Moscow Zero (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

3.4/10   

Director:

María Lidón

Guionista:

Adela Ibañez (writer)

Género:

Acción | Drama | Horror | Misterio | Suspenso

Frase comercial:

A Film By Luna.

Plot:

In Moscow, the priest Owen hires a team to guide him in the underworld to find his friend Sergei that is missing while researching the legend about the existence of demons and an entrance to hell beneath the city.

Plot Keywords:

Underground | Hell | Priest | Religion | Heaven

Comentarios de los usuarios:

The gates to Hell

Reparto

Vincent Gallo	...	Owen
Oksana Akinshina	...	Lyuba
Val Kilmer	...	Andrey
Sage Stallone	...	Vassily
Joaquim de Almeida	...	Yuri
Rade Serbedzija	...	Sergei
Joss Ackland	...	Tolstoy
Alex O'Dogherty	...	Pavel
Julio Perillán	...	Alec Miller
Roman Shamko	...	Ksiel
Borja Romaniv	...	Asbeel
Alejandro Horeyda	...	Ksiel's Group Member
Juan Carlos Guerrero	...	Ksiel's Group Member
Ekaterina Vovenko	...	Ksiel's Group Member
Marilo Muñoz	...	Dark Old Woman

MPAA:

Rated R for language.

Duración:

82 min

País:

USA | Spain | UK

Idioma:

Inglés | Ruso

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Spain:15 | USA:R | Italy:T | Portugal:M/16 | UK:15 | South Korea:18 | Singapore:NC-16

Locaciones de Filmación:

Carmona, Sevilla, Andalucía, Spain

Compañía:

Valentia Pictures

Trivialidades:

The title of the film is a term used in quantum electrodynamics (QED).

Citas:

Little Girl: The gates to hell have opened.

The gates to Hell

MOSCOW ZERO is a really dark, mystical and supernatural film. The plot is very straight to follow since it's just about a quest to find SERGEI (played by Rade Serbedzija) an old friend of the father OWEN (played by Vincent Gallo) that went to the catacombs of Moscow alone. The entire movie is passed in there. Though the film has a very open ending, which is, by the way, very well connected to the mysterious and mystical ambiance that is always present… What I appreciated the most in the film was precisely this mystical and supernatural ambiance of this story and the way it was shot. It has a great cinematography, creating very dark and claustrophobic scenarios. The soundtrack is also good, because it also has mysterious, dark, melancholic and melodic music, like a ghost story must have! One other detail that I also appreciated was the fact of the demons were characterized only as shadows, as a dark light in the underworld… I found it so much better than the traditional way of characterize demons as little monsters with sharpened teethes, horns and a back tail…

I think this film is very well produced, though I agree it's a bit slow sometimes and could have been more suspenseful. However I also think this melancholy present in the plot and the soundtrack fits perfectly in a dark and mystical story like this.

The acting is reasonably good, but I only would like to mention the Portuguese actor Joaquim de Almeida, playing YURI character… It was a surprise to me hearing him speaking some lines in Russian, but he's a "box of surprises" anyway…

I also would like to say that I think this movie is too much underrated here on IMDb. I Liked this film, especially because of its ambiance as I said before, and I found pretty absurd that a user can say things like this: "There are two shameful reviews in IMDb promoting this movie and they are typically fake, written by users with only one review in this site". Just because he has more than 3000 reviews he thinks he's opinion is better than anyone else's! It's really sad…

My final vote to this different but good film is 7/10.