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How sad is this?

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Everything than can go wrong in a human's life happens in this movie. To the point it starts to feel a bit stupid. Also some scenes drags out too much to the point you ask if it was necessary to have them there. Also some very weird character choices that makes you wonder. But it had very good acting and interesting story and characters. So I would recommend watching it.

In Russian style, the story challenges constructs of modern society. In this case, social contract theory is under attack showing how governments can easily become a vehicle of corruption, thereby destroying more liberty than it serves to protect. Along the way, the story provides stunning backdrop of Russian landscapes and a positively warming depiction of Russian culture and it's people. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.

I sometimes think people add an extra 5 points on this site when they see something with subtitles.I give this sleeping, depressing movie a 3, just for the one scene where I get to see how country bumpkin Russians have a fun camp out with 'drinkin n shootn'. They have more in common with the Americans than they would admit.To then have this 'idealic' scene be lost to a strange and bizarre incident that they don't fully explain until near the end of the movie, was just ridiculous and jarring. You are forced to do headcounts in every scene to see who got murdered. Why did the drunk with the AK let off a burst? Was he shooting at the adulterers? What the hell!Another point was the complete lack of explanation how the visiting brother could get away with having sex with his brother's wife constantly without getting caught, yet he's supposed to be there visiting and staying with them.The big fat drunkard mayor, who reminded me of Rob Ford, who suddenly turns into the maniacal dark mob demon, is also jarring and unbelievable.The drinking in this movie is so beyond belief. I understand Russians like their vodka, but are we expected to believe working class farmers and fish packers can afford to drink 2 bottles each a day? How are they not dead at 30? The next thing they do very weirdly in this movie is give you the rare opportunity to observe the entire opening readings, twice, of Russian court proceedings. in... a.... monotonous.... and rapid.... female Russian voice.There is no acting going on in this movie, as apparently the entire cast was encouraged to drink heavily, so we have drunken Russian bumpkins, a snob lawyer from Moscow, and a Rob Ford corrupt mayor look alike, all babbling drunken slosh at each other and spitting.The only acting done was by the teenage boy, as I guess they kept him out of the vodka, and even then his performance at times stretched into hysterical screeching.

"Leviathan" is a visually stunning and powerful film—maybe "overpowering" would be a better word, since w/d Andrei Zvyagintsev tends to make his political points with (spoiler alert?) all the subtlety of a backhoe bucket… The standoff between hard-drinking, two-fisted Kolya and Vadim—the local satrap who covets Kolya's little piece of land for a project of his own (we don't find out what it is till the final scene)—is involving and suspenseful. The tensions in Kolya's household—especially the disruptions caused by the handsome guest from Moscow—make for a fine, simmering subplot, but after these story lines collide (an event we have to imagine for ourselves, since we don't actually see it on screen), it's just one damn thing after another till the film's bleak conclusion. I can't blame AZ for giving us such a pummeling to drive his point home, given the current state of affairs in Putin's Russia—and it seems to be working for him, since few other Russian directors get much traction in the West—but I didn't really appreciate what an amazing film this is till I'd had a chance to walk it off for a while… (One critic predicts you'll "stumble out of the theater," which seems about right.) You may have heard "Leviathan" described as a remake of the Book of Job; it is, with the proviso that it's the Leviathan (Job 41) that's calling the shots now, not Yahweh. Maybe it's not surprising that the satirical jabs at the Church seem like they're right out of an old Soviet propaganda film—I particularly liked the scene where the parish priest tosses a loaf of bread to a couple of snuffling porkers in a pen, then tries to feed Kolya a very slanted synopsis of the biblical tale. (Job's life starts to turn around, says Father Nikolai, when he decides to stop complaining…)PS—Just read (03/21/16) in the NY Times that "Leviathan"'s spawned a minor tourist industry in the town where it was filmed. Visitors come to see the Northern Lights, take classes in something called "snowkiting" and see for themselves if life there is really as horrible as it seems to be in the film