Thanks for the memories!

Good concept, poorly executed.

Excellent but underrated film

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

You have to laugh at the absurd marketing of this movie: Christian Slater and Cole Hauser (who both have bit parts, really) are on the DVD cover in military gear and carrying big weapons, while the true star of the film, Sofya Skya, is nowhere to be seen! Skya is an exquisite creature, graceful and beautiful; the action in the film is slow to kick in (no pun intended) and even when it does it's limited, but Skya can - and does - deliver some amazing kicks from every position and angle you can think of. The story is standard and poorly thought out (the ending is particularly bad), but the direction (in which Skya also contributed) is sure-handed. ** out of 4.

The actors in this are all really good actors and they also do a good job in this, the problem is the movie they are doing is not written or directed great.You will recognize a lot of the actors but like a lot of these movies that have big casts with a lot of recognizable names it's like they assume that's enough and that they don't need to worry about the other aspects of the movies like the writing and directing because they already have all the star power they would need to draw in audience and make money.That's really all it comes down to is money, and I'm sure with the star power this movie made money they just didn't worry about it being an Oscar winner or anything :)

Indeed it is clear that it is a low budget movie but the story film is very good, maybe it is a little exaggerated Chapter drama, but the director manages to combine very nice drama leaving room for intrigue with action very subtle. The main role is also played very well and is surprisingly well knows how to fight a simple ballerina. Leaving aside the struggle with learning techniques, I can say that it would be possible for a dancer to learn some fighting techniques soon pretty good considering the complexity of the movements they perform in training - in short worth seeing. I personally I gave it 10 for originality and not only ...

"How did two American's wind up in the Russian oil business?" Maya (Skya) is a Russian ballerina living with her wealthy husband and daughter. Her husband Michael (Slater) is working with a Russian oil firm when suddenly millions of dollars goes missing. The mafia decides to take matters into their own hands and goes after Michael and frames Maya. All she has on her mind is revenge, and the safety of her child. I first off have to say this was nothing like I expected at all. That said this movie has been done a hundred times...most recently called Colombiana. I have no problem with a strong female action hero, I think that is refreshing...but the only reason I think they introduced the ballet aspect is so when she starts to fight it seems legit. Before you question that line...yes, she uses ballet moves to fight. Lots of spinning and high leg kicks to take down her assailants, when that started I started to lose interest and by the end I was just waiting for it to end. This movie could have been so much better but ended up just a little too cheesy and generic for me. Overall, a movie with potential but fell short. I give it a C.