Predskazaniye

This is a very unsatisfying and heterogeneous movie,a hotchpotch;its main deficiency is the script,the story,which is weak,stupid,cheap,and of too many sorts:it starts as a fantastic movie,it goes on as a crime movie,then as a love story,then as cheap melodrama.The director did not know what he wanted with his paranoiac movie (the lead is tracked by communists,Nazis,Mafiosi).Nonetheless,we get some quality acting (some good performances are the only thing that holds),and the Mrs. Jacob nude scene.

The movie begins rather well (the villainous virologist,etc.),then it flops.It has too many defects.The director bets on schmaltz.

The messy script finally ruins the film.The lack of coherence does the same.

The older "Oleg" ( Basilashvili) was a miscast.How would a woman like Mrs. Jacob fall in love with this tedious,insipid,unfit old-timer who looks like an old wife?