Guest from the Future

The 2024 adaptation of One Hundred Years Ahead is a pleasant surprise, delivering a large-scale and deeply engaging sci-fi story. Rather than just a retelling of Kir Bulychev's classic novel, this film reimagines the narrative with high-stakes time travel, a battle for the future, and emotionally charged character arcs.

The film's biggest strength is its dynamic, gripping storyline, which evokes the feel of iconic sci-fi classics like Terminator. There's a global conflict, paradoxes that threaten history, and heroes struggling to reshape destiny. The characters are well-developed, especially Alice, whose determination to save her mother and rewrite fate adds emotional weight to the plot.

Visually, the film is impressive-its depiction of the future is detailed, the special effects are top-notch, and the space pirate sequences create a thrilling sense of adventure. The time-travel mechanics are handled effectively, and the shifts between past and future add unpredictability to the story.

If anything, the film could have delved deeper into its secondary characters and the scientific aspects of its world, which were a hallmark of the original novel. However, this doesn't detract from its overall impact.

Ultimately, One Hundred Years Ahead is an outstanding sci-fi film that captivates both longtime fans and new audiences. It's a bold attempt to create a modern Russian sci-fi blockbuster with a powerful message about time, responsibility, and the future.

Decent start but horrible ending.

This movie after 30 minutes dramatically evolves from a decent film to a confusing, random, mess. The film definitely had potential and a good base since it's based off an old classic which from what I've heard was superb. However the film just tried too hard to stand out, the designs were over the top and so was the story, too much happening all at once is never the key to a masterpiece of a movie. This movie also had moments where the main character had to stop the scene and explain why and how something happened, goes to shows how confusing and utterly stupid and ridiculous this film is. My recommendation is just to watch the old movie.

"Guest from the Future":

So, on April 18, on the premiere day, I went to the cinema and watched the new film adaptation of "Guest from the Future". I'll say right away that I haven't watched the original Soviet series, and I haven't read Kir Bulychev's story, so I went to see this film just to relax, and I was expecting this film from the first announcements, and it was really cool!

"One Hundred Years Ahead" is an excellent, RUSSIAN teenage fantasy that will appeal to all ages!

The plot was exciting and interesting. Yes, it may be simple, maybe for someone it will be predictable, and for someone even illogical and cringey, but as a RUSSIAN film it was very excellent, at least for me personally. 142 minutes passed in one breath, unnoticed. The jokes amused me, but for the most part I giggled at the cringe! Yes, it is there, but it didn't really piss me off, the only thing is that the rap scene is absolutely unnecessary for the film, I would have cut it out, that's where I really got mad!

The graphics and visual effects are amazing! The world of the future is very coolly designed, and not only it, you can see where they spent most of the budget!

The cast is wonderful! I especially want to mention Dasha Vereshchagina 😍😍😍. She acts great and is very beautiful, it's nice to look at her! I'm even ready to go to this film again because of her! The chemistry between her and Mark Eidelstein is simply superb! I also want to mention Sasha Petrov, now for me the role of Veselchak U is the best of all the roles in his filmography! Well, Yura Borisov is our Feyd Rauta from the second "Dune", but only if he had superpowers (just kidding).

I liked the soundtrack, of all the songs I want to mention the cover of "Beautiful Far Away", I really liked it!

In the end, "One Hundred Years Ago" is a great family fairy tale for all ages. Children and teenagers will laugh at the references to Minecraft, Fortite, and will also be delighted with all sorts of geeky references, and adults will feel nostalgic and return to the wonderful distant past!

In general, I give it 10 out of 10 and recommend watching it! Go, although no... RUN to the cinema and go to this film with your family / brothers / sisters / significant other / boyfriend or girlfriend! In general, with someone, well, or you can still go alone, because it's worth it!

I agree, the description is not very good. The trailers are most likely the same. I don't know, I haven't looked. From the promotional materials, I was familiar with the poster, which is also... And the legendary kalab in Delicious and .

There was an old TV series called Guest from the Future. Pensioners like it, but in fact the product is uninteresting both in childhood and now.

I just saw the opinions, they say the new film adaptation should have been kind of like that back then!!! And as a result, at the beginning of the film they write that the film is only based on some kind of story and is not obliged to follow the original in terms of plot. Probably shouldn't. I haven't read children's fiction.

What about the new film as a result?!

I rarely come across good films made here. To be fair, I rarely watch them. Well, there's a problem with positioning and promotion in general. It doesn't matter how cool your product is. If no one knows about him, then what?! Nothing.

Well, that's it.

Was the movie interesting? Handsome? Yes and yes. It is impossible to describe it even shorter. For such a genre, these are probably the main characteristics. 2 hours and 20 minutes fly by quickly and it's interesting to watch!

No, just imagine. The film cost 1 billion rubles. It seems like a lot, right? And if you convert it into dollars? Well, let's have a ten point margin of error. We keep in mind that it was taken down no one knows when.

Perhaps reviewing or watching for the first time at home, someone will notice that the graphics in places were not straight WOW!!! Well I do not know. It was not noticeable in the cinema. You can see where they got their inspiration from, but the very fact of being able to recreate this and that is amazing.

The plot is certainly weak. If the technical component is pumped from year to year, then the filling ... Is it that important? Well, specifically here we have a teen movie about a beautiful picture and jokes with a wonderful cast, consisting of both well-established people, both talented people and young actors who are still not playing out in places, but we must give chances to young talents...

The bad plot is shorter, we're moving on.

Well, he said about the actors. He said, but not all of them.

Yura Borisov, unfortunately... I'm not happy. The stone plays with 15 minutes of screen time. Sorry...

But Alexander Petrov plays like... He plays some kind of Pokemon, which is sometimes evil, sometimes kind. He plays well. This role suits him, because before that Sasha Petrov played Sasha Petrov in different costumes, But now he is a Cosmo pirate.

How to sum it all up like this?

A cool movie that didn't pay off and became unprofitable.

Here you are, the one who is reading this, go to the cinema. Take the Pushkin map and go. And call your mom and call your mom if you're alive. I was there at the session, Grandma was alone. So you call your grandmother so that she doesn't sit alone.

This is not doubt movie that has quality (of some sort at least).

It is dynamic enough (even if lots of scenes are elongated with no reason). It has good enough CGI (even if amount of references/borrows is terrible). It has seed of a descent plot (even if it has almost nothing common with original and, for the sake of truth, originals, both film and book, are for 12 yo).

The main problem, as with almost all other modern russian movies, is, sadly, complete absence of originality. Both inner and outer.

Balding producers and elderly championnesses of morality/patriotism are desperate (and hopeless) to be on the "same wave" as next generation. It could be funny if it wasn't so profane, tasteless and mediocre. They are trying to create culture but completely do not understand neither what they are doing nor that culture changed dramatically over 50 years. The saddest thing is, they refuse to learn "new reality", even if they declare this new reality almost every day over the past few years.

As a result, this movie is for no one. Attempts to be modern are clumsy and at least five years late. Plot turns to be empty and leads nowhere. Instead of bright and inspiring future footage is filled by teen's foolish showdowns. Picture is colorful and smooth but lacks meaning.

Great example of what happens when artwork is started by free creative spirit and finished by high-rank soviet censors (yes, they still exist).