You could easily cut 45 minutes of this and it'd push the movie up to maybe a 3 out of 10.
It's such a boring and simple premise but really takes itself far too seriously, really thinking it's saying something or that the plot is deeper than it thinks it is. The end scene of the alien ship landing is crazy because it is all wrapped up in less than 10 minutes and it was so unnecessary.
Suddenly overnight all of the world apart from a small area of Russia and a few other countries (never mentioned again and saved by Russia) in a perfect circle are wiped out. Everyone just suddenly drops dead and all power fails. The mystery might have been interesting if they actually did anything with it. Instead we get a mission into the dark lands where we get shown there is a super powered survivor immediately. We later learn that it's an alien who they shoot numerous times and he is fine. Just ignore later on that they kill aliens with single shots.
It turns out aliens want to take over earth so are wiping out humans. Pretty clichéd plan but this time they have surviving brain washed humans to attack the rest of humanity. Or maybe they don't since the aliens can mind control normal humans too so could easily just make them all kill themselves, well, except when they can't mind control them because plot armour. The alien power level changes so dramatically that it's crazy when they say humanity is a threat to them.
There's a lot of chest thumping, a lot of heroic soldiers willing to die for the motherland, each main male character is just kind of given a hot, weak female love interest to follow him around and be pointless except for at the end they get maternal and can't kill the alien children as they instantly wipe out the whole alien invasion but let the children live because.... I don't know, women are just mothers in Russia I guess. It's kind of surprising how much this reminded me of Flying Tigers, a blatant American propaganda movie from 1942 that I watched a few nights ago with how they interact with eachother and the women. That movie is 80 years old though.
Lotta people just seem to think this is good sci fi because it has decent special effects and vehicles (the first credit is thanking the Russian MOD) and also that it isn't woke or has a political message. Except it does, it's just military propaganda filled with strong selfless men being adored by hot women in purely support roles and a strong government trying to control the weak willed masses. Usually in these movies the government cracking down on protests would be hinted as bad but here it's not the case at all. It's very blatant propaganda. The VDV also feature as the elite special forces group which is pretty comical given the last year.
Any movie I can't sit through gets a 1 and I ended up fast forwarding through all the combat scenes because they were so repetitive and listening to the exposition dumps at 2x speed.
It's such a boring and simple premise but really takes itself far too seriously, really thinking it's saying something or that the plot is deeper than it thinks it is. The end scene of the alien ship landing is crazy because it is all wrapped up in less than 10 minutes and it was so unnecessary.
Suddenly overnight all of the world apart from a small area of Russia and a few other countries (never mentioned again and saved by Russia) in a perfect circle are wiped out. Everyone just suddenly drops dead and all power fails. The mystery might have been interesting if they actually did anything with it. Instead we get a mission into the dark lands where we get shown there is a super powered survivor immediately. We later learn that it's an alien who they shoot numerous times and he is fine. Just ignore later on that they kill aliens with single shots.
It turns out aliens want to take over earth so are wiping out humans. Pretty clichéd plan but this time they have surviving brain washed humans to attack the rest of humanity. Or maybe they don't since the aliens can mind control normal humans too so could easily just make them all kill themselves, well, except when they can't mind control them because plot armour. The alien power level changes so dramatically that it's crazy when they say humanity is a threat to them.
There's a lot of chest thumping, a lot of heroic soldiers willing to die for the motherland, each main male character is just kind of given a hot, weak female love interest to follow him around and be pointless except for at the end they get maternal and can't kill the alien children as they instantly wipe out the whole alien invasion but let the children live because.... I don't know, women are just mothers in Russia I guess. It's kind of surprising how much this reminded me of Flying Tigers, a blatant American propaganda movie from 1942 that I watched a few nights ago with how they interact with eachother and the women. That movie is 80 years old though.
Lotta people just seem to think this is good sci fi because it has decent special effects and vehicles (the first credit is thanking the Russian MOD) and also that it isn't woke or has a political message. Except it does, it's just military propaganda filled with strong selfless men being adored by hot women in purely support roles and a strong government trying to control the weak willed masses. Usually in these movies the government cracking down on protests would be hinted as bad but here it's not the case at all. It's very blatant propaganda. The VDV also feature as the elite special forces group which is pretty comical given the last year.
Any movie I can't sit through gets a 1 and I ended up fast forwarding through all the combat scenes because they were so repetitive and listening to the exposition dumps at 2x speed.