Falling down meets American Psycho - if both were stripped of social commentary and done by a fifth grader.
The script is all over the place. The movie makes absolutely no sense and the dialogue is stiff, bad and devoid of any charm or humor – especially the moments that are supposed to be funny.
Even Peter Stomare, despite giving it his all, gives a half-baked performance with an unfathomably ill-fitting accent. However, it may be because of bad writing…
This film is a terrible disaster.
The leads are insufferable—racist, sexist, and murderous—completely lacking charisma or redeeming quality. Worse yet, the performances are lifeless and so full of themselves that it becomes impossible to get invested in them.
You certainly can make movies about antiheroes or despicable characters, but they need to offer something, like depth, intrigue, a compelling storytelling or at the very least be so grimy that it is obvious you are not meant to sympathize with them…
This movie can’t pick a tone.
It is trying to be funny but fails miserably.
It tried to be cool, but I can’t exactly say that it succeeded with that.
The editing is off – REALLY OFF. The pacing is off. The acting… well, I have seen many of them in other movies where they are better.
The only thing that just slightly works for this movie is that all the Italian gangsters are old people, who struggle walking up…
A charming, Stalinist film about happy peasants bringing in the harvest and having a harvest festival, because their harvest was so bountiful. Oh, and there is a couple in love as well.
The film has one of the most famous Soviet opening scenes, with the men and the women singing a song about the lovely harvest.
If you can ignore the fact that the movie was made during one of the last famines in Soviet (and Russian) history, the film has some charming qualities. At least as a kitch film.
