Thats one of the worst movies i have ever seen. But what a mighty advertising campaign it had in Russia! Watching this movie one cant but think again - cinema has become just pure business, it's not any kind of art anymore. This movie is a bright example of that. Same actors played in a movie before, which was quite successful, so the director of the movie made "something-who-cares-what" to get people, especially little naive girls, back to movies and earn as much as possible from that. The scenario is awful, but we could forgive that in a romantic movie, it should be all about love. We would forgive, if it was a romantic movie. But i don't even know how to name this movie, it's not romantic for sure, even though they tried hard to input something that at least looks like that. It's a meaningless fake, the whole movie is a fake. Pure "glamour from fashion magazines" in its worst meaning. Being a native Russian, i am really very upset that foreigners can see Russia from this point of view: skinheads seem to be everywhere, tourists are not safe, everything is so superficial. And in general, for a foreigner it would be much harder to define what the movie lacks, where it goes wrong, and where it misinterprets on purpose. Lets see ourselves, how much of bad taste is in the following: summer rain on the background of Christ the Savior Temple, gastarbeiters from former CIS countries on the ruins of "Rossiya" hotel on the Red Square (what for a picture is that?!), oligarch's son in jail together with an American tourist (both categories just don't get there), one (?!) currency exchange in whole Moscow as well as one taxi driver, so strange thief, doing strange unexplainable things, to say nothing of an unhappy girl gnawing her piano, but then, thanks God! becoming a happy striptease girl with a shy smile and eyes down. Resume: kitch, lack of taste, no meaning, waste of time.
Review of Zhara
