Moscow Zero

I can't remember the worst film I have watched.Total waste of actors and audience time.If you prefer sitting by your TV and think when will be this film over,then this is the right film for you.Maybe this film is recorded to make people believe that Moscow has some mystique past. But I must say I have not expect anything else from Rade Serbedzija,but I have expected more from Vincent Gallo.The film lacks a plot, character,development,denouement.Entire movie is about underground tunnels and how they are mystique.I must be fair there is some camera effect but even that is too poor.Over and over are the same pictures.Total waste of time.

A mysterious and suspenseful film dealing with astonishing happenings. It concerns a priest called Owen : Vincent Gallo who hires a team to guide him into Moscow underword. His purport, along with his companions formed by a couple of Russian natives, is to find his friend Sergei, Rade Serbedzja, who was missing while researching dark legends about fantastic sanatic cults, as well as about a door leading to hell beneath Moscow. As in the bunch of misfits are the following ones : the beautiful Oksana Akinshina, the cunning tracker Joaquin De Almeida, Sage Stallone, among others. Along the way, they encounter scary demons and a group of children haunting them. A film by Luna in which the gates of the underworld have been opened !.

This is a supernatural and suspenseful shocker with thrills, chills and terrifying scenes.This ghost story picture displays lots of creepy, scary happenings and rare moments. It is set against the backdrop of seemingly endless underworld corridors in Moscow city, while a reverend accompanied by a motley group uncover strange evidences of horrifiyng spirits and bizarre devils . It keeps the mystery all around until he final, resulting in a complexing and puzzling conclusion. The main and support cast are acceptable, Vincent Gallo as an obstinate reverend with whom fall the beautiful Oksana Akinshina who previously starred Kyla 4 ever, the Portuguese Joaquin De Almeida, the veteran Joss Ackland, Rade Serbedzja, Sage Stallone who's Sylvester's son, and Spanish actors as Julio Periñan, Alex O'Dogherty, among others.

It packs an atmospheric and eerie musical score by Javier Navarrete, an expert musician who has composed great international successes such as : Pan's labyrinth, Wrath of the titans, Mirrors, Byzantium, Inkheart, Fireflies in the garden, Greta, among others. As well as dark and sinister cinematography by Ricardo Aronovich. The motion picture was regular but professionally directed by Maria Lidon or Luna, in her last one. Lidon is a good filmmaker who has only made three passable films, all of them starred by Joaquin de Almeida : Stranded or Naufragos 2001 with Vincent Gallo, Yo Puta 2004 with Denise Richards, Daryn Hannah and this Moscow Zero. Rating 5.5/10.

The plot in this movie is very thin, and there is not much acting. Val Kilmer--I don't know why he agreed to do this movie--plays a minor role as a gang leader. In short, the movie is tedious to watch.

One guy, who sort of resembles an archeology/religion professor, is exploring a subterranean area of Moscow, that has some history connected to railway construction and the Bolshevik revolution. A church tragedy in that history makes the exploration "spiritual" and spirits of a malevolent intent haunt the underground ruins. A friend of the professor decides to find his friend in the underground and hires a couple of Russian guides. The entire movie is based on this plot and contains much repeated footage of the underground, and some camera effects; much like those seen in "Day Watch", "Night Watch", etc.

There are good movies, and there are bad movies, and then there's Moscow Zero, a film so utterly bad it makes spending a month in solitary with an insurance salesman an attractive entertainment alternative.

With an incomprehensible plot about the gates of Hell opening within a labyrinth of tunnels under Moscow, the film is a mess of repetitive and nonsensical shots of a little girl running through tunnels, red lights floating about, and strange wall shadows, none of which serves to mount any fear or tension, but instead elicits the reaction of "here they go again with the girl (or lights)" from the viewer.

Directed by María Lidón, who for reasons I can only conclude as shame, was billed as Luna, the movie stars Vince Gallo as Owen, an American priest who travels to Moscow in search of Sergei (Rade Serbedzija), a friend and colleague who has gone missing in the tunnels. He enlists the help of a series of locals who, with the exception of Oksana Akinshina, are all portrayed by Spanish actors trying with limited success to inflect Russian accents.

Along the way they cross paths with members of some sort of underground leather-coated religious mafia headed by a portly Val Kilmer, whose career seems to be in such free fall that he's resorted to appearing in dreck like this, and henchman Sage Stallone (Sly's son), who seems to have been cast merely so the Stallone name can be included in the film's marquee.

Apart from watching the troupe try to navigate their way through the tunnels with the aid of a comically drawn map, and repetitive shots of them being followed or eluded by a pale faced young girl, not much else goes on throughout. Dialogue routinely switches between English and Russian, with actors frequently taking turns in each language, and entire conversations are uttered half in one and half in the other with the only apparent reason being they felt like it, adding a frustrating dimension for the viewer, over and above trying to figure out the crazily cobbled together story.

About the only thing Moscow Zero gets right, however, is its title, which could only have rendered a more accurate description of this movie if the word Moscow had been omitted.

If they had a Zero out of 10 I would of entered it. Everyone involved in this film should be ashamed of themselves taking money from the public. I don't know how films like this get released Video or Pay Channel. I am disappointed in Vincent Gallo. Val Kilmer was in it for about 8 minutes, so I can't get that mad at him. Only the person who listed him to be the star in it. It is like Marlon Brando in Superman.There is no plot except Gallo searching and finding his friend in the catacombs. Why they were searching for the gates of hell only the director knows. They should of kept this film in Moscow and burned it for fire to keep all the homeless extras warm for the night. There is nothing more to say about this film that all the other reviewers have written. I wish I could forget this movie it hurts my brain.