Sean
It's a drama which portrays emotions like hope, panic and apathy excellently with its cast and setting. Highly recommend giving it a watch
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
07/26/23
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Karl-Reinhold S
The movie draws you into a harsh reality of rich vs poor. The fool demonstrates why there is no room for people with morals. In the end, people are the same, cruel, with some having caviar on their tables and others, pickles.
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06/18/23
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Siriporn P
Quite unrealist that the building is cracking this far but no one ever notices it plus that the building is about to collapse within 24 hours. Anyway, the big picture of the plot is good and reflects quite "human".
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Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
03/11/23
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Audience Member
It is awesome !! The comedy just continues!!
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
02/22/23
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Audience Member
I've seen my fair share of solid Russian flicks. Old or new, the Russians have been putting out solid films for years, and this is another one. A man, the only one left in town with a good heard it seems, finds out that a big building is about to collapse and hundreds will die. He stir it up for the local government and they don't like it.
We get to se how he, and everyone else deals with it. It's bleak and cold. It's raw and grim, but our protagonist keeps a small light lit. It's beautiful.
Well acted and well produced. Rarely flat and it stays interesting the whole 120 minutes. I read that the man that was in charge of an Russian channel that screened it on television lost his job straight after it was shown. It does not surprise me. Kind of important, especially of you consider how a made up film can be important for something other than entertainment and self pleasure.
9 out of 10 cracks.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
01/17/23
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alex h
"The Fool" is great because of it's realism. Not a single part of the story was thought for me to be something, that wouldn't really happen in real life. The message of the movie is simple -- in the world of corruption and money nobody cares about human lives and although everybody knows the consequences, people are more egoistic and tend to worry about their own lives, even if someone else's is at stake. The main hero is basically a metaphor for every single kind and smart person living in the world, which are a very small percent of the population, whereas everybody else only worry about their own lives and their own comfort zones. The film is brilliant in portraying modern outside Moscow Russia's setting, as of how 90s it still is and how everything is dealt through not the diplomatic way, but rather through fists, blood and money. I adore the director's strength and bravery of portraying Russia the way it really is, not just a country of people who are always laughing and are very patriotic, like in nearly all other Russian movies. He is brave because of how well he provides the viewer with the allegories and how he makes the viewer feel like if he himself is the main hero of this film, who is so desperately trying to save the world. But, in such world this man is useless, his wife is thinking logically, which is why she is right and although, you don't want to admit the truth until the very end of the movie, every single brave move of the main character inspires you. The film is incredibly filmed, every angle makes you feel like if you are in full presence of the events through the entirety of the movie. The actors are fantastic, starting from their voices to their emotions, although there was one scene in the police car where you knew what would happen, because of how one actor's face looked like, which really removed the "shocking" part from the film. You feel this cluster of emotions, you understand the motives of the characters and you constantly put yourself in their place. Balabanov is a real artist, which deserves more attention from the world, not just Russia. A 9/10, strongly recommend it to anybody who likes breathtaking and thought provoking thrillers.
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Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
03/31/23
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