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No More Lights in the Sky is a mockumentary thriller written and directed by Danny Cotton which focuses on a group of talking heads talking about the future and the resistance against the corrupt political party. This is a very interesting concept however the execution was not done with justice. It's such a shame with lack of technical knowledge that this film looks how it is: shoddy, amateur and low quality and not in a good way. The lead actor or character seems to be boring in quite a lot of ways and no one is captivating enough to keep us engaged in the story. The last 20 minutes is abysmal.

It's a very slow film, completely lacking in a clear structure, and is made even harder to watch by how hideous it looks. It's not that director Steven Smith or his cameraman have no ability to frame a shot. Quite often you can see what they're going for and think "that could look good if they had some equipment" but unfortunately, by shooting the whole thing on a potato it looks like it's being beamed in from a pirate TV station in Antarctica.

What's saddest about this is that I'm a man of limited requirements here. I just want to see some men in football shirts duffing up some other men with comedy Russian accents. Ideally outside a football ground. I'm not asking for an Oscar winning epic. It's a shame that, with evident creative freedom to do whatever they wanted, the makers of Red Army Hooligans have made such a strange, slow mess of a film that cheats its audience out of the very simple thing they want to see.