Russian Avengers ? Yeah, no. But Russian Justice League ? We're not that far.
I didn't have any problem with the CGI, it was actually pretty good for a low budget movie, and honestly, the quality and integration is not that far from Justice League. Fight scenes and choregraphy are pretty good too.
Worse point: the actors are totally inexpressive. All of them. And it's very disturbing because every character has their little mandatory sob story moment and it looks like they're telling you they bought some bread this morning.
Characters have almost no backstory, and they barely interact with each other. But yeah, given the actors' level, I guess we're not missing much. And again, they have as much introduction and story as Justice League characters.
The story is pretty basic. Introduction. Find the superpowered guys. They attack and get their ass kicked. The villain does his thing. They powerup. Final fight. They win. But the way it's done is very amateurish. But once again, so is Justice League on most of this points.
Like the intro could have been just words on black screen, or a reenaction. But it's a military guy doing a presentation, just the way you would do a movie intro. It feels very weird.
Assembling the team is done in a finger snap, it's basically just a characters' powers demonstration.
The first attack is the only thing looking like a real written scene.
In the middle you get each character's little sob story, though it almost feel like it's just narrated because it had to be there.
Their new costume are pretty much useless, but somehow it got them stronger ? OK the bear with the big gun is fun. But can't see what it brings to the others. And Ler just turn his stone power tohaving a kind of electric whip... why ?
And the final action is pretty ridiculous. They're just told secondhandedly that they can share energy. And boom, they can turn themselves into a super kamehameha machine by just touching each other, and make it work ion the first try.
Still it's watchable.
Review by Critical ImpactVIP 4BlockedParentSpoilers2021-01-07T12:39:29Z
Just imagine you were making the Avengers but didn't have any of the rights to it and you also didn't really have much time to come up with these things
Story
Characters
Backstory
Music
Now imagine instead you spent a lot of your time on these things
CGI
A transformation sequence of a man bear turning into an actual bear
It's like budget Avengers and it's bad but not bad in the good way like The Room is so bad it's good. I will admit there were a few times I was like whatttt though it was mostly due to the absolute stupidity of the plot or the ineptitude of the heroes in this film. There's basically only 1 bad guy and the good guys get caught almost instantly by his henchman. I'm not sure these are the heroes the generic military organization really need to sort out the world's ills.
The heroes themselves are kind of bland even if on the surface they have potential, you have
1. Man who can turn into a bear man or can turn into a full bear. Once you give him a mini gun he's about as effective. Oh and it auto targets when he's in bear form so why have it manually target at all normally? Oh and the bad guy can just punch him and knock him out
2. Rock guy, he can control earth and stones and what not, he can also go half the thing if he wants but he can't obviously cover himself entirely in stone. They upgrade his suit so he has some rocks built in along with a whip that I guess has stones in it that uses electromagnets to cut his enemies. Oh and the bad guy can just hit through his rocks and knock him out then break his spine.
3. Fast guy with blades who can basically run faster than a bullet and cut people up but is almost instantly hit with a sleep dart. Then they upgrade his suit so it has quite a large codpiece. The bad guy just punches him even though technically speaking he should be able to dispatch him with no problems.
4. Invisible lady has forgotten her past and now she's joining up to fight for the chance of getting that memory back. So she can't actually be invisible unless she's in water or apparently as long as it's raining. This power seems really specific... oh and she can resist really cold and hot stuff. Which is good because about 30 minutes in she's standing under a pipe and gets hit with something really cold and frozen solid. Sure is lucky it wasn't bear man or rock guy
Bad guy
1. Lightning/electrical man who can basically control anything with electricity in it(even things that probably need someone to physically press something). Oh and he's really strong and looks like a potato with whatever face prosthetic they used. He wants to take over the world because someone done him wrong.
The music was like some really bland version of The Avengers and I know I keep going back to that but it's hard not to compare it to it. I guess maybe you could compare it to The Fantastic Four and it might actually like quite good in comparison.
Unless you are really really bored and have a few brain cells to lose don't watch this movie. Or just watch Corridor Crew's react video where they react to bad and good russian CGI and you'll see basically enough of the movie to understand what it's all about.