Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

Bad Acting and worse Bad Screenplay

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

Each character in this movie — down to the smallest one — is an individual rather than a type, prone to spontaneous changes of mood and sometimes amusing outbursts of pettiness or ill humor.

Surprising and a film that has much more than some take it for provided the viewer is able to put it all together. It kept me riveted to the end. Excellent character development and the dialogue made very good sense to me. A superb ending. Not to spoil the film, I shall just mention a few things. The world can be (perhaps is would be better) a crazy place. A madman may be crazy or not crazy, and we may never know for sure, and the same may apply to society. And for those who care about right and wrong and truth versus fiction and whether one can make a difference, life can be very disappointing. Life is easier for those who do not think deeply. Truth can be very elusive. 10 stars.

The first half of the movie seems promising but the last half is just muddled and incoherent. By the end of the movie, I couldn't wait for it to end.It could have been due to the quality of the .srt file I found, but the dialogue seemed really lame and pointless most of the time.The idea of a abandoned dacha village was kind of interesting. The early scenes in the village reminded be of Deliverance, sort of.In the end, character development for most of the characters was non-existent, causing one to care less about the what happened to them. Still, if you have nothing better to do, it is worth watching just for the fact that Babenko is in it.

I would recommend to watch this movie only if you like colours and atmospheric scenes (you will understand what I mean after watching the movie). I would also note that temperature of used colours is somewhat i put +5, the script, actors play, music, idea, etc, does not worth a penny. But anyway Elena is luminously beautiful.A few more words about the idea. First it is not clearly explained within the movie, but is so much obvious that you can not really understand whether it is really the whole point of the movie or not. The movie itself does make you think of something, it doesn't even make you feel something while you watch it. So decide, its your choice.

Experienced and retired journalist is going to write another story about serial killer, but he suddenly runs out of clinic and hides in suburb «dacha»'s - deserted holiday village. She follows him and becomes lost in this kind of ghetto. Hard trip begins and everything becomes surreal. It seems that director and scenarist had so much to say and seen so much before that decided to put in this movie everything they saw - no matter is it needful or not. Dull dialogs and chaotic, muddled direction, but really good idea, good operator work, Efremov as a serial killer is really great, good sound and good attempt in general.