“Point: Zero” is a typical film of the troubled era of the 90s In style and plot, the film strongly resembles domestic cinema of that era - a bad film, an attempt to mould under American militants (as they were imitated here and in Eastern Europe), a lot of tricks, a little seriousness and political problems - and in the end the film looks like an unconvincing monument to a bygone era.
Two brave American agents (in the style of an agent from The Adventures of Captain Wrungel) arrive in Bucharest during the unrest in December 1989 against the Ceausescu regime. Their goal is to find lists of Eastern terrorists prepared by Romanian special services sent to the United States.
The actions of agents drawn into the whirlpool of popular unrest can be observed only with a very great love for the work of Sergio Nicolaescu. The film is frankly crisis and weak.
Only individual scenes of the film – columns of military equipment moving in the night, the shooting of Ceausescu, and the American agents themselves, snooping around the roofs, entrances and backyards of the democratic popular revolution – can help to feel the atmosphere of popular unrest and push associations with the events of the 90s in Moscow.
Nicolaescu appears only in a short and uninteresting episode.
It is difficult to recommend this film to the Russian audience - everything is too naive.
In Romania, the film collected a box office, but received negative reviews on merit.