The Last Ronin

I hope that the film will find its audience.
I've been waiting for him for a year, because I read Shishkin's TV channel (I recommend it to everyone) and I really like him.
I understood what I was doing and that I wasn't very interested in it myself and might just not like it, but I was pleased with the film: the shooting style was amazing, the colors and soundtracks were perfectly matched, the plot was not bad (although I hadn't watched many movies of this genre, so it might be a cliche for someone), Kolokolnikov and Vorobyov are very they look good.
but... how badly Diana Yenakayeva plays here (as in Crime and Punishment and, if I remember correctly, in Inside the Killer, it's no better either).

Everything is great except for the girl , it 's not the first time this actress has been upset , there are problems with diction, she reads the text as if on a piece of paper , unnaturally .in short , she was the only one annoying the whole movie . my rating is 5/5, it turned out atmospheric. Recommend 👍

The director and screenwriter of the film, Max Shishkin, had previously made only a couple of short films, but someone decided to allocate money for him for a full meter. Yes, we have a post-apocalypse, half of which is borrowed from similar films, and half of which looks very boring and mediocre. It would seem that there is everything for success - combat scenes, atmosphere, Yuri Kolokolnikov and Daniil Vorobyov, but Diana Yenakayeva plays just terribly, and Zhiznevsky appears for a very short period to somehow enliven the film. Alas, Kolokolnikov and Vorobyov did not pull it out, although they got the images, but in general it is boring, tedious and the world is not alive. It's a good attempt, as they say, but no. Hollywood is full of films about the post-apocalypse, and some of them are quite good, but here they removed various cliches, and added a complete game of themselves. There's revenge that's good, revenge that's bad, then I'll kill them, then don't. What a rarity paragraph cartridges are, then machine-gun fire is our everything! In general, the film was not a success, alas. And the idea wasn't bad, but Shishkin clearly didn't have enough experience, although some of the fight scenes were successful, but I don't think that's the director's merit. You can watch it, but most of these two hours will be boring, so decide for yourself.

Well, such a movie, for the avid fans of the director, who clearly saw enough of the series "In the desert of death." Only camerawork can be noted. Everything else is in the furnace: there is no plot, everything is cardboard, the motivation of the main character is not revealed, the soundtrack is from the Soviet band Zodiac. Separately, I would like to walk through the heroine girl. Is she someone's daughter? Some kind of oligarch? Hide it somewhere and don't take it off anywhere else, it's a horror, let it continue with some kind of model or a girl in a call center or an operator in a bank.

I came to the movie thinking it was shit. Laughing at stupidity for nothing.
I was so surprised!!!
I give 4.5 out of 5. Of the main disadvantages, only the play of individual actors seemed to be rattling on paper. Otherwise, there are only advantages👍

It's a controversial picture, hanging out more in the middle of the middle. yes, the visual is pleasant, everyone feels inspired - the scene with mushroom fanatics, according to the production, gives off vibes of some kind of Resident Evil game in the area of the 5th part, and fans of B movies from the 80s will find similarities themselves. but the script and the bizarro ending are still too sagging and time-consuming to turn a blind eye to their shortcomings. I didn't like the girl's acting style, and every line she made sounded foreign and out of place, but that's just my feeling. I rightly went to the film with zero expectations, and even skepticism, and this is a very appropriate mood. And I don't regret going on a camping trip - it's better than another walk-through adaptation of fairy tales for children with people's money.

Spanish Shame...

this is a very strange and peculiar experience. as we wrote above, this is definitely designed for a big fan.
Yes, it looks stylish. The fights, the blood, the visuals are done pretty well.

the plot itself and the dialogues are lame, which are sometimes too overloaded with unnecessary information.

It's not a bad attempt to make some kind of fiction. at least it was really stylish.

I've been subscribed to Max Shishkin for a long time, and knowing about his tastes, I imagined that he could shoot and didn't have much hope, but God, what a bad movie it is in absolutely all aspects.…
The plot is banal
The dialogues were written by a backward neural network, and were voiced by a Google translator.
The characters are cardboard, uninteresting, and empty
Camerawork for 3 and then all the moves are beaten
The music is not in the subject at all
A cliche on the cliche itself
The actors either overplay it or don't finish it, and looking at the bald Kolokolnikov, who cosplays Alexander Nevsky with his serious face all the way through the movie, is just a laugh on a stick.
A solid 2/5, and then only because I knew the director and believed that he could

It's like a VHS movie, and that's a good thing. Sometimes I miss such films. The choreography of the action is good. An action scene with a top view from above. The soundtrack is gorgeous. I love these simple stories, and I get a kick out of them. Minus one. An actress on a girl. She ruins everything. Considering that she is the second central character, this is a significant disadvantage. The total is good, but with a minus of 7 and 10

I would like an alternative version of the ending, where Yuri Kolokolnikov's character blows off the head of this gifted girl with a katana, and she falls to the floor with a sound like a wooden block. I fucking ruined the whole movie.
And the film, as written above, is for connoisseurs of old-school vhs. There's a turbopack for you, and Mandy, and Mad Max, and Eli's book, and even suddenly a Black Mirror! And many many more things.
The soundtrack and the picture are my homage, new retro wave.
Yes, the script really lacked the background of both Ronin himself and the rest of the characters.
Major Grom was too few. The girl's terrible acting is too much. And it was once said that Bella from Twilight plays badly.
Yes, they also made the local king an unnecessarily stupid buffoon, Vorobyov overdid it for me. But who knows, maybe the director insisted to him behind the scenes: "We need more idiocy, Daniel, the king must be finished! Just a complete jerk!
And the director shouted at the girl, don't you dare blink! Don't try to show your emotions here! Read the text exactly according to the prompter!
Or maybe the girl is autistic? That would explain a lot ...
And yet, despite the many shortcomings of the film, I would like to say a big thank you to the author Max Shishkin for such an honest and courageous attempt in this genre. And wish you good luck in new projects and take into account all the shortcomings in the old ones.
+ Frame, action scenes, genre, soundtrack
- Acting, script, budget
I'd say it's an honest 3/5.

Well, they can't, even when they want to. I killed two days for this (I fell asleep on the first day), I thought maybe somehow in the end, but no. Cartridges, Karl cartridges.
For the locations, plus, the idea is not new, but I like it. The performance is zero, the game of Yenakayeva is zero, only Kolokolnikov distinguished himself, and it's doubtful, but let's say Vorobyov, but in my opinion this is his usual role. It's kind of clumsy, the feeling was filmed on the principle of "and so it will do."
Fuck, it's a shame, I was expecting something like this, the trailer was good, but in fact it was just annoying. Yes, I'd rather look at an Inhabited island again than this... 2 out of 5, because the locations are beautiful.
And yes, for those who didn't get Furiosa there, sign up and enjoy. Have a nice

I suddenly remembered the series In the desert of death. https://myshows.me/view/44081 / , a DIY film on this topic, with mediocre acting.

The film is generally ambiguous. Kolokolnikov is, as always, a delight. The girl is GG, this is 3.14 years old. Reading text from a teleprompter is a masterpiece of acting. In general, the costumes, the story, the characters are normal and awesome. But something is missing. If it wasn't for Yuri, I wouldn't have looked. Well, for good, I wouldn't have lost much.

I was ashamed in front of my wife that I was just watching it in the same room with her.

The clothes are too clean.
There's too much unnecessary chatter. Dialogues are generally some kind of mediocrity, almost everyone reads from a piece of paper.
As always, something is missing.. some kind of depth and drama.
Once again, the narrative is either too fast or not filled with enough action.

For fans of fantasy, it's not bad at all, it's not completely stupid and banal, it's just a fairy tale.. You can watch it, it doesn't carry any semantic load...

It's a wild mess.

The most important thought that came to me after watching this is what exactly does this movie want to be? On the one hand, we are given a simple and understandable story. Expositions of the work of this world are piled up to give it truthfulness and depth. They set a serious tone... Well, as much as possible in this costume production. And then the king appears and tries to give out Shakespearean dialogue mixed with farce. Firstly, it was very long-winded, and secondly, this clowning knocked me out of the dive completely. In their desolate wastelands, we descended into a stuffy bunker and, forgive the tautology, suffocated. The chosen ending doesn't suit this movie at all. Such long dialogues of the king and two minutes for the girl at the end. Strange timing distribution.
Secondly, it smells very much of secondhandness. You can find many works of art from which different elements were pulled. A six-stringed samurai, Eli's book takes a general outline. Fallout New Vegas, Mad Max, is visible in the desert. The division into ideological factions and the currency in the form of cartridges is reminiscent of Metro 2033. The dog robots came straight from the Metallist series of the Black Mirror. Oddly enough, the stylish cannon reminded Devil May Edge. The original idea can be traced only in the clans.
I will say that I like the first hour of the film, and even if it led to a banal revenge or forgiveness at the end, it would be much more interesting to watch these intense dialogues in French. There wasn't enough of a simple but awesome ending, as it was in last of the ace. Well, in fact, no one has gone through the normal character arc here.
On the plus side, I can praise the camerawork and the staging of the combat scenes, and the picture can sometimes be very atmospheric, such as in the cannibal tribe. Cinema deserves its 5-6. Not outright garbage, but it could have been better
. PS. Add another stylish motorcycle here and it would have turned out in the desert of death in the Russian manner

I danced for the first 40 minutes, but as soon as the characters open their mouths, everything is hana.

The person who wrote the dialogues has no sense of language at all: they don't speak Russian like that, the speech is similar to the work of Google Translate, which was fed the text in English. This disease usually affects people who have watched a lot of foreign videos with poor amateur translations (see Transverse and the like). And it would be fine if everything was limited to a short exchange of remarks, it could be attributed to a stylistic decision, but sometimes the characters don't shut up for five minutes. Show, don't tell is the basic principle of cinema, but the director, of course, knows better.

Vorobyov's character is a typical antagonist from Farkray, Troy Baker on minimals. It is customary to sympathetically call this acting style the theater kid. If he had three times less screen time, it could have been bearable.

The main character is without comment, beyond good and evil.

In order for the fantasy world not to look like a collection of references to your favorite movies and games, it must be TACTILE. The characters must constantly interact with him, touch, press, twist all sorts of handles and mechanisms. For most of the movie, the characters just walk through the desert. OK, well, then why go to Kazakhstan for the sake of filming, if you could shoot everything on the green? I am prescribing the films Prospect (2018) and Brazil (1985) by Terry Guillam intravenously to the director to develop this very cinematic tactility.

Staging fights in which opponents wait for the hero to get rid of the previous one - maybe that's enough? Fighting is not a filler. Daredevil, who comes out of every fight bruised and with his kidneys knocked off, proved 10 years ago that action scenes are not a reason for a stunt director to show off once again, but a test for the character.

Total: unjustifiably inflated timekeeping, dialog graphomania, references, style over substance and other sins of aspiring directors. I would like to say that there is a lot of talent hidden somewhere out there, but this is more of a movie game than a movie.

Yes, I thought that the film would not be very good, but for some reason it came to me.
It seems that the plot may be intertwined with some movie somewhere (probably Highlander)

In short, a podobyem.
The film was made after someone had a brilliant idea: fighting in the post-fight! What do we have about post-orders? So, there are few weapons, all kinds of clans, anarchy, wild people... Everything is clear. Fights. Well, a little bit of shooting, all fucking with swords. Wow... Let's do it. What do you mean, which scenario? Fuck the movie script? And if there is no script, will it run for 10 minutes? Okay... What about the others? Yeah, yeah, yeah... clear. In short, the whole mysterious tough guy, at the sight of whom everyone immediately says: "wow, what a mysterious tough guy" leads a strange girl somewhere to a mysterious place, which everyone immediately says — ooo.... It's a mysterious place. That's it, we're shooting it fast.

And as a result: here are about 10 minutes of cool battle scenes with blood and fights. The rest of the time is dialogue. Dialogues... Oh, these dialogues... Apparently the apocalypse was some kind of theatrical. Because all the survivors don't speak like ordinary people. They speak pathetically, over the top, with complex dialogues and words like "in vain" and "I'm not afraid." There are about 40 more minutes of such dialogues. Especially at the end, when we have a one-actor theater and Vorobyov is talking.... and talking... And he says... And he's talking... and then he talks a little more... Then there was a fight. Then he talks some more... And a little more. As you have already understood, everyone here is very fond of talking. And it makes me very sad.

But it wasn't a bad idea. Trying to spice up this world with small details like couriers or robots is fun. The fights aren't bad. Weapon worship is also fun. But that's it.

Yes, I remember a lot of similar things from the post-apocalypse of the late eighties and early nineties. There are many similarities. It's not as terrible as they wrote in the comments on social networks and movie sites, but it's also far from good. Like most of the above, I give a plus to the good setting of the world, Kolokolnikov, and some action scenes (which are well staged but often poorly shot!). And minus Maria, who is absolutely infuriating (terribly), the dialogues and the script, which is poorly developed in general. Plot-wise, there is often a wtf emotion or just incomprehensible moments. 3/5.

It's not a bad idea, but there's a noticeable lack of experience and screenwriting and directing skills.