The film "Warrior": reviews of the movie

The film "Warrior", reviews of which became almost the most discussed topic of the outgoing year, was produced by Fedor Bondarchuk and was released in October 2015. The advertisement of the forthcoming premiere was widely broadcast on the central television channels, the audience expected to see something extraordinary. Was it possible to surprise the public with good Russian movies this time?

The creators of the picture

"Good" Russian cinema was not without the American scriptwriter: the script of "Warrior" was overbought from David Frigerio, who also was engaged in creating a script for the talentless film "Signal", released on screens in 2014. Adaptation of the creation of the American "maestro" Ilya Tilkin ("Gregory R.").

In fact, Bondarchuk's film is a copy of the American film of 2011 with Tom Hardy in the title role.

The film "Warrior", whose comments can hardly be called unambiguous, was staged by Alexei Andrianov, who in 2012 debuted with the full-length picture "Spy" with Daniil Kozlovsky in the title role.

Producers of the sports drama were Fedor Bondarchuk and Dmitry Rudovsky.

Fedor Bondarchuk as Andrey

The film "Warrior", whose reviews are numerous, allowed Fedor Bondarchuk to appear before the public in a completely new role. In the film, which Bondarchuk himself produced, he singled out the role of Andrei - the father of two brothers, who are destined to meet in one duel.

Andrei is a former successful boxing coach who, after leaving the big sport, becomes a Kaliningrad fisherman. In the family of the former coach, too, everything does not go well: his two sons, Roman and Glory, do not communicate with him or with each other. When the international tournament for mixed battles with a large prize pool appears on the horizon, each of the brothers decides to win in it. To Andrei comes his youngest son Romka and asks him to train.

Fyodor Bondarchuk in this picture moved away from the usual for him roles of businessmen and ladies' lovers. On the contrary, in "Warrior" he got a character unpopular and thrown out of his life by the wayside. A big plus can be put Bondarchuk for the fact that he still decided on such an experiment.

Vladimir Yaglych as Glory

Vladimir Yaglych in life also engaged in mixed battles, so play Slava - one of the participants in the fight - he told God himself. Only two or three months stood out in preparation for the shooting. During this time, it would be difficult to "pull" any other actor in boxing. Maybe that's why the star of the paintings "We from the Future" and "Five Brides" got into the movie "Warrior"?

Reviews about the actor's game, however, were mostly positive. It immediately catches the eye that Vladimir is well laid out on the set. His character Glory is in a difficult situation: he urgently needs money for the treatment of a seriously ill child. To get them, the character Yaglych will have to be destroyed in the ring of his own brother.

Vladimir Yaglych himself does not pay attention to the criticism of the painting "The Warrior" and is convinced that this adaptation should be removed, since in the Russian interpretation it looks more spectacular. Most likely, after such a noticeable role in the Russian cinema will appear one more popular movie star.

Svetlana Khodchenkova as Katya

If we talk about film critics, they did not spare the picture "Warrior" - the reviews about the film were devastating. But the project allowed to reveal from an entirely unexpected side to another actress - Svetlana Khodchenkova.

After the roles of obedient and correct girls, which Khodchenkova received at the beginning of her career, in recent years, the actress has managed to take a step forward: Svetlana managed to break into Hollywood, play a villain in the blockbuster "X-Men," a maniacal lady in a horror film, a spy, alcoholic poetess And many other uncharacteristic roles for it. Now on the account of Khodchenkova still the role of stripper, because this is the heroine of the actress in the movie "Warrior".

Katya is the wife of Glory. Together they are the parents of a seriously ill child. Spouses are racking their brains over where to find money for the treatment of their daughter. Katya decides to get a dancer in the port club. But this does not save the family budget. Then Slava goes to earn money for fights without rules.

"Warrior": Bondarchuk. Reviews of the actor's game

The storm of indignation in the audience was caused by the game of Sergei Bondarchuk, Jr.. While in the filmography of the novice actor only four films, but confused by the fact that the father of the young man ("Stalingrad" and "Warrior") relates to two of them, and in "Thaw" Sergei got only because someone had to play His famous grandfather. The drama "Champions", in which Sergei will again play the main role, will be released only in 2016.

As for the drama "Warrior", reviews of the film show that this is not the best work of Sergei. In this film he got the main role - a former Marine and brother of the Glory Roman. According to the plot, Roman is the second contender for the victory in the championship in mixed battles and is forced to resist in the ring to his own brother.

The main positive point is that outside the screen, Sergei regularly engaged in mixed martial arts, so the battle scene Bondarchuk and Yaglych is quite high quality.

Alexander Baluev as Kulikov

"Warrior", reviews of which in October could be read in many newspapers, was the next film work of the famous artist Alexander Baluyev.

Alexander Baluev extensive filmography. He graduated from the Moscow Art Theater School and debuted for the first time on the screen in 1981 in the cult picture "The Conduct of the Connoisseurs". However, Baluev then got an episodic role, but very soon the actor proved that he can be trusted and the main roles. In 1988 Baluyev played the Udaltsov brothers in the film "The Wife of the Kerosene". But Alexandra Baluyeva made other very popular films - the drama "Life Line" and "Bless the Woman", the series "Maroseyka-12" and "Spetsnaz".

In the film "Warrior" Baluyev got the role of a negative character - a certain Kulikov. The image of Alexander did not have any interesting nuances, he simply played a scoundrel in all his vile beauty. Therefore, something significant picture "Warrior" for the actor did not.

Criticism

Critics of the movie "Warrior" reviews mostly written negative. The critic of the Moscow-based newspaper Time-out observes the spectacularity of screen fights, but reproaches the director and the writer for the incoherence and void of the dialogues, as well as the transfer of the American plot to "unfit for realities."

The newspaper Empire in general called the film a "Chinese fake", and journalists of the newspaper "Novy Vzglyad" saw in Adriyanov's new picture an attempt to create a kind of a well-known Russian thriller "Brother." But The Hollywood reporter praises the film, but again a positive assessment concerns screen fights and the overall intent of the picture, but not its embodiment.

Why did critics so unanimously negatively perceive the film? Is the film "Warrior" Bondarchuk really deserve such reviews? What do the audience say?

"Warrior" (Russia): feedback from viewers

After the release of the "Warrior" screens, there was a rare case when both critics and spectators gave the same assessment to the film. Positively evaluated only the game of several actors, as well as the setting of battles. In other cases, 9 out of 10 viewers' reviews are negative. Complaints are the same: what does Sergei Bondarchuk do in this picture, why did this mediocre remake take place, etc.? Why is this happening?

No matter how much they say that the Russian viewer is not particularly spoiled, he still feels a lie. And the film "Warrior" is thoroughly impregnated with it. Not because the actors did not try to justify the actions of their heroes, but because it was impossible to do it. With an unaided eye, it is clear that a purely American plot was wrested from American realities and transferred to Russian conditions, where "this can not be, because it can not be in principle."

Lies and absurdity flicker even in small things. Well, what international association will hold an international tournament on mixed battles with a million prize fund in a provincial city? Who will come to watch this tournament in such a wilderness? Why speculate and squeeze a tear from the viewer, mixing in this story also the child's illness? What kind of tips can a heroine stripper Svetlana Khodchenkova get in a small port town? It seems that the scriptwriter attributed the profession to Catherine "at random", if only there was a spectacular number in the picture using a pole. In a word, there are more questions than there are answers. And behind this is the frank lack of logic and a heap of useless facts from the life of the main characters.

So the Russian film "Warrior" reviews were not very good. And this "slap in the face" is directed specifically towards the screenwriters, producers and director of the project.