Best movie of this year hands down!

Redundant and unnecessary.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Everything than can go wrong in a human's life happens in this movie. To the point it starts to feel a bit stupid. Also some scenes drags out too much to the point you ask if it was necessary to have them there. Also some very weird character choices that makes you wonder. But it had very good acting and interesting story and characters. So I would recommend watching it.

Brilliant film that discretely depicts the hypocrisy and nonsense of the church and faith, corruption and power inequality. The ones in power always win in the courts. This film is one of the few films I've watched lately that made me feel amazed by it's end.

A movie can be great for several reasons:an original or creative ideaa good direction that will highlight a beautiful story or an important theme to think oncan cause strong emotions, either for laughs or tearsspectacular special effects or majestic photographyan exciting soundtrack or music selectionpowerful acting or intelligent dialoguesThis film has nothing of the above:is the same old story about a private citizen overwhelmed by the corruption of the politicians and the powerfulThe direction is lazy and without inspiration, anonymousthe strongest emotion I felt was boredom, endless boredomthe special effects did not serve and there are none, though photography is not badthe soundtrack does not exist except for 1 minuteacting is undoubtedly realistic but engagement is the same as listening to the news on TV and dialogues are at the most trivialA movie devoid of any of the above qualities, what score should it have?I gave my answer.

It is said that the horror movie genre was invented in the US during the Great Depression. That people needed something scary to get distracted from their own harsh realities, even if just for an hour or two, and maybe even get the feeling that their lives aren't that bad after all.Andrey Zvyagintsev reinvented the concept of horror movies. He basically replaced the screen with a glass wall, so that the audience could see... their own lives, devoid of any fake prettification. And, in fact, his films are way scarier than any, even the most brutal and gory horror film Hollywood could come up with.You probably ought to live here to be able to see it like that though. Not just visit, but actually be an integral part of this Russia. Russia without god, without truth and without hope. Russia that holds you from the day you were born and suffocates you throughout your life. Russia that only a marginal number of its citizens gets to escape. And this Russia is real, no matter how much the majority of my compatriots try to believe otherwise.But even if you are lucky enough to be living in a more hope-filled place, watching Leviathan could still be of some use. So that you could see what we are as a country and as a nation. Beautiful as the hills and mountains and bays of our Far East, cold as a breeze over the wasteland, and utterly lost in space and time like that ever-leaden sea. You could see people, living their lives one day at a time and having no hope neither for tomorrow nor for the rest of the time ahead, drowning their angers and sorrows and basically a total absence of anything really bright in alcoholic drowsiness and silent self-loathing that follows. People who once were born beautiful, just like the rest of the humankind, but whose sparks had long been put out and smothered by not even a darkness but a neverending fog of life with no meaning or goal. That's the real fifty shades of grey, people, and this time there's nothing sexy or fun about it.Of course, it's not always horrendous out here, otherwise all of us would have slit our wrists centuries ago. The sun still shines from time to time, the nature is still mostly uncorrupted and instilling liveliness, people still manage to love each other, even when the life is hard. But, come think of it, even in the brightest and the most poverty-protected places of this country you still could feel living under a huge dome. Because the system, one that's been around long before Putin came to power and stemming from the very essence of our people, makes sure that you're never fully in charge of your life. Small or big, we are still puppets in someone else's hands. The only difference is that some have absolute pigs as their masters, never shy to show around who's the boss, and some are given a dose of illusion that they actually have freedom here and that god is their only judge. But even if god ever existed, he's long forsaken this desolate place, and all the freedom left is still bound by the invisible glass walls, walls one of which Andrey Zvyagintsev has used so artfully.