The Hero

It was an eye opening experience that a big budget hollywood action movie like movie can now be made for less, saw it at IFFI 2019 Goa Film Festival as country feature inauguration, country of focus Russia. I loved it at the very curtains down based on the slickness and newness and individuality of the logos and animations before the movie itself, shows that hollywood is not limited to us and uk alone. The father character is very menorable and acting by the lead actors very good, stunts and action as good if not better at times than the regular big budget hollywood movies. It does show that filmmakers around the world can produce better than hollywood in other places now.

As other reviews have said, it's a few familiar plots, clichés, poor CGI and mediocre effects, acting etc thrown together. DOES IT GET MIXED UP? Yes, and you get a muddy mash of regurgitated material.

As usual with such machinations, the worst thing is the script, or lack thereof.

Hundred more words required, but not much to say. Yes, it is that bad. No, you don't need to check for yourself.

This movie seems to need several different titles so potential viewers are not warned off before watching it. I was confronted with it where it was wearing the the title "Rodin".

I liked his sculptures better.

I couldn't help but think that this film is an attempt to cram as many cringey cliches (which even Hollywood has long since abandoned) into one production as possible. The movie just feels like a parody, where everything is said and done just for the sake of recreating what you once saw in another, better film.

The editing is outright nauseating - just pay attention to the amount of cuts in any scene.

While the CGI is terrible (just look at the skydiving scene with the pasted-in faces), thankfully there's not too much of it.

The music is nice at times, but leaves you absolutely exhausted as it NEVER stops. Not for one solid minute. One of the numerous strange choices in this film.

This movie's biggest problem is probably its writing. You keep asking yourself "Who is this?" There are like 5 attractive young women with a ponytail who look identical in this film.

Everything is all over the place.

The scenic photography is the best thing about this...but you can get good photography, sweeping vistas, charming European cities in many films. But, yeah, the DP did a good job. The plot was very confusing. If the baddies wanted to get info from the hero, why were they also trying to kill him all the time? It still wasn't clear who the all the bad guys were and how they were connected, and if the payoff was 100 million Euro--that's about 10% of Selena Gomez' wealth...all that for 100 million? Of course a major problem is that the film was spoken in Russian and dubbed in English. Maybe if I lived in Moscow, I'd rate this higher. Maybe. My TV gave me the subtitles along with the dubbing, but the dubbing was very awkward and the subtitles were often awkwaard. Worse, the dubbed speakers were expressionless in the worst ways. It sounded like some folks off the street just reading the lines. As a result, it is difficult to gauge the quality of the acting, since the dubbing was as bad as Kung Fu movies from the 1970's. It was almost painful to watch, except for the really nice scenery.

The growth of a Russian agent, after experiencing the betrayal of his lover and the death of his father, gradually matures and grows into a real agent. The plot is full of twists and turns, though the ending is a bit hasty. I feel that the last advantage of the male leader is the male master aura. Remembering the slogan is not because of his strong memory, but because of the founder of the secret service organization. The father of the male Lord has made the password into a children's song, so that the children can memorize it repeatedly. As a father and son with a special identity, the implication and depth of father's love are moving.