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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
If you enjoyed Matrix then this movie will ring a lot of the same bells: a potential saviour doesn't know his own potential and has to break through his disbelief in order to wipe out the bad guys who possess normal folks.
There's a lot of wire-work martial-style hand fighting and some nifty bullet dodging, plus a surreal fantasy city where the good guys earnestly debate how they're going to save the world while only working through their soldiers -- and the hero is one of those, known as Interceptors. He has to intercept the aliens, who are represented by gruesome manga-esque organic spikes and strands which pierce limbs and brains, skewering their puppets into submission. On top of all that there's a plot to unleash devasting weaponry upon an unsuspecting planet. And it's all very Russian.
We struggled to quite grasp all the details; from the opening sequences where the intro rushes by too fast to read, the plot is somewhat confused and garbled. After watching and chatting, I'm not convinced it holds up... but the experience was enjoyable enough and a very entertaining alternative to by-the-numbers American action movies. Some interesting visuals and effects, plus a very good stunt or two with the cars. Creative, even if not particularly coherant. (I'm sure it made more sense in Russian...)
Not a film I'd ever bother to watch again, so I'm glad we rented.
7/10
There's a lot of wire-work martial-style hand fighting and some nifty bullet dodging, plus a surreal fantasy city where the good guys earnestly debate how they're going to save the world while only working through their soldiers -- and the hero is one of those, known as Interceptors. He has to intercept the aliens, who are represented by gruesome manga-esque organic spikes and strands which pierce limbs and brains, skewering their puppets into submission. On top of all that there's a plot to unleash devasting weaponry upon an unsuspecting planet. And it's all very Russian.
We struggled to quite grasp all the details; from the opening sequences where the intro rushes by too fast to read, the plot is somewhat confused and garbled. After watching and chatting, I'm not convinced it holds up... but the experience was enjoyable enough and a very entertaining alternative to by-the-numbers American action movies. Some interesting visuals and effects, plus a very good stunt or two with the cars. Creative, even if not particularly coherant. (I'm sure it made more sense in Russian...)
Not a film I'd ever bother to watch again, so I'm glad we rented.
7/10
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
Having read the reviews on here I thought I'd give this film a try. I'm a fan of sci-fi and even films with plots you have to watch a few times to get them. This isn't one. The fact that the opening text describing what's going on go far too quickly to read (and I was really trying) tells you how much attention to detail this film has. The plot is incomprehensible. I watched the whole thing without a clue what was going on. There is a good guy and a bad guy (or a possessed guy - it's not clear) and the whole thing ends with some helicopters getting taken down (don't know who was in them or what they were for) and a fight with some sort of tree creature (I'm not kidding).
The lead actor is completely wooden and some of the special effects are terrible. At one point a load of guys supposedly jump out of a plane and are sky diving. Does the wind ruffle their clothes - not a bit of it. Looks like a load of cardboard cut-outs (which is what it is).
It's only saving grace is it's only 93 minutes long. It's 93 minutes of your life you'll never get back. It's the only blu-ray disc I've ever binned.
The lead actor is completely wooden and some of the special effects are terrible. At one point a load of guys supposedly jump out of a plane and are sky diving. Does the wind ruffle their clothes - not a bit of it. Looks like a load of cardboard cut-outs (which is what it is).
It's only saving grace is it's only 93 minutes long. It's 93 minutes of your life you'll never get back. It's the only blu-ray disc I've ever binned.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray
A front runner for the most incomprehensible film of the 21st century, Russian scifi actioner The Interceptor is a confused cross between Night Watch and The Matrix that never bothers to properly explain its premise, introduce the characters or come up with a remotely coherent plot in its hurry to get to the next stylised but disjointed action scene filled with slo-mo explosions. Even the opening introductory captions fade in and out before you can read them (it's even a problem on freeze frame), but it roughly boils down to the forces of light and darkness fighting a battle on Earth between an oligarch-cum-psychotropic arms dealer (who has a tendency to go into spasms as otherwise invisible roots penetrate his body to communicate with him) and his ex-partner who survives falling from an exploding plane and looks a little bit like a young Yul Brynner with a marine buzz cut. Throw in some vigilantes, a plot to destabilise Russia to allow a strong man to take over, the odd ex-girlfriend, some cod philosophy and a fallen angel figure, all shot in lovingly over-exposed and desaturated colour, and the result is the kind of confused mess that you'd get if a teenage videogame fan was given a lot of money to make a well wicked movie. A lot of noise, a lot of explosions but not much sense and not much entertainment value either. A decent 2.35:1 widescreen transfer with English subtitles, but the only extra is a trailer.
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(Possible spoilers, but only in explaining the basics)
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