If it wanted to tell us the war in Chechnya was horrific, it succeeded, even if a lot of the content was historically inaccurate, yet posing as truth in all its documentary style horror. If it wants to tell us that in this war virtue and morality got squashed just like corpses under a tank, and sacrifice lost all nobility in this pit of man-made Hell, it succeeded.
...but it saidly failed to decide on what exactly it wants to be and failed to be either thing in the end.
Very aweful. Don't waste your time to watch this film.
Not an easy piece of cinema to swallow, but still a great movie! Being a sort of a documentary-like this movie is not easy to watch.
A terrific documentary drama very well done. The director himself was a TV journalist at the scene at the time of the fighting depicted in the film.
First of all, the other reviewers said things like "sort of a documentary-like this movie", "this one shows what really happened", and even a "terrific documentary drama". This is completely wrong, as this is a fictional story about fictional characters.
Another reviewer here called this movie "nationalist propaganda". One has to understand that Nevzorov is s a cynical man by nature, who has not just seen the war trough the tube but been there himself.
