Oh dear oh dear. What a mess. The plot is good. The docufiction reference frame is good. The actors are top notch professionals. But the directing is pure amateur night.
The music score is as ridiculous as the direction, specially in the scene changes were laughable cutover fanfares reminds you of b-movies from the fifties.
(minor spoiler) The worst scene must be the Russian soldier getting an amateur fit and stalking like a zombie into the woods having a shootout with a laughably inept hit-man. When he is finally shot he makes a jump backwards himself to simulate the popular film cliché of being thrusted backwards by bullets. What a farce.
I am amazed that the great actors like Jürgen Prochnow and Donald Sutherland did not file a lawsuit against the release of this bomb. Listing all the inept scenes would make a list as long as the script. The direction is so inept that Ed Wood would have cringed.
The music score is as ridiculous as the direction, specially in the scene changes were laughable cutover fanfares reminds you of b-movies from the fifties.
(minor spoiler) The worst scene must be the Russian soldier getting an amateur fit and stalking like a zombie into the woods having a shootout with a laughably inept hit-man. When he is finally shot he makes a jump backwards himself to simulate the popular film cliché of being thrusted backwards by bullets. What a farce.
I am amazed that the great actors like Jürgen Prochnow and Donald Sutherland did not file a lawsuit against the release of this bomb. Listing all the inept scenes would make a list as long as the script. The direction is so inept that Ed Wood would have cringed.