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Dear god what happened here? i read up about it how 4000 people helped fund the film and all the different locations the story sounded interesting the actors looks plausible a done deal welcome to Hollywood..Err not quite! i sat down with my wife and as we don't watch that many films now a days as we watched them all years ago i thought this sounds a decent film, so on it came with an Italian guy speaking in Italian good job my wife is Spanish as she translated it all, what he was saying sounded interesting and after what seemed like a year before he stopped talking and the film started (He talked way too long), we watched & we watched & we watched there was one thing missing any signs of movement? it was just actors talking and talking and not an ounce of action? i mean i didn't expect a Die Hard film as it was never going to be one but when actors are basically just talking and talking and there is nothing interesting happening..THEN it happened a shot in the woods where a return module/rocket with one man inside had just landed it was red hot it had just entered the earths atmosphere so you couldn't go near it until it cools down fire all around it BUT WAIT! an actor just opens the side hatch with his bare hand? Maybe he was from another film like Iron Man and he has super strengths & cant feel any pain? then there is the point they are all supposed to be Russian and yet are clearly English! it lost a lot of interest from me when they made this decision and they should of had Russian actors either dubbed over or subs it just wasn't original for me! i wanted it to be so much more i was screaming at my TV "Come on guys don't let me down" but they did the film failed in a way i suppose "Shot down in flames" comes to mind! & this is a real shame! simple "Attention to details" would of made this film so much more realistic? the music was lovely in the films and the locations too but for me although the actors where really good the mistakes made it too Amateur so i would only give it a 3/10

I was thrilled to see this movie, which I finally did. The trailer was promising, as was the name, that includes material which could be subject of several feature films. Sadly, I was disappointed.

First, if you make a movie and name it Cosmonaut, one would expect it to be exactly about that. I was expecting to see the heroes of Gagarin, Korolev, Leonov, Kamarov and many others who are only about once mentioned by name and never make an appearance(Gagarin, Kamarov and Korolev, were of course all dead by the time period (wrongly?) chosen). And the beginning was quite promising, starting with the truly amazing recordings two Italian brothers claimed to have made, of a faint heartbeat moving away from earth orbit. The (conspiracy?) theory of lost cosmonauts is an amazing subject, but don't expect much more of it in this movie. The storyline quickly goes into a fantasy world where a stick in the eye MFM relationship is more pronounced than the space flight aspect. I really cannot help but wondering why not choose these characters to be hot blooded college students, with all the fantasy that goes into it.

The real story of the cosmonauts is far more interesting, passionate, compelling and thrilling. I was expecting to see the pressures put upon them by a repressive regime, their non-weavering desire to succeed against all odds and incredible visions of space exploration. It's a remarkable human story-just not the subject of this movie. Don't expect to see the self-defense of a group of Soyuz cosmonauts against hungry wolves-a real story where they were not extracted from their landing area for a few days.

There is nothing wrong with making a fantasy sci-fi. And this movie could have been exactly that. But instead, using and if I may put it bluntly, hijacking the name 'cosmonaut', or the underlying story, it makes an unfair claim.

The movie does include some nice food for thought, one can see how Yulia, making sex with Andrei, and being with Andrei, just doesn't love Andrei. It's a point of the brutal selectiveness of love. And it is a story that could have been told just as well as going on elsewhere. It's a pity because the uniforms and old equipment look so cool, convincing and interesting. This could have been used to create a real space movie that could easily rival Apollo 13.

A movie that is really about the cosmonauts, is yet to be made.

WTF is going with this sh*ty film? I mean rly what is going on. Are they been on a high dose of DMT or something similar, that they think they doing something important. And about budget. Imagine you have two friend and one of them is study special effect, and one of them is women, no more no less. And you got a new camera for your birthday from your mommy.. And One day you are smoking DMT and say hey lets make some movie right.. Ohh hey lets do it.. In the mater of fact this story is much more deeper than this "movie". More like New age kids with money. And that spend 860.000 euros.. OMG yeah right. And then one of the producer buy ferrary and vila and say, yeah we are so in the movie quality. And the worst of all, i love this theme of the movie- after riding preview. And i done research on this fields.. This is Embarrassing for all ppl on the earth. WORST movie ever on the planet earth to date..!!

I viewed this film with an open mind. It was funded by the world, and was free to download on Frostwire P2P sharing program.

The beginning of the film starts consisted of great film quality, excellent special effects, a really awesome score. The special effects would rate up there with any Hollywood production as far as I'm concerned. The score of the film is very beautiful and very well conducted.

This films delves into an age where the Space Race was the game. Apparently the United States won that race, but The Cosmonaut is an interesting story not only is it a film about a failed mission to the moon, but it is also about a love story between Stas(Leon Ockenden),Andei(Max Wrottesley) and Yulia(Katrine De Candole). The two friends make Andrei and Stas make a bet to make there feelings about Yulia mutual, in other words they have the same feelings for one woman. Andrei eventually gets news that they are going to the moon from his Commander of the Russian space program. (This is known eventually over time while watching the film) Andrei picks his best friend Stas to be on the mission and take the role of the first Russian on the moon. Things don't pan out well for the young Russian Cosmonaut, and we are left with him walking through an emotional field of familiar sites and sounds but not quite as he remembered things.

While these scenes are being raced across our television screens and into our senses, we see Yulia not being able to deal with the situation at hand and she starts to lose the will to live.

This film is directed in a very abstract way that has a very basic storyline, but is magically brought to life with atmospheric sounds, colours, and visual effects.

In my opinion, Cosmonaut is a very beautiful and visual film and well edited and scripted, with the help of people all over the world. Very nice to see this film took people from all over to deliver such a wonderful sight, and with no help from Hollywood, or any others like it.

Cosmonaut is very imaginative and entertaining, I would recommend this film to anyone. My only complaint about the film is the Russians speak with a British accent, but regardless very well done, and I think the films storyline is a message to all of us. If we all stick together we can accomplish anything. Hats off to the director Nicolás Alcalá, the actors, and to all the wonderful people that supported this film

Thank YOU! Thanks for reading Jeffrey J Turner, Canada

I watched this movie about a couple of years ago, but I do recommend my friends to watch it right until present day.

Actually there in only one mistake in that picture - the scene were they threw food in each other. That was out of line, out of spirit of USSR of 60th.

10 out of 10/ Outstanding