White Gold

Almost nothing is good about this movie. Bad plot, bad directing, bad casting, stupid idea for a movie, executed the worst possible way. I was watching it with one thought on my mind throughout the whole movie: "Have I gone crazy, or a movie can actually be THIS bad???"

The screen play writer and the director should be banned from making movies ever again. Period.

There are two good parts to this movie: good Russian stunt work and a great Russian actor ensemble lured in by good (for Russian market) pays. The latter may contradict with my prior statement "bad casting", but there is an explanation. The Russian actors involved in this movie are all great; however the movie is not worth their presence from the artistic point of view.

This movie is an example of the critical situation in Russian movie industry: good directors rarely have access to decent budgets for decent movie productions. Bad wannabe directors and producers with connections are able to secure good financing, they produce bad movies and the big (in Russian terms) budgets bring them a lot of hype. Russia does not make movies these days as good as 15 or more years ago.

Summary: bad movie, 0 out of 10, not worth wasting your time on it, even for fans of some great Russian actors involved.