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Bitva za Sevastopol (2015)
Old tired Soviet cliché
For someone who was born 14 years after the WW2 ended and who grew up in USSR watching hundreds of similar war flicks, this one just doesn't cut it. It isn't a movie even, it's a primitive cartoon, full of stick figure characters, and how can anyone sympathize with walking stick figures is beyond me. There are no people in this movie, not one, not even the lady Eleanor - played by the sole American on the cast. And certainly not the protagonist Lyuda, although I can see that she tried. I just can't imagine why would anyone make a movie like that in 2015. To me, it clearly belongs in the late 1950 - early 1960s era, back when better directors made better movies than this one - every year by a dozen.
The Headsman (2005)
Not good enough
All right. The movie being a movie has got to make money for the team that made it. It serves that purpose, only. And as such it is rather mediocre. Why would I say that? Well, because the reality it is trying to convey to us was 100,000 times worse. Because no movie would ever approach the banality of horror that was everyday life in the dark ages of history. Yes, I have such high standards. Sorry. However. This movie is yet another (among countless) that show how the religiosity is being a scrounge of human race. From the dawn of time to the modernity. I do not hold my breath that within my lifetime (whatever has left of it) this plague will go away never to return. Because it must be something somatic. Some gland malfunction on a protein level that makes men and women identify themselves with in a supernatural entity being in fashion of worshiping at the time in a given place. From this point, they are willing to violate all rules and laws - lie, steal, degrade, and kill - all for the glory of an imaginary dude in the sky. Or "everywhere".
Just out of purely statistical evidence, accounting for millenia of the history of human civilization - one must conclude that religion is a disease of the brain, a medical condition - and NOT necessarily psychiatric - that is a danger to the fabric of civilization itself, now and more so in the future. I only hope that someone somewhere is working on a cure. And please do yourself a favor by watching this movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1186830/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1