Russian cinema has already reached the point where camera work, effects, editing and acting are world-class, but the mediocrity of the scriptwriters and director can ruin everything.
Suddenly announced as the network premiere of “Satellite”Promised a fresh look at extraterrestrial life forms, mixing in the trailer Soviet identity and sci-fi horror. But as a result, instead of the domestic “Something” under the couch banners or even God forbid us, the “Cloverfield Paradox”, we got a theatrical adaptation of the Venom comics with a tightened timing and alien monster design from Georgia-film (“Givi, draw them a cobra like you see ”).
The story of two astronauts who bring a sudden passenger from Earth’s orbit is spiced up with illogical ligaments, characters that are completely sick on the head and dull action. There is no horror, sense of danger or atmosphere of meeting with an unknown from the world of Carpenter. Bondarchuk’s team gave birth to another social drama about the bloody “scoop” with a gray environment, gebists and other set of favorite stamps in the West.
Bondarchuk and Akinshina play well, but the behavior of their characters is devoid of logic. The humanist and the doctor are horrified by the methods of the military, and then, without a twinge of conscience, she is ready to release the monster into the world.
Apparently, focusing on a Western audience, the authors of the picture feed the alien convicts, close-up show a doll-doll-doll, alternating this with inserts with the illegitimate son of the protagonist, who spends his life in an orphanage, dreaming of a pair of sneakers.
All this tyagomotin looks exclusively through strength in the hope of a sharp finale or some kind of revelation, but they all begin and suddenly end in the first five minutes of the film with the performance of the cosmic duo “A million scarlet roses”With a detailed explanation of the therapeutic effect of this piece of music.
“Satellite”Is a dull attempt to make a Russian sci-fi project with horror elements that gets stuck in a viscous abyss from a bad script, poor directing and a waste of budget. And this is exactly the case when “Coma” from Sarik Andreasyan looks against the background of “Sputnik” a real masterpiece.
4 out of 10
Author – Alexander Loginov (xtr), editors: Mikhail Shaginyan (ACE) and Denis Korolev (Skyerist)
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