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hyped garbage

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

This movie a well as like almost any movie of this editor brings only negative messages to people. Nothing good in such kind of art, when you are watching just stupid film you didn't loose anything except your time and maybe small part or your taste(for most idiotic examples), but this one just cant keep any good person calm cause its full of evil and pure pointless inhumanity. Its an anthem for worst part of 90s in Russia, but without any positive message, just like propaganda of moral degradation and violence as the way of life.So i just cant recommend it for anyone except for professional critics and psychology fans.

Many people have already stated why this movie is excellent, read through their reviews.This is far better than any Hollywood dribble, as almost always is.I can see why many Westerners don't understand the movie - things aren't fed to you quite as much as they are in Hollywood. You actually need to figure things out for yourself in this film. It's great for it if you actually have a brain.Definitely worth watching. Slightly violent, but worth it.If you can't speak any Russian, chances are you will miss a LOT of the innuendos and not understand a lot of this movie.If you read, most of the "bad" reviews have come from insecure pro-Hollywood people who aren't used to foreign films and people who can't speak the Russian language.

You will be marinated in Russian-ness after watching this gritty crime drama shot in St. Petersburg. Set in the early 1990s after the fall of Soviet communism, it's a movie whose co-star is the place. The crime and gunplay in the foreground, which cropped up after the collapse of stern authority, seems to perfectly match what we see in the background -- trash-strewn streets, grimy flats, drug-fueled nightclubs. Everyone is poor or barely getting by. Even the gangsters, who you'd think would have some Scarface-type perks, seem to live in squalor.One thing that will instantly strike you is how everyone in the movie looks like someone you know, not a Hollywood star. I want to call particular attention to Svetlana Pismichenko, the film's love interest, who plays the driver of a streetcar that hauls lumber (?). She's not pretty at all, but you see the love she is capable of and, all I can say is I wish she were my girlfriend. Her last scene is one of the most memorable portraits of heartbreak I have ever seen. She has incredible eyes.Sergei Bodrov plays the lead, a soldier just back from Chechnya who is drawn into his brother's gangland activities. We never see a flashback of what happened over there and, when asked by others in the film what he did, grins and said he was a clerk in HQ. As we come to see the fearlessness and ruthlessness he is capable of, it is obvious he is lying. This man is steel tempered in a furnace. His gangster enemies are no match for a man with his willingness to prepare for and face death.I've never been to Russia, but I lived in the Czech Republic for three years and I can testify to the authenticity of this movie's backdrop. When the Iron Curtain fell, it revealed decaying rust belt cities, but also a tough-minded population of attractive and spirited people who, somehow, found ways to be happy in tough times. I am American and half Polish, and this movie made me proud to be a Slav.A scene in the movie is a homage to Russian good cheer. It is a party in a Russian flat where a few dozen people are chatting, eating, smoking pot, drinking vodka, singing along to a guitar, shooting pool and having fun. They're all young people in their 20's. You'll wish you were at that party.

Sad story about Russo-Chechen war and post-perestroika time. In fact, the war was not demonstrated, just referred. Young Danila (dim. from Danil/Daniil) returned from war with plainly simple perception: "killing can solve the problem" without even realising that it will cause other problems.Other aspects of ethics are fragmentarily gathered from official honesty, modesty, labour valour of soviet times and practical slyness and insubordination of soviet times. Add brotherhood here.And with this fragmented ethics and credo he encounters criminal world of Russia in 199x.Highly probably other cultures would not understand these inner Russian problems, as I did not understand problems of Columbia in Márquez's «Cien años de soledad». And the film really was not destined for outer world.Many people believe that Danila could be an etalon of purity and the right decisions about criminals (kind of Robin Hood's romantics for spectators). I suppose that those people are angry at life without possibility to change it, therefore saluting ultimate methods of J. Stalin.Personally, I think it's about broken youth of these war boys that made them not quite social, though honest.For those who did not understand it yet, Sveta pronounces this key-problem in plain Russian, at the end of the film.