Such a weird combination. Not scary or disgusting enough to be a horror; Not original enough to be interesting sci-fi. Not clever enough to be considered social commentary. And doesn't care enough about it's own characters to be good personal drama.
A strong independent woman it's not happy until she puts the whole world in danger.
My first Russian speaking movie and I have to say ... very good! It was interesting, very well acted, with neat creature design, clever plot and held my attention right until the end. Special mention goes to the music soundtrack which lifted the movie very nicely indeed! Solid entertainment and will make me choose Russian again soon! 7/10.
I'd call this a very "austere" horror flick, which might be attributed to the Russian style: very too the point, no over the top gun battles, all contained within a single military base, no "global conspiracy" involved, a single unexpected twist, and an end that ties all loose knots ... basically all meat and no grizzle.
It was entertaining, and that's all you need out of a movie.
I don't understand why they incorporated a love story into this. Besides that, it was decent.
not a masterpiece but a good movie, nice to have a break from all the Hollywood shit
Very interesting alien creature movie very cool creature design very well done for a foreign movie better than a lot of the movies made here in the us.
Sputnik is like my romances: I go in looking for excitement but all I find is drama.
I wish they had toned down the inner demons and turned up the real one.
Nice little russian Movie.
Good Score and an overall good 80s look. I watched the movie with russian dub and subtiles. Some story parts are creative, some are pure genre-esque.
But the most outstanding aspect of the movie is its russian origin. So it gets a different vibe and i liked it.
Meeeeh... Good photography and acting, but the story is not well tell. So not worse but no good either...
I really enjoy it. Great sci-fi, some horror elements, great effects, excellent music.
This was enjoyable overall. The creature effects look good. It's a cross between the snake-alien that kills Millburn in "Prometheus" and the Mezcal worm that Steven barfs up in "Poltergeist II".
There's some suspenseful moments, primarily for the first hour and a half. The last 20 minutes turns into the standard chaotic shoot at the attacking monster schtick.
Russian movies and VFX are getting better. Definitely worth a try if you are looking for science-fiction.
Nice Russian move. I like it.
The movie has a very interesting story, the effects are great and there are good performances, but due to the extremely slow pace, it ends up getting tiring and more difficult to get involved.
The score was great and really added to the movie. Overall it was pretty good too. The creature design was OK but could have been better if it wasn't totally CGI.
It's ok. But with a name like sputnik, I expected something else.
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It's a bit meh, and it's a shame because the idea was good, but the slowness and the added drama (beware, one of them with a final twist that doesn't matter to anyone) takes it down some points. Entertaining and that's it.
A pleasant surprise. Good movie. Recommended.
amazing wanderful i have no more words
It's Russian so has to be crap - right? WRONG.. this is right up there and surpasses most Hollywood space movies.
Soundtrack and surround-sound are perfect.
CGI/Special Effects - superb.
Story - very good, keeps you interested right up until the end.
9/10
The Russians did good with this one! I liked this shit, Definitely better then what pedowood is putting out these days!
It's not bad so much as it is bland. None of the characters are particularly clever. Nothing that happens is particularly interesting. Nothing about the move stands out in any way.
it is understood because astronauts have a long quarantine ... it has a certain similarity with alien the eighth passenger
a perfect russia alien movie, well done, you wont miss you time. Good acting & good music
not a masterpiece but a good movie, nice to have a break from all the Hollywood shit
not a masterpiece but a good movie, nice to have a break from all the Hollywood shit
[Sitges FF] A terror science-fiction exercise that uses the Cold War background as an element that aims to give a certain metaphorical-political discourse, but remains on the surface. As a film that has a clear vocation for boxoffice, it works in some moments, but most of the action tries to build tension from the dialogues, without succeeding. In the alien design, it moves in familiar, mimetic and cliché paths.
The plot kinda dragged at the beginning, overall it's an okay movie. The soundtrack is amazing tho, kudos for that
Review by FLYVIP 2BlockedParent2020-09-15T00:01:21Z
Very interesting start, a good setup, having the main character as a psychologist is quite a change for a scifi/alien movie, the creature looks great and original, the fx are pretty good level. There seems to be all the ingredients for a great movie.
However, once you're past the revelation of what's actually happening, it's completely fucked up by the fact that not a single action by any character makes any sense. It's completely ridiculous, and the only thing in your mind for the second half of the movie is "What ? Why the fuck are you doing this ? Are you insane ?"
For starters, yeah the choice of a psychologist is interesting, and makes total sense with the setup of the story. However, once you know what is going on for real, that's utterly stupid. What is she going to do ? Talk the creature into getting out of the body ? And how are either of them going to survive ? In Arrival,they had linguists, that was original, and it made sense. Here less, but it would still make more sense than a psychologist. A biologist ? A chemist ? A zoologist ? A specialist on parasitism or symbiosis ? That would have helped.
Then there's the stupid addition of a useless love story. She's a top qualified psychologist, and yet after 3 days and 2 discussions, she just fall madly in love with her patient (emphasis on the madly given what she does after that) ?
Then there's the other scientist guy, feeling threatened by her presence even if they are not in the same field and do not have the same job. He doesn't even want to talk to her so they can progress in their work, yet at some point he has a total change of heart and is also willing to die to help them escape ??
Even if these actions already make no sense with nothing in the balance, they are incredibly insane when put in context. So the cosmonaut here is more or less in prison, ok. He is not badly treated, he's basically just not allowed to leave. On the other hand, he's inhabited by an unknown alien creature that goes out of his body without his control and eats humans, maybe that's a good reason to keep him locked in ?
It could be considered cruel that he doesn't know what's happening, but he even reveals that he has been lying since the beginning and is fully aware of it and having memories of the creature's action. Not only the fact that he lies is bad, by doing so he also conceals extremely important information for the study of the creature. It also reveals a very dangerous mindset that should trigger all sorts of red alarms for a psychologist.
So maybe wanting to help him is nice, but to do what ? They want to go to Moscow ? With the creature inside him ? Seriously ? And then what ? Leave the creature be ? Or just hold the guy in a less secured place in the middle of a huge city instead of a military base in the middle of nowhere ? It's even pointed out explicitly that we know nothing of the creature. That it could be just an infant form and the adult could be huge. We don't even know if it could reproduce. Or as it learns to stay out of the host longer and longer, if it would not just leave it at term and leave him to die. The danger is incredibly HUGE and childishly simple to understand. And yet none of these high level scholars seem able to grasp it ?
And what about the actual escape ? They already know his life is in danger when the creature is out. Yet they try it. Knowing fully that a lot of soldiers will be killed. And when she finally realizes he can't live without the creature, instead of doing a U-turn and bringing him back to the creature, she just stops the car, and even gets him out of it, what ? trying to get to Moscow by foot ? What the actual fuck ???
There are also included unrelated scenes with the kid, meant to make believe that's the guy's kid when it's actually her as a kid. These serves absolutely no purpose in the story, or character development. There are just here for the "fool you, that was not what you though it was", but they are totally useless.
So great start, good concept, great realization, good fx, great actors, but shitty movie that really turns into irritatingly stupid nonsense.