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

A fascinating concept: Moscow has an underground entrance to Hell that must be blocked off soon to prevent shadowy demons coming into the city. Underground, through tunnels and subways, are the homeless who, if they wander too far, become food for the dark, although this is left to the imagination, largely, through acting and sound that disturb the imagination. Before Hell is closed off by a Muscovite gang, led by Val Kilmer, unorthodox priest Father Owen (Vincent Gallo) must look for an anthropologist who has been seeking the way from the labyrinth back up to a church and is a lost, lone explorer. A small group of rescuers is led by Owen (including guide Joacquin Almeida (Clear and Present Danger), and the elfin Oksana Akinshina (The Bourne Supremacy), who turns out to have a prophetic significance for ghosts of children who were hidden under the church in 1920 with a guardian nun whose spirit advises them, including a lovely little girl in white who is like the good fairy while the other ghost-children, dodging demons, are less congenial, as the hapless rescuers find out. Following the advice of underground boss Tolstoy (Joss Ackland: K19 - The Widowmaker). they penetrate into danger and imminent madness following maps to a maze that don't quite make sense. There is a possibility of happy ending implied, but it is not definite, which some watchers will find disturbing. The hand-held camera-work in the dark is only confusing until you realize that it is exactly what the characters are going through, as they are taken by the darkness and the demons and pursued by the disappointed children who want to be free in the overground.It was a difficult task for actors but they resist a temptation to act big to overcome the limitations of darkness. The discontinuity is real; the unexpectedness is real; the real-time moments are real. Even the talking-to-himself of the object of the search, anthropologist Sergey (Rade Serbedzija: Shooter and 24) feels real. Amidst fantasy, the human situation is real, with no "National Treasure" moments leading to clichéd millions of dollars to send an acquisitive audience home with a warm fuzzy feeling in their slightly-emptier wallets. It is for friendship or fees that the little group go down to the underworld, and the survival of a few - if they do survive - is also very realistic.Vincent Gallo claims to love America and detest Europeans but this film shows his European roots, in the darkness of an older world of faith and conflict that exists just as much under Los Angeles as under the grim fairy-cake of Moscow. A mixture of languages, Russian and English, is also realistic in its awkwardness. This film deserves to become a bit of a cult. It may seem partly Blair Witch Project, or partly film-noir, but it is all worthy, aided by brave, fine actors. And brave they had to be, for a member of the crew died during filming. If you want Hollywood, watch Hollywood. "Moscow Zero" is a brave movie, whatever the faults (real or imagined) rude armchair critics shout about (who have never done anything in their lives but drink coke, eat popcorn and switch on a DVD that was made by somebody else). One critic must have spent hours writing a review that bewailed his 'lost 82 minutes' of life. Blood, sweat and tears movies are wasted on such shallow egotists.I found Moscow Zero fascinating. Even experiments have a purpose in a brave, real world. This deserves respect. I'm glad I have the DVD: I intend to see this movie, again and again, taking in all the details.Of course, it may not be an entirely happy memory for cast and crew, but it is not unknown for those who make a movie not to realize its significance. I may be a minority but I think this one's going to last.Even if it doesn't, here is one who will take it down from the shelf.

The gates of Hell opened up and spit out this film, then closed again.Watching this movie makes me appreciate other movies I have seen, like all other movies. Nothing makes sense in this movie.It would really take too long to mention all the plot problems. In fact, except as a warning, it really isn't worth wasting some of the nearly infinite space available on the internet writing about this film.From now on, I will check IMDb before watching any film.Hot darn, IMDb is forcing me to write more about this film. I guess I should warn you about Edison Force while I am at it. But if you had to chose between the two, pick Edison Force.

Sit in your basement with the light out for an hour and a half. That's about the same as watching this subterranean search for the Devil's door. An American researcher Owen(Vincent Gallo)travels to Moscow and gathers a rescue team to search for his friend Sergei(Rade Serbedzia), an archaeologist who has disappeared in the catacombs beneath Russia's capital city. They will be shocked to discover subterranean dwellers thriving in the dank and dark complex system of caves and tunnels. The searchers will come upon the gatekeeper of Hell, Andrey(Val Kilmer), and will strike a deal to continue their venture; only to succeed in being scared almost witless when realizing they are among walking dead. Also in the cast: Joaquin de Almedia, Oksana Akinshina, Sage Stallone, Joss Ackland and Julio Perillan.

OK from reading other comments it is apparent that people either love or hate this movie, as always seems to be the way with movies like this. My husband and I rented this movie for two reasons, the description on the box and my love of Moscow (visited his family there last summer). While I was disappointed that they did not show more of the city or have true Russians as actors I found the plot rather interesting.At first you don't truly understand what is going on other than Owen (Vincent Gallo) looking for his friend Sergei in Moscow's underground. Meanwhile you keep going into the underground to seeing Sergei reading inscriptions in old Russian text and being followed by a little girl. Periodically you see shadows, but don't really understand. And at one point the girl tells an older person that the Doorway to Hell has been opened.Meanwhile Owen gets together a team to go down to look for Sergei but is told not to cross the river as there are demons and a doorway to hell there. Eventually you find out Sergei went missing while looking for the "doorway to Hell" But you also begin to realize that the little girl and other children are not what they seem. They are spirits that are trapped in the catacombs who were sent down there in the 20's during the revolution... they were told that above ground there were demons who would kill them. This belief was born out when at some point in their captivity two children left the catacombs to witness the church burning. Thus the nun looking after them labeled that escape route Hell (the doorway to hell). The underground dwellers attempt to seal the "doorway to hell" only to find someone had already done so. The surprising thing is that the spirits of the children perceive the living as demons (they cannot understand the speech) and the living perceive the children as demons (they only see shadows).This movie is not for someone who is looking for a movie that tells them exactly what to think or believe is happening. It is a movie that requires some thought and the viewer must be able to draw some connections between some vague points. This is one of the more enjoyable suspense (can't really call it horror) movies I have seen in a while. It is not your typical formula movie.