Bu Kazakhstan by John Wikase I will say right away, this is essentially an attempt to shoot his Wick in the Kazakh style - the attempt failed.
I got acquainted with the Kazakh cinema with Racketir, and after that I watched several dozen different films. From crime to really good and funny comedies. I have infinite respect for the Kazakh cinema, they have proved that they can make good, interesting films for adequate, if not in general for ' pennies' on the scale of Hollywood money.
What can be said about this film, controversial feelings after watching it, I don’t even know if I regret the time spent, I don’t know if I would watch it knowing what kind of film it is – hardly. Let’s go through the specifics of the film, from the obvious disadvantages:
- As such, there is no disclosure of characters, motives and their behavior. Who, what, why, why, what did it do, what is it connected with, who has what relationships - these questions I asked myself almost the whole picture.
- The plot he seems to be, but it is not realistic, especially the behavior of the antagonist, his father in these situations, the creators generally imagined what it could be, even in an anecdote it is difficult to imagine.
- The main villain, as I saw immediately in him I saw the antihero and the main boss from Far Cry 4 - unfortunately I do not remember his name, but as I saw, immediately exclaimed to myself - it is he - 'Bosyansky' from Far Cry 4. At what, the character of the film, as much as possible tries to match his image and the above-mentioned game, it looks terrible and not believable, especially his behavior and his actions, which I wrote above.
- The production of action scenes, the basis of the action film, will be held in clubs, and as many as three times under the rave muson, a la & #39; no one knows the film' By the way, while watching these scenes, what you saw reminded the game Hotline Miami. The fights and shootouts themselves are staged, also in the style ' no one knows the film'. By the way, I am 101% sure that if there was no film John Wick, then this film would not have been, because the basic idea of the universe and almost all action, were borrowed from there.
- The confrontation of one against the whole army, in these moments, the advertising is remembered ' and let the whole world wait' until our hero finishes his business, and the police, as befits it, will arrive when the corpses begin to decay, taking into account that everything that happens in the city, in the club, far from the outskirts of the city.
- Yes, and the fights themselves cause a lot of questions, then the guards have weapons, then they have no weapons, then the hero just comes in and almost looks, or rather with his hands knocks out four at once. Especially, I liked the final mix, where the prepared numerous guards with weapons and without could not cause any damage to the hero, but the old pussy is not a young man, could almost kill the hero - why ask you? - because it is Last boss and Final Fight.
- In the film there are dialogues in the Kazakh language, I am a Tatar, and our languages are very similar, I understood what was being said, but a person who does not know what they are talking about, and some dialogues are directly related to the plot of the film, you could insert at least subtitles.
I don’t know the filmmakers, I hope you read this. You know how to make good and really interesting movies. You have already proved this by making a lot of good pictures. Embody your ideas, your thoughts, do not try to copy successful franchises, there are very few people in the world who can do this, and in fact I do not even know them. Copying does not lead to anything good. John Wick is an interesting movie, an interesting universe (which began to roll in my opinion, but still) is their thoughts, their universe - don't try to copy it. Come up with your own universe, because you have enough gifted people – do not copy the West, invent your own – let the West start copying you (and it is possible to take the same remade films from Japan and Italy (this is the first thing that comes to mind)
To sum up, honestly, if this film was not a direct copy or attempts ' to shoot the same ' the film would look good, and nothing outstanding, an ordinary action movie for once, but without a residue about the time spent, a mini attraction for an hour and a half. And so, this film seems to be a homework assignment, from the category - ' and I can shoot no worse than Wick' and just like that, the film looks comical, not natural and disgusting, constantly there is a feeling, and somewhere I have already seen it, but more qualitative and cooler.
Shoot your movie, your thoughts, and do not copy the West, and all you will succeed, as it turned out never before, good luck to you in this not easy film business.
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