2009-04-14
Zero Moscow
The main review bills this movie rather cheekily as some sort of pay-off/battle of wills between the Vincent Gallo character 'Owen' & the Val Kilmer character 'Andrey'. It isn't. Indeed Val Kilmer is hardly in it, and the bit he is in is rather shabby, unengaged and uninterested.
This leaves us with indie hero Gallo to take up his role as leading man. Gallo, a sort of cross between Woody Allen & Sean Penn, does his best with what little he is given, but the film displays its lack of a budget rather markedly. As the movie features no real demons, asides from hints and shadows, I'm sure you can imagine much of this film for yourself. We are taken into into some subterannaean labyrith with Vincent and a couple of others and they make their way through the shadowy tunnels without any real sense of dread or trepidation; there's some ghostly children, some shaky camera technique and some mediocre CGI - the worst of which is saved for the end.
Whilst there's merit to be found in the acting talent on show the film certainly doesn't deliver the sort of storyline promised in the main review.