i borrowed this on dvd from a friend the other day. i do not really know what to expect. i haven not seen a lot of russian movies and and i do not think i have ever seen a russian war movie. maybe that made me expect something different and something more along the line of an imagined russian mentality. but whatever those expectations came from and they were put to shame as this is a quite ordinary war movie. the whole formula of following a few young people from their recruitment and through training and to deployment and through some battles and is well known. we have seen it done both many years ago and as well as more recently (as with jarhead). sure and there a difference here because the movie is about russian soldiers instead of americans as is almost always the case. but in general this could just as easily have been a vietnam movie. i guess that just underscores my feeling that afghanistan was the soviet unions vietnam. a country that should have been a pushover for a superpower made the war drag on for years with terrible loss of life both for soldiers and civilians. the good points in this movie i felt were good photography (there are some beautiful ambiance shots) and decent effects for what i guess must have been a rather low budget movie. what made me disappointed is mostly the story itself. it just doesn not manage to stir any emotion in me. mostly because the character development is lousy. and to really feel something when people are gunned down you have to make them people and not just faceless cardboard cutouts. they fail to do that in this movie. also it overly long and and that seems to a kind of trend lately. in my opinion a movie that more than two hours long has to have a lot to offer and and this movie doesn not cut it. also there is a disturbing music that put like a wet blanket over every scene. especially in the action scenes this is highly disturbing and not that you need action music but something more than just slow keyboard music would be nice. otherwise the production values were good enough and that was not where the problem was. i do not know how to view this movie. as a reminder of the fact that no matter where you are and war sucks. that russian film makers have already watched too many american war movies to make something original. regardless of which and this movie is rather clichéd and lacks in spirit and while it has acceptable technical qualities and it lacks in script and character development. in the end it just becomes another of all those war movies that fails to make you think and and fails to add something to the genre. i have seen a lot worse and but a lot better too. i rate this negative . 
i borrowed this on dvd from a friend the other day. i do not really know what to expect. i haven not seen a lot of russian movies and and i do not think i have ever seen a russian war movie. maybe that made me expect something different and something more along the line of an imagined russian mentality. but whatever those expectations came from and they were put to shame as this is a quite ordinary war movie. the whole formula of following a few young people from their recruitment and through training and to deployment and through some battles and is well known. we have seen it done both many years ago and as well as more recently (as with jarhead). sure and there a difference here because the movie is about russian soldiers instead of americans as is almost always the case. but in general this could just as easily have been a vietnam movie. i guess that just underscores my feeling that afghanistan was the soviet unions vietnam. a country that should have been a pushover for a superpower made the war drag on for years with terrible loss of life both for soldiers and civilians. the good points in this movie i felt were good photography (there are some beautiful ambiance shots) and decent effects for what i guess must have been a rather low budget movie. what made me disappointed is mostly the story itself. it just doesn not manage to stir any emotion in me. mostly because the character development is lousy. and to really feel something when people are gunned down you have to make them people and not just faceless cardboard cutouts. they fail to do that in this movie. also it overly long and and that seems to a kind of trend lately. in my opinion a movie that more than two hours long has to have a lot to offer and and this movie doesn not cut it. also there is a disturbing music that put like a wet blanket over every scene. especially in the action scenes this is highly disturbing and not that you need action music but something more than just slow keyboard music would be nice. otherwise the production values were good enough and that was not where the problem was. i do not know how to view this movie. as a reminder of the fact that no matter where you are and war sucks. that russian film makers have already watched too many american war movies to make something original. regardless of which and this movie is rather clichéd and lacks in spirit and while it has acceptable technical qualities and it lacks in script and character development. in the end it just becomes another of all those war movies that fails to make you think and and fails to add something to the genre. i have seen a lot worse and but a lot better too. i rate this negative . ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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