AlKok

This movie is a rare instance when a film gets better the longer you watch it. I'd say that if you manage to suffer through the first 20 minutes of it's runtime you will start to appreciate it's strong sides.

The main cast does a good job at painting complex characters, although they are clearly confined by the weak writing.

Visually, the film sometimes looks amazing with longshots and expressive camera choices. But next second the movie looks like the editor was checking out all of the buttons in Adobe Premiere and decided to forget about any sense of taste or moderation.

Music-wise its strong, with some bangers, especially when they try to include some Russian soul in the music choices.

It's fair to say that the goal of making a believable portrait of Edward Limonov is a rather difficult one. And the movie, with all it's questionable choices and subpart writing, managed to catch at least a little bit of magic that it should have had.

There is no reason why this movie should've seen the light of day. The script is overused and has no fresh ideas up its sleeves, the designs are reskins of every movie with the similar setting and most of the songs are just placeholders to reach the time limit for a movie to be shown in the theaters. Most of the musical beats don't move the story forward, its like watching a random MTV clip in the middle of the mediocre drama about a loser who succeeded for no reason at all. Apart from two good songs and one somewhat well-written character, this movie has nothing to offer for a viewer. Go see some other musicals, there are even some with Hugh Jackman in them. Sad and uninventive, if you don't have anything to say - stay silent.