and the choice of a professional field of activity for one of the characters, since the teacher in the traditional metaphorical space embodies knowledge. What happens, at first glance, out of place conversation of secondary schoolchildren about their gratitude to the teacher, in fact - about gratitude to knowledge that allows you to change everything, including human destinies.
In addition to paying tribute to knowledge, the picture demonstrates another feature of its neutrality and meaninglessness without application, which can be both good in the primary shown future and bad in the alternative cyberpunk reality. The last proof of the weight of the chosen foundation is the finale of the picture, or rather, the key step made by its main character, due not to a random guess, not cunning, but again to knowledge. Thus the morality of this fable is simple and unsophisticated, and absolutely indisputable: knowledge is power, and only the effort made for its sake will never be in vain.
I have a contradictory attitude to one of the most important storylines related to some event in our present that determines the future. The idea that only external influence can be the key to success seemed unpleasant and biased, unfounded, because everyone wants to believe that his fate is in his own hands. However, if you look at what has been demonstrated from the other side, it turns out that the matter is in the right choice: in favor of interaction, not opposition, since only the first will allow you to build paradise on Earth, and the second – well, the picture shows clearly. In this context, arguing with “One Hundred Years Ahead” is somehow inconvenient, do not want, and there is no need, since the statement looks more than true.
Now about a spoonful of tar, without which, alas, no barrel of honey can do. With a well-developed dramaturgy, the script has problems with the drawing of antagonists, namely their logic and actions. For example, it is impossible to understand why the main villain creates limitations and problems for himself from scratch with his incredible abilities, thanks to which it is not necessary to make sacrifices. The film also does not explain why in a hundred years of alternate reality, the main villain did not solve the above problem, when he definitely had all the possibilities. In the case of antagonist number two, some combat scenes are illogical, say, meaningless and unfounded heroism in the second half. In principle, the need for his existence in an alternate reality is not quite obvious, except for the sake of fans of the artist. The theory of time travel is also probably confused, considering the picture on the tree and the peculiarity of its appearance. Given the authenticity of what is shown, although time is not linear in one sense, it is so in another, and then it is not so much time as just space, and what happened in this film to the end must have already happened by the time it began. And, if so, then the storyline dies before the adventures of Alice and Kohli, and the meaning generally flies into tartara. Maybe it's better not to think about it at all, or you can go crazy. Also misleading is the background of Kohli in the style of a computer game, since it remains unclear where such a game came from in our present, where the topic disappeared in the future, and what really happened.
I think it would be fair to praise the creators of the film for the selection of actors, and, in particular, Mark Eidelstein in the role of Kohli – very charming and has a very attractive appearance. Daria Vereshchagina as Alice here does not depend on the screen partner due to the non-dominance of the love line and is especially different from him externally: probably for the sake of demonstrating the difference between the present and the future, where there are no boundaries in self-expression and even school uniforms – no. I really liked Konstantin Khabensky in his small role – a master class on subtle psychological play. The role of Alexander Petrov is probably the most difficult, but he coped with it, managing to create an image not annoying, but charming, where laughter is not a bug, but a feature. Yuri Borisov is very infernal, but from the actor's point of view, the image is more boring than that of a colleague on the screen.
In conclusion, the praise of not the actors, but the specialists in special effects is really great, nothing cut my eyes, I did not want to roll my eyes and say “I do not believe”. The image of a happy and unhappy future was successful, and this traditional cyberpunk was not worse than in some foreign films, or even better. Finally, the director’s work is really good, and not only due to the permissible harmony of the picture, but also good dynamics: it is not so often that a movie in 2.5 hours looks so easy, and I do not want to look at the clock from time to time.
You know, before watching it, I thought I was going to scold “One Hundred Years Ahead,” and he took it and surprised me! I wish there were more such pleasant surprises in the future. Yes, there are some shortcomings, but they are not so great as to call the film weak or bad. This is a very worthy example of fiction: not stupid, fascinating, colorful. I don’t know how it was received by the target audience, but I consider this film to be an absolute success.
I’ll tell you right away, I like Kir Bulychev’s books, I didn’t read all of them, but many of them left a great impression as a child. Yes, some of the later books were already rolling, but still Alice and such an interesting look at the future was interesting to watch. The 2 most iconic stories are The Secret of the Third Planet and The Guest from the Future. The series this year turns 40 years old and exactly for the anniversary we are given a modern adaptation ..., but here let’s talk more.
The first thing that distinguishes the new version is the original title, which was the book, and most importantly, after a huge number of companies shown in the opening credits, we write in huge letters that it is based on the work. And here the authors do not lie, if you read the book, or saw the series, then the differences are full. Kolya falls 100 years ahead into the future, where he meets Alice and then has to save the Earth from space pirates. But the difference is in the details.
And in my opinion, the main difference is now the main character of Kolya. He and screen time has much more than Alice, and the main McGuffin tape too. I will not say that this is bad, the actor really looks good in his image and his story is interesting. The same Alice this time seemed to me, somehow too one-sided in emotional terms, and it seems that she has just a few heart-wrenching scenes. The main one is the scene of the heroes kissing. If the original book and the Guest were still about schoolchildren of the 6th grade, then here the characters have already raised their age, and they still go to school, but this is already the 11th grade and therefore you can add a branch of love to further attract modern schoolchildren. I will not say that the move is not working, but it is too banal and you will predict the outcome. Of the other characters, the most important difference was the 2 main villains. And if the same Glot, even less can resemble an image from books and even a cartoon (although it is rather an homage to Feid-Raut Harkonnen), then there are a couple of questions for the merry man. We all remember him as a chubby, if not fat, clumsy character who is on the Glot's backing. But here the authors focused on action (more on this later) and called Petrov. I will not say that he plays poorly, in general he looks quite organic in his replay, because he was told to play the Joker and he played.
What has changed is that 40 years have passed since the series, and now we have more special effects, so the main focus has been on the future and on them. And you know, for our budgets, they look pretty solid, I will not say that there is just some unique megadesign that we could not see in Hollywood movies over the past 10 years, but in general, the universe of the future looks organically and much better than 40 years ago. I don’t know why this time werther decided to convert from android directly into a small robot, you can see some fashion trend, but I missed it and did not quite understand. Another plus is pleased that the authors follow modern pop culture to further modernize the tape, so expect here and the mention of the Marvel universe, one of the items even from there will play an important role in the plot.
Well, the less pleasant moments are over, now about what you didn't like or could have done better. Well, first of all, all the other 3 schoolchildren from our time, it's just a collection of templates / stamps / cartoons, and there are a couple of jokes with them, but you could do without them. Absolutely stereotyped villain, well, I did not expect much from children's fiction, although the denouement with him could be made more interesting, somehow he just turned on the fool mode and fell for the trick of the main character. What I didn’t like was this action. I understand that we don’t have the budget to do John Wick or there’s already a Marvel movie to draw it all on the computer. But honestly, the battles are very poorly mounted, the constant tinkering is not clear, and almost all fights take place in some not very interesting locations, even the characters can not use the environment. I also frankly did not like the rap scene, well, it turned out quite kringe, but it is imho.
Yes, I no longer fit the main audience, yet the film is very much focused on children, but the tape has its advantages. At least it was interesting to watch, unlike the other two recent fairy tales in the person of the Ship and the Musicians. This is a good children's fiction and children it should go hurrah, parents have a question of how much they are ready to approach the differences with the original and the series. 7 out of 10
The beginning came out very cocky, more a series of disparate scenes than the whole picture. You don't always know what's going on, and that's too teenage. It might scare you away. But if you wait a little, give a chance, then from one moment everything comes back to normal and becomes very interesting to watch. Pirates liked it, turned out to be alive, cruel, even frightening. For example, in Veselchak, his laughter and constant jokes look not like a clown, but like the edge of madness. There is a feeling that the real pirates are now joking and in a minute they will be sent to the next world. The love line also looked stretched at first, and then organically. In general, if at the beginning of the film I thought to leave the session, so to speak, “it did not go”, then a little later it dragged on and I did not even notice how 2 hours flew by.
Friends, a lot of thoughts, so I will try to squeeze out the theses. I have a biased attitude towards some actors and Russian cinema to some extent. Don't judge harshly.
From the obvious advantages of the film:
- special effects, shooting, graphics at a good level
- The pace is very cheerful and dynamic, does not allow you to get distracted or bored.
Not bad fighting scenes
The complex theme of time travel was relatively successfully implemented, but not without problems in the plot.
The music corresponds to the scenes
- references
- The film is based on the novel by Kir Bulychev
Of the obvious disadvantages:
- a specific replay of Mark Eidelstein and Alexander Petrov
- a very crumpled narrative in the first quarter of the film and a long explanation of each step.
Feeling that many lines/scenes have been copied from some projects such as Star Trek, Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy, Deadpool, etc. I feel like, ‘I’ve already seen it somewhere.’
- I don't believe in some things. For example, how some characters get seriously injured and keep fighting, etc.
Some characters are either undisclosed or based on other characters. As U can be compared to Deadpool, and the protagonist and his friend can be compared to Peter Parker and Ned. Yes, they only partially resemble them, but still.
The image of the merry captain U (a strange name) was well executed by Petrov, but there was too much "light madness" and it was possible to do it more smoothly and restrained, with taste.
The main villain is quite unusual and Yuri Borisov played him well, BUT. What is this finale like?
I am that rare late Soviet child who has not seen the film “Guest from the Future”. Well, somehow it happened that the first series did not go. "The Adventures of Electronics" went on, but there is no way at all, either the boy in the lead role seemed hopelessly scary, or something else, and I immediately turned off the TV - and then with some surprise at school listened to the delights of classmates. "Beautiful far away" - yes, she sang later, soloed in the choir, the song was very liked, but the plot of the series had a very approximate idea. Therefore, the new film of Alexander Andryushchenko watched, as they say, “from scratch”.
So, a high school student Kolya Gerasimov (Mark Eidelstein) accidentally finds a cosmion in the school room - a kind of portable time machine, with the help of which it is transferred exactly one hundred years ahead - in fact, to 2124. There are very beautiful and clean, airships fly in the clear air, people do not eat meat, aliens study in schools with earthly children - and in general, this future looks like you want to go there immediately. In addition, in the future there is a wonderful pink-haired girl Alice (Dasha Vereshchagina), with whom Kolya immediately falls in love.
But, as they say, everything is not perfect in paradise - the earthlings and their allies in the space federation have a terrible enemy in the face of a pirate alliance that dreams of enslaving the Earth and thirteen galaxies. For the sake of victory over the captain of pirates, Glot (Yura Borisov), who with the help of the cosmion could change the course of any battle, Kira Seleznyova (aka Alice's mother) at one time was forced to leave her husband and daughter and hide in the past along with the cosmion. And now, to save the Earth (and thirteen galaxies) from destruction, Kolya and Alice must once again defeat the Glot, return the cosmion to a cache and restore the natural course of time.
Big-eyed, emotional, intelligent, unusually beautiful for domestic cinema Mark Eidelstein is simply fabulously beautiful. Against his background, Dasha Vereshchagina - a kind of kid, informal and as if a little homeless; of course, the artist and make-up artists tried with the image of the heroine, bringing it to a certain futuristic teenage ideal - but imagine what Alice will look like if pink hair is replaced by her native blonde. Imagine that? We wanted to make Lila out of The Fifth Element, but at the very least it was worth taking a more intelligent actress. And perhaps the idea of the creators of the film was just that – to Kolya and Alice looked like teenagers from completely different worlds.
But Victoria Isakova in the role of Kira Selezneva - of course, the undoubted cast from Trinity, but still liked very much. Perhaps, in Russian cinema, such a fearless and strong, winning all men heroine a-la Friedi (see the novel by R. Heinlein) was not.
Surprisingly pleased Alexander Petrov (Veselchak U). I never really liked this actor, but here he surpassed himself. The first ten minutes are annoying, in the next half hour it seems just attractive, another twenty minutes almost falls in love with himself (somewhere here the fame of Jack Sparrow fades)... and to the final almost a tear struck - well, you can see that he played just from the heart, in a good way broke off on the set.
From Yura Borisov for some reason made Feid-Rauta on the minimum - but, as they say, talent will not drink. From his voice and indifferent, mechanical gestures goosebumps run down the back.
And, yes, there is Professor Seleznev (Konstantin Khabensky). He is very sweet, loves his daughter and wife - but some spineless and partly even cowardly. For some reason, it sometimes seems that the cheerful hysterical and unrelenting fighter Veselchak U suits our Kira-Trinity much more than his own, so to speak, husband. At least because U had been waiting for her return for a hundred years (and even prepared lasagna).
Dark cyberpunk alternative 2124 sweet nostalgia reminiscent of the unforgettable “Matrix” – I don’t know who like, and I all looked for a bath with the inhabitants of the future among the eclectic heaps of luminous buildings of the future dystopia. I, as a fan of the theory of fan (parallel) worlds in general, this idea with an alternative Moscow is incredibly popular. It's just the cherry on the cake. By the way, the quality of special effects - they are really on top here. That’s just the first time I’m proud of the national science fiction film industry – if the quality of the picture is compared with some of the latest Marvel creation (with Quantomania, for example), then “One Hundred Years Ahead” will definitely break ahead (pardon the tautology) in all respects.
And, by the way, this is probably the first time in history when the trailer positioned the picture is much more primitive and ordinary than it actually turns out to be. And the final song (yes, yes, the same "Beautiful Far Away") against the background of the paradise of the coming 2124 will once again emphasize how far away this beautiful tomorrow is actually from us. Almost unattainable in a hundred and two hundred years. Well, if only - what the hell is not kidding? - and in fact to us in the near future good aliens will fly.
9 out of 10
A favorite childhood story in a new way. There were low expectations for the next adaptation of Kir Bulychev, but the tape came out dynamic, interesting, with references to the Soviet mini-series “Guest from the Future” and the cartoon “Secrets of the Third Planet”. In fact, we have a narrative on behalf of Koli Gerasimov, who lives in modern Moscow in 2024. Actor Mark Eidelstein at first was not perceived, because nostalgia for Alexei Fomkin and his image of the Soviet pioneer, but then you just get used to him.
Immediately it is worth noting that the Soviet mini-series clinged to everyday issues (especially the timing of 317 minutes could allow it), and here modern Russia and a full meter. Therefore, the school and everyday life of Koli we have a little, but there is immediately an appeal to the viewer. The authors mixed fiction, aliens, random signal to lead the viewer to change. The impetus for progress began in 2024 (we will wait, of course) to start the line of progressive events.
The protagonist conducts a dialogue with the viewer, warning and intriguing to find a mysterious artifact ("Alice, myelophon I have!" as an example) that will serve as a collision of worlds. In this feature, the main character (chosen, important, special, etc.) is Kolya, not Alice, so we are waiting for the acceptance of reality, time travel and the salvation of humanity. In the modern world (our year), the plot introduces Kohli’s friend Fima to please with references to Marvel, Star Wars, The Butterfly Effect and numerous hamstrings.
The appearance of the villains was impressive. Alexander Petrov’s Fun W is revealed later, as we see first one character in our present and then in another time. Glot from Yura Borisov is Austin Butler in the sequel to Dunes. You feel that this is not just a villain, that this is the very destruction of the world. We are gradually revealed the features of telekinesis and mental communication, to show on a dramatic note the full power of the villains.
The film classically demonstrates the hunt for an artifact to move heroes from the future to the past. Action, fights and humor from Petrov (also known as Fun) – this collaboration works for the viewer. In some places, acid flashes and character movements are annoying, but you know what the heroes need and worry about every step. Alisa Seleznyova performed by Dasha Vereshchagina presents us with a character who lives in 2124. You see, Alice from the Soviet TV series, for all my love for Natalia Murashkevich, was still the same Soviet pioneer, and here we have a character living in another century.
Time travel raises questions about the space-time continuum, so Dr. Brown’s theory and a beautiful blend of time are waiting for us. A little bit of the future, important details for the heroes in 2124 to go back to 2024 and show the battle. The film focuses on Alice's parents to convey the drama of devastation, unexpected discoveries and pleasant encounters. Konstantin Khabensky pleased, Victoria Isakova gave the action on the screen. What about Werner's robot? This is now... the movie "Flubber" (1997) will come to your mind.
The plot does not strain the flow of action, but in some places the issues remain unresolved. The situation with the character of Petrov, of course, interesting, but it raised a number of questions. But the cunning plan Glot just led the audience to the main climax to leave the "Easter eggs" of the past in the future. You know that feeling when a character from the past leaves a sign to his descendants, but he was initially emphasized? It’s a thrill to understand communication and communication through the years. On this note, “One Hundred Years Ahead” brings the viewer to the closing credits.
As a result, this is an interesting film adaptation, where charismatic villains (directly opposite to each other Borisov and Petrov), an intriguing secret of Professor Seleznev and a beautiful twist with the resourcefulness of Bones. It seems, and how you explain this episode here, the film provides the answers, closing the storylines that began. A sequel to this particular story is not needed. But Kir Bulychev has many stories about Alisa Seleznev, maybe we will encounter these same characters later (in the future). Although the sequel to the Soviet mini-series “Lilovy Ball” did not find such popularity as “Guest from the Future”. Therefore, it is better to leave this movie in an exceptional copy.