Guardians (2017)
During the Cold War, an organization called "Patriot" created a super-hero squad, which includes members of multiple soviet republics. For years, the heroes had to hide their identities, but in hard times they must show themselves again.
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Self-important, over-dramatic, uninspired.
A Brilliant Conflict
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.
This movie is just too short. With a running time at about 1 hour 20 min (without the credits), its a very short movie by todays standards. In that time, you get 4 origin stories (5 if you count the villains story), AND the entire movie, with build up, crisis and climax/resolution. There's just not enough time for it all. Everything feels kinda rushed in this movie. Especially lacking were little scenes of interaction between the characters. There were plenty of scenes with many characters, being told stuff by yet another character, but very few scenes with only two characters, actually having a dialogue. It's in the little scenes, you really learn about the protagonists, get to care about them, and those scenes just wasn't present in this movie. The CGIs were mostly good. The man/bear character was bad when doing simple things, like walking, but fine when fighting. The big spectacle scenes were amazing. Considering this movie only cost 5 million dollars, they were mind-blowing. I would very much like an "extended edition" or "directors cut" of this movie, with more dialogue between the characters, adding more depth to them.
The film has the look and feel of a video game. It moves too quickly at times, as if being advanced to the next level of a game. It sometimes feel they neglect showing crucial events. It was pretty much the Russian version of 'Fantastic Four'. This ambitious project has some really excellent effects and great moments, but overall it was just not compelling enough.
Thanks god i did not watch in Cinema, but foolish me that watched this at all, at 30min, i stopped... but that 30min was wasted in vain. Tbh, maybe $5kk is the problem, but this movie had no story, visuals was awful, it was like Ubisoft game downgraded from trailer, or it was just upgraded for trailer, i don't know, but this was awful, they could at least do better CGI if they could not tell a story at all
I don't think any movie has ever elicited more pure childish happiness in me. I watched this movie by myself, and was dying laughing. I screamed out loud several times "HE'S A BEAR!!" followed by "AAAAHHHHHHHH!!!" It's just so much fun. The movies doesn't take it self seriously, and neither should the audience. The end was super anticlimactic, but just because there is a bear with a gattling gun, it deserves 10 stars. Probably the most Russian (and metal) thing I have ever seen.