Before seeing Bitva za Sevastopol I didn't expect it to intrigue me as much as the other two Russian flicks I covered - Ispytanie and Chempiony. Thankfully, I was wrong.
The main character of the movie - Lyudmila Pavlichenko - gets an excellent performance. You care about her, she is likable and badass at moments. The supporting cast shares excellence as well and as the film continues their characters get better and better. There's a great amount of action, provided with nice cinematography and some blood. Fortunately Bitva za Sevastopol isn't all about the action but for its story, which gets you more and more intrigued as the minutes pass with moments of war genre brilliance.
A small issue I have is that it begins a bit too slow but the action, the drama, the characters pay off for the slow beginning.
As a whole, Bitva of Sevastopol turns out as a personal favourite of mine, with its own way of getting a 10/10.
The main character of the movie - Lyudmila Pavlichenko - gets an excellent performance. You care about her, she is likable and badass at moments. The supporting cast shares excellence as well and as the film continues their characters get better and better. There's a great amount of action, provided with nice cinematography and some blood. Fortunately Bitva za Sevastopol isn't all about the action but for its story, which gets you more and more intrigued as the minutes pass with moments of war genre brilliance.
A small issue I have is that it begins a bit too slow but the action, the drama, the characters pay off for the slow beginning.
As a whole, Bitva of Sevastopol turns out as a personal favourite of mine, with its own way of getting a 10/10.