This is not a good movie. It's not even okay. It's a bad film and it's not really a subjective issue.
Some background: Nicky is considered a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church and his depiction in this film, doing unsaintly things, was highly controversial in Russia. Not really boycotts and a hashtag campaign, but terrorism and bomb threats, which only succeeded in delaying the premiere.
Some of the low scores it gets is from people who are against this film. Most other votes are from people who thought it was a bad movie. And they're completely right.
I don't have any qualms with how historically accurate the film is, or I would have none, if it were good. It's inaccurate, but gets no minus points for inaccuracy, just for being boring.
The palaces, interiors, dresses, etc. are all very pretty, but the story is really boring. A lot of things are quite amateurish - when the empress told her son that the affair with the dancer must end and that the dancer must disappear, she said "promise me" (that that will happen). Nicky says "no" and walks away. So the empress talks to herself and says "Then I'll have to do it myself" - this kind of weak acting, weak script, where a person reveals their evil masterplan to the viewers is something of theater or really low quality TV, not of cinema.
The sex scenes, while well shot and performed, are too long and don't advance the story. It reminds me of The Room or Samurai Cop. Between the sex scenes, the bedroom/pillow talk scenes, the Mathilde getting dressed scenes, kissing scenes, bathtub scenes and the many, many dance scenes (dance and rehearsal) a lot of this film is just "look at this pretty stuff."
There's really not much left to say without going over the plot other than it's really light on story and heavy on aesthetic.
Some background: Nicky is considered a saint by the Russian Orthodox Church and his depiction in this film, doing unsaintly things, was highly controversial in Russia. Not really boycotts and a hashtag campaign, but terrorism and bomb threats, which only succeeded in delaying the premiere.
Some of the low scores it gets is from people who are against this film. Most other votes are from people who thought it was a bad movie. And they're completely right.
I don't have any qualms with how historically accurate the film is, or I would have none, if it were good. It's inaccurate, but gets no minus points for inaccuracy, just for being boring.
The palaces, interiors, dresses, etc. are all very pretty, but the story is really boring. A lot of things are quite amateurish - when the empress told her son that the affair with the dancer must end and that the dancer must disappear, she said "promise me" (that that will happen). Nicky says "no" and walks away. So the empress talks to herself and says "Then I'll have to do it myself" - this kind of weak acting, weak script, where a person reveals their evil masterplan to the viewers is something of theater or really low quality TV, not of cinema.
The sex scenes, while well shot and performed, are too long and don't advance the story. It reminds me of The Room or Samurai Cop. Between the sex scenes, the bedroom/pillow talk scenes, the Mathilde getting dressed scenes, kissing scenes, bathtub scenes and the many, many dance scenes (dance and rehearsal) a lot of this film is just "look at this pretty stuff."
There's really not much left to say without going over the plot other than it's really light on story and heavy on aesthetic.