It's got, not a "big" budget feel but filming in some fairly well known Russian places, ok not shutting down TimeSquare for Vanilla Sky big, but that feel to it and large shopping centre's being used, the cast, the general filming. It feels like a somewhat high quality film probably up to what, meeting the Russian guys with a horse. there is just a group of people living in an obvious place the aliens haven't gone near apparently, and hte script ouch. Everything really from that point onwards was like it was writen in a rush, filmed on a camcorder and become a dodgy scify channel made for tv movie all of a sudden.
The "I must stay and fight for Russia", it was so generic and poorly acted, going down the river, the ridiculous way they killed his friend, as said the sudden running away from the river, managing to get up a fairly high bank and run off for no reason.
Up till that meeting the rusky horse bit it was between good and passable, the last part of the film was SO awful it was a joke.
Oh, and the guy from the killing with the M16 who "thought he heard or saw(can't remember which) something so walked off down the street spraying bullets..... at nothing? It's those moments where they have a point, decent acting, decent script, decent premise then whammo, someone does something completely stupid for no reason as they obviously wanted one of their group to die at regular intervals.
WAY better than reviews/ratings suggested, terrible ending.
I though this one had enough new twists to keep it very entertaining and except for a few plot issues (mentioned in the spoiler above) I thought it was well executed and virtually every actor did a fantastic job of making you care about the people on screen although they battled a script that wasn't great in places.
Will probably watch all or most of two towers today. Apparently they keep getting better with the final movie having gotten all the awards.
