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Simply A Masterpiece

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Awesome Movie

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

This movie was recommended to me by a Bulgarian friend who proudly described it as a world class motion picture. It was supposed to be a comedy, but after watching it I was no longer sure what the genre was. It had only a few funny scenes a person who was not brought up in communist Bulgaria would find funny. I seriously doubt the story would reach an audience outside of Bulgaria. Some countries of the former communist block are its best shot. Choosing a location outside Bulgaria to make the movie more appealing did not help in my case. Neither did adding some native English speaking actors to the cast. Acting of the Bulgarian cast was sub-par. I could not make sense of some of their English sentences. If that were intentional, they were not targeting English speaking audience for sure. The story had the potential for a B-movie, but the execution fell short of that. The Bulgarian film industry has a long way to go before it could be accepted by a wider audience.

I'm not a Bulgarian, but I absolutely loved this movie (well, in the beginning it seemed a bit vague, but soon the jokes began to fall out of the closet), probably because I'm from the same region and sharing similar history, therefore I have recognized many of the cultural clichés used in the movie. I loved the character of the President's wife, as well as the ambassadors. Well casted and brilliantly written. Loved the worried British ornithologist part. These scenes beautifully infiltrated some of the English clichés - as we, Eastern Europeans see them - into the movie. Overall I am really happy that Bulgarians could produce such a movie. Never could have happened in Lithuania - we are too serious. It's very brave and it's a talent to be able to laugh from yourself.

Sorry, but I have to admit that I didn't like this movie at all. Seriously, I am tired to watch one and the same thing for so many times.This is a type of movie you either love or hate. For me it's "hate", because it's yet another parody of what the Bulgarian "reality" is. Producers, writers, directors, wake up finally - we don't need another reminder for this, we watch it every day on the street and during most of the TV shows like "Gospodari na efira", "Pulna ludnitsa", "Shouto na Slavi", "Shouto na kanala" and etc. What we need is something new, something different, something that if I have a friend from abroad I can take him to the cinema and be proud to show him the movie and ask him "Now, go to your country and tell your friends to watch it". This is not the one, I'd say.Several weeks ago a lady holding the movies brochure asked me if I can help her to pick up a movie to watch. Mission London was already available and I told her about it. She said she has already seen it, but with such a disgusted face that I felt embarrassed for even bringing the topic. Now, time for breaking up into pieces: 1. Story - not that bad, it feels like Brazilian soup opera, but however it brings some good mood. I would rate it with 4 out of 10 stars. 2. Acting - I have rarely seen acting worse than that (and I've seen a lot). May be that's because most of the Bulgarian people here are not really acting - singers and politicians should do what they are good at. Overall, I would rate it with 2 out of 10 stars. 3. Camera - losing the focus off the person who speaks is never a good thing. I would rate it with 1 out of 10 stars. 4. Music - it didn't attract any attention, it was not something exceptional, but it was there, which is new for Bulgarian movie. I would rate it with 4 out of 10 stars. 5. Overall - nothing new, nothing different, the same old parody, which I'm sick of. Way below zero stars.I am realizing that only Bulgarians would have some interest to this movie, and I'm even questioning myself why I did write this review in English.However, PEOPLE NOT FROM BULGARIA, DON'T WATCH THIS MOVIE. You Bulgarians, you make the choice on your own. But honestly, I don't think that we as an audience should accept this kind of production, it's way below what we are capable of.

This is the first Bulgarian movie that has done everything professionally - the producing, the marketing and advertising, the vision and sound of the film etc. The commercial success of Mission London is of great importance because if there is profit - more companies will be attracted to invest in Bulgarian cinema. Therefore I really hope the movie gets a good revenue and for now it seems like it would succeed in this mission due to the record breaking audience that it attracted during it's first week. Thanks to a very good advertising campaign and extensive media coverage everybody in Bulgaria is talking about Mission London.So everything involving the organization and the promoting of the movie was executed fantastically. However the movie itself in my opinion fails to live up to the expectations set by the trailers. Some of the acting is poor due to the casting. The screenplay is too chaotic and the directing only amplifies this feeling. In a few words I could describe Mission London as a mediocre attempt at reinterpretating Guy Ritchie's modern British style cinema of the previous decade (Snatch, Lock stock and two smoking barrels) and mixing it with some typical Bulgarian absurdness. Sadly though the result is neither as intense, complicated and funny as Ritchie's nor is it thoroughly exploring the absurd Bulgarian characters and modern politics. It's a movie that tried to imitate and be original at the same time and unfortunately it didn't succeed at both. Another problem is that Guy Ritchie's style has passed it's time and is already too exploited and Mission London doesn't bring anything new to it. On the contrary the director even picked Alan Ford to play a similar character as he did in Snatch.In the end I would like to say that i'm hoping Bulgarian cinema will attract more sponsors and the producers will try to make movies at a bigger scale. Mission London is the first bold attempt and it's a good start. For those who are really interested in modern Bulgarian cinema I really want to recommend them watching "Zift", "The World Is Big and Salvation Lurks around the Corner" or "Eastern Plays"! New films from young directors that really impress and show that there is a lot of talent here that just needs to be given the chance to work. Because even though the three movies I mentioned were done with very low budgets the results are really fascinating!