10/10
Russia in 90
19 January 2022
The film was shot with a good sense of humor, but the humor here is black, a lot of corpses, a lot of murders, blood. How the concepts of humor and murder can be combined is unclear, but in this film they do not contradict each other.

The film tells about the events that took place in the mid-90s - cool brothers, criminal authorities, crimson jackets, how issues were solved then and what means were used.

The two main characters Simon (D. Dyuzhev) and Sergey (Alexey Panin) are assistants of the criminal authority, they are the acting force of the criminal authority, they perform the tasks of the boss, and they are not shy about the means.

I really liked the way Simon was played. Such a cabinet, without a single thought on its face, stupidly following the instructions, for him to kill that mosquito to swat, there is no pity, no sympathy in it. He kills people like monsters in a video game - without emotion, you can say for sport.

Sergey is almost the complete opposite of Simon, he is not devoid of intelligence, but he is not endowed with it enough to become at the helm. You can read fear, apprehension in him, it is clear that he is not reckless, he does not kill, but looks very calmly at Simon's actions.

A lot of famous actors are engaged in the film - V. Sukhorukov, S. Makovetsky, N. Mikhalkov, even Garik Sukachev lit up.

The film is clearly not for children and not for people with a weak psyche. There is no outright massacre and bloodshed, but the ease with which people are killed is terrifying, the sight of all this involuntarily distorts.
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