Black Rose

After five young women of Russian descent are brutally murdered, the Los Angeles Police Department contacts Moscow and requests the assistance of one of their best detectives to aid in the investigation. In response, Russia sends "Vladimir Kazatov" (Alexander Nevsky), who always manages to get the job done--one way or another. Sure enough, no sooner does he get to Los Angeles than he manages to get into a gunfight with two armed thugs, leaving one dead and the other severely maimed. That aside, he is quickly paired with a patterns analyst named Emily Smith (Kristanna Loken), who lacks real field experience but compensates for it with her keen understanding of the criminal mind. The problem, however, is that the serial killer has been alerted and is now pursuing them as well. Now, rather than reveal any more, I will just say that this movie is basically a rehash of the successful Arnold Schwarzenegger film "Red Heat" but with Alexander Nevsky in the lead role instead. He fails miserably. So bad, in fact, that I rank his performance even lower than Jon Voight's attempt at impersonating Al Pacino's "Scarface" in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not that it matters, but Jon Voight was nominated for a Golden Raspberry for that performance. Deservedly so, in my opinion. Nevertheless, I didn't enjoy this particular film, and I have rated it accordingly. Below average.

Everything that Nevsky does is lies, falsehood and dust in the eyes.

Born Kuritsyn, he has no serious sports victories and titles, and in the world of real bodybuilding he is a laughing stock. The only ones who know him in Hollywood are bad actors like Adrian Paul and other unfortunates. Kristana Loken is another dummy, one-night star whose career was safely ruined by Uwe Boll.

The actor from Nevsky is also no. The fact that he allegedly graduated from the Lee Strasberg Acting Academy in California is an obvious nonsense. Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Dustin Hoffman, Steve Buscemi and Angelina Jolie have been alumni at various times. And they are all really talented actors, which cannot be said about Sanka Kurochkin, who cannot play AT ALL!

And with all this - people believe! In this, Kuritsin must be given his due, he is a brilliant hoaxer.

And what support on TV! =D

But I will find out everything about what I am going to see, and people like Kuritsyn cannot deceive me. Therefore, films that interest me live up to my expectations in 9 cases out of 10.

But what about the average viewer?

The promotion of the film on TV smiled terribly. In particular, in Russia, the release of the film was given a whole plot. Action is there, all the cases. A tough man is healthy, in the credits they write "Mr. Universe", Russian Schwarzenegger. "The announcer talks about how a Hollywood actor, producer and director, a friend of Arnold, Jean Claude and Sylvester - Alexander Nevsky, together with a large Hollywood studio, shoots an American blockbuster in Moscow, with yourself in the lead role. On the screen, footage from the filming, explosions, shootouts, etc. And at the end they showed the trailer of the film, which, to be fair, looks pretty cool. But this is the job of marketers and editors, to present you with a poop on saucer, so that you look at her and exclaim: - "Wow! I'm buying Kachayidu at the cinema!" (Rather, after all, the first, right? ;))

I am sympathetic to those people thanks to whom this misunderstanding was able to collect more than $ 800,000 at the box office - the sucker is not a mammoth - he will not die out, and judging by some reviews, he will also say thank you. Yes, and God be with him. Another thing is more confusing - what $ 7,000,000 was spent on in this misunderstanding. Although, the question is stupid) Rollback, sawing, laundering, etc. Terms familiar to every Russian. Even relatives.

Total:

There is no acting! Kurochkin vaguely imagines what it is.

No directing either! Kurochkin generally vaguely imagines what it is.

Music - cheap pretentious nonsense played on spoons, saucepans and a cheap synthesizer.

The intrigue is fecal, the motivation of the villain is fecal, the motivation of Western cops, who invited 2 meters of disgrace to themselves, to investigate the murder is fecal.

As a result, the whole film is one big poop.

Everything about this film is rotten - the story, the script, the direction, editing, music, effects, acting, lighting, pace, action scenes, background scenes, link scenes, scenery in general ... Oh hang on, there is one plus point: the actors are very well dressed, well groomed.

Nothing like any LA police I've ever seen though.

Apparently, this is a 2014 movie that is just being released on DVD, and which I found in Redbox. Set in Los Angeles, it centers on the search for a serial killer, named the Black Rose Killer, as a black rose and a cryptic message in Russian are left on the bodies of each mutilated victim.

Set in Los Angeles, so far five young Russian women have been murdered in the tight knit community of West Hollywood. A LAPD Captain (Robert Davi) has decided to put a fresh team together to try and track down the psycho killer, so he imports a brazen Russian Major (Alexander Nevsky) to pair with a rookie female detective (Kristanna Loken),

The rapport and chemistry between Nevsky and Loken was pretty effective and there is some decent humor sprinkled throughout the film. However, overall, I found the dialogue and most of the acting to be quite wooden and stilted.

There's also loads of cold-blooded killings, bloody torture scenes, and grizzly showings of the dead victims. As the movie progresses the body counts and the carnage just multiplies. There's a big twist at the end, which I didn't guess, but which by that point I didn't really care very much about.

All in all, can't recommend. To note, there were no subtitles on my DVD copy, except when Russian was being spoken, but I was able to use the closed caption option on my remote to get the subtitles.

'The Room' has a new contender. I love bad movies, and this one takes it to a whole new level. Bad writing, cinematography, editing, and TERRIBLE acting.

Starring the director/producer, Alexander Nevsky, who can barely speak English. His acting is so wooden I think the blue fairy JUST turned him into a real boy. Co-stars Kristanna Loken, she played that Terminator 3 robot who never spoke(Perfect casting after seeing this movie). The director also gave his girlfriend, Oksana Sidorenko, a bit part. Probably because everyone else read the script. Adrian Paul(star of the Highlander tv show), and Robert Davi did alright considering the script and complete lack of understandable direction.

The movie was 83 minutes long, but with all the completely random b-roll and unnecessary sequences it could be 30 minutes long. It's as if the editor decided that half the movie was unwatchable and cut it out. Then said to somebody, "Stick a camera out a car window and drive around. That'll fill up some time!" One example: In the beginning he visits the ocean for 5 minutes and then it never comes up again. Why did he stare at seagulls 5 minutes?!

All and all, this is one of the worse movies I've ever seen. A great example of how not to make a movie. And that is why it's worth watching.