Cosmoball

Very bad storytelling. I had to watch ONE HOUR before I was granted an explanation of what the story was about. Actors are okay, some girls are cute, CGI is okay even though it lacks any style. Music is heavily plagiarized from US movies and video games (Lucasarts). As a whole, this is obviously a try at making in-house Hollywood action sci-fi. Could be worse, but could be better than this cheesy story. A better director would help.

I had not even heard about "Vratar Galaktiki" (aka "Cosmoball") prior to getting the chance to sit down and watch it. So I had no idea what I was in for, nor what I should or could expect from the movie.

Well, I managed to endure an hour of the movie, then I just gave up out of sheer and utter boredom. The storyline told in "Vratar Galaktiki" was just rubbish. It was so simplistic that it seemed like it was written by a 5th grader, which was just impressive as they had no less than 5 writers working on the script. So I was amazed with the fact that the storyline turned out to be such a boring result.

While the movie lacked greatly in the story department, then the movie was more than generous in the visual effects and presentation department. Wow. Just wow! I must admit that "Vratar Galaktiki" was visually stunning to look at. The attention to detail and the creativity unfolding on the screen was just spectacular. However, visuals can only do so much for a movie that is flatlining in the storyline department.

And I was unfortunate enough to watch a dubbed version. That is a horrible experience. A movie should be enjoyed in its original language, as more than often is the dubbing work of questionable quality.

After having sat through 1 hour of pointless storyline and not caring one ounce about the characters or the plot, I just gave up. And I can honestly say that I have zero intention of returning to finish watching the movie.

My rating of "Vratar Galaktiki" lands on a three out of ten stars. And that is solely because the visuals and CGI does manage to elevate the movie to that point.

This movie is a russian masterpiece. Everything from the soundtrack to the visuals and the monologue to the acting. This movie is just incredible! Highly recommend! 10/10 looking forward to part 2 already

Most irritating about the movie was the lead actor, in my opinion worst i have ever seen if you can watch past him the movie is watchable he the lead actor truly ruined the movie

This movie felt like a really bad combination of 5 different movies plot-wise. Watching this in English will confuse the living daylights out of you if you ARE trying to follow the choppy terrible plot, I'm not too sure it's better in the original language.

Visually, the sfx and cg teams did phenomenally. This movie was beautiful, the effects were stunning and believable (to the eye), and the various aliens and strange fauna were fantastic.

Tldr: enjoyable if you really really don't care about anything plot related and are only watching for the visuals! Hope to see more from this cg studio but with better writers!!