Description
The early Middle Ages. A time of heavy swords and dark blood law. The ruling clan is in discord. The guilt for the accidental death of the brother has fallen on the Grand Duke. According to the law, revenge must be taken by the younger brother, a bastard. For the refusal to kill, he has to pay with eve- rything he had, because “for peace you need more swords than for a war”...
In the end, he wins at the expense of Constantinople and what did this "genius" come up with, go to war with the same Constantinople, well, isn't he strange? It's just ridiculous and in the end he still understands that he was deceived, only when they say it to him head-on, in short, the historical character looks like a schoolboy who is shaken from religion to religion and he's kind of out of business, I didn't kill my brother, I'm fighting a war holding the heir hostage in a kind way" in thought and in general, I am a SAINT, glory to Satan.
I also smiled at the death of Fyodor (Epifantsev) and his son or whom, I did not understand, the film is generally clumsy in this regard, you do not understand who has to be there, in short, this genius of Christianity climbs up to the pagans with a fight and then dies managing to cross himself, and it was shot so strained from where he learned about Christianity, why he attacked the pagans, this will not be explained. And also think for yourself why the brothers are quarreling, why is there a conflict of religions, why does Vladimir need two wives and why are there battle scenes, if you rewind them, nothing will change, the plot load is zero and it was also shot poorly, the production in the film is not in any way, there is no dynamics, it does not look realistic and there is no enthusiasm as in the Vikings TV series and the desire to show something outstanding.
The actors saw what they seemed to be shooting in, and decided not to try at all, Alexander Ustyugov is the only one who causes sympathy, dies in a matter of minutes of timing, and all the most interesting things happen in 30 minutes at the beginning, then the silence and lack of character development and drama, dumped everything they know from the school curriculum at the beginning and then began to do fan fiction.
Alexandra Bortich is naked and for many it's probably not a plus either hahahaha. And there will be no advantages, Andrei Kravchuk, I hope, will gain the status of the worst director in the world in 10 more years, otherwise Uwe Boll at least cakes, but this one really considers himself a genius and gives us dangerous content. Also, as a fan of historical films, I consider him doubly evil. And as always, pagans are dirty and bad, and Christians are pure and noble, but this will not happen in the film, they just feed you this in the end and you have to believe it, and religion was also planted on people by mutual consent, yeah, yeah, it was just like that, we believe.
Visual: 2/15
Atmosphere: 3/15
Soundtrack: 5/10
Main characters: 4/20
Minor characters: 4/10
Plot: 3/30
Total Score: 21 (Red Zone).