When I first saw this movie, I actually liked it. Many years later, I decided to watch it again. Since I had forgotten all the details, it was like now watching it for the first time. Maybe I changed as a person and my taste improved, because this time I really didn't like this movie.
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It became visible to me, how amateurish it feels: the shaky camera, poor lighting, over the top acting, etc. Some actors clearly don't know what to do, so it's obvious they are somehow improvising. Some shots are too long, like at the end, when Ivan is running on the street in the night. He looks back and forth, then down, then up, then back and forth and down and up again, because what else could he do? In one scene, the hit-man even looks into the camera by mistake. He clearly wasn't sure he was in the picture. Many scenes are completely obsolete and add nothing to the story, like the parallel story with the dumb rich girl on the periphery and in the bars, having orgiastic sex, clearly made to satisfy the cheap taste for sex scenes of many viewers and to stretch out the story to a full length film.
Watchable, but nothing special.
*** Only minor spoilers ***
It became visible to me, how amateurish it feels: the shaky camera, poor lighting, over the top acting, etc. Some actors clearly don't know what to do, so it's obvious they are somehow improvising. Some shots are too long, like at the end, when Ivan is running on the street in the night. He looks back and forth, then down, then up, then back and forth and down and up again, because what else could he do? In one scene, the hit-man even looks into the camera by mistake. He clearly wasn't sure he was in the picture. Many scenes are completely obsolete and add nothing to the story, like the parallel story with the dumb rich girl on the periphery and in the bars, having orgiastic sex, clearly made to satisfy the cheap taste for sex scenes of many viewers and to stretch out the story to a full length film.
Watchable, but nothing special.