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The Duelist (Russian: Дуэлянт, romanized: Duelyant) is a 2016 Russian action adventure thriller drama film directed by Aleksey Mizgirev. The film stars Pyotr Fyodorov, Vladimir Mashkov, and Yulia Khlynina.[4] This is the Russian third feature film produced using the IMAX format.[5] It was released in Russia on September 29, 2016 in full IMAX.
The movie goes back to the novels of City mysteries, popular in the middle of the 19th century (the most famous example - Les Vrais Mystres de Paris (1844) by Eugne Franois Vidocq).[6] In preparation for filming, Alex Mizgirev reviewed the movie The Duellists directed by Ridley Scott (1977) and loosely based on the novel by Joseph Conrad's Duel, which, in turn, was inspired by Alexander Pushkin's The Shot.[7]
Set in Saint Petersburg in 1860, the story revolves around retired officer Yakovlev. A deadly shot, Yakovlev is effectively a kind of mercenary in that he is available for hire through his associate Baron Staroe to stand in for others in formal duels.
Anton Dolin noted the uniqueness of the genre of "the most intriguing of the Russian film of the year", where Saint Petersburg is represented as "city of permanent flooding", rain-drenched and mud; in this respect it resembles the works of steampunk London. According to Dolin, it is extremely rare in post-Soviet Russia the sample quality mainstream and the first ever Russian blockbuster, has earned a solid "five": at an altitude here and casting, and "brutal-rock" music, and "noble-monochrome" movie.
According to conclusion written by Andrey Plakhov: "Mizgiryov with his usual taste for brutalism produces big-budget costume author noir genre and esthetic at the same time: Petersburg is buried in dirt, the Grand Duchess sleeps with cynical mercenary and Russian nobles, who boast of a code of honor, behave if it 'brother "dashing nineties", or thugs, adventurers in the Wild West". His colleague Michael Trofimenkov saw this as a conscious debunking the myth of the beautiful and noble 'Russia which we have lost': "High Society - a flock of black brutal killers, wearing a fetish noble honor, the concept of which has already become for them a "concept". The ruling class, professing the cult of blood, sexually worshiper arms and engaged in pointless self-destruction in the duels, the right word, is not worthy of reverence to him. Around this class more trouble-free and curl performers dirty orders, intermediaries, pimps. But perhaps the nastier they titled young man with big names and a slim profile, ready to sink your best friend a knife in the back".
Western Professional reviews of the film were very few. Based on 14 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, The Duelist has an overall approval rating from critics of 43% based on 14 reviews, with an average score of 5.50/10.[10] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 10 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[11] The Hollywood Reporter's Leslie Felperin found the film as appropriate to compare to the "universal for any country story about social mobility issues, honor and militarism" with classic westerns, though lamented the technical imperfections ("in IMAX some of the frames darker look videotaped"). The Variety reviewer Dennis Harvey gave a moderately negative review, rated the film as "Putin's fantasy of the Russian Empire" and noting the absurdity of individual scenes and episodes.
One of the Russian characters crosses herself the Eastern way, from right to left. Later, one of the American characters crosses himself the Western way, from left to right. I appreciate the attention to detail.
John Wick: Chapter 4 is a lot of fun. So fun, in fact, that I want to say a few things about it, but I really don\u2019t want to write a conventional review, because that would feel like work, and that would kill the fun. So instead, here are some bullet points, starting with a few notes about the series as a whole:
First, it is remarkable how the mythology has evolved over the course of the franchise. Indeed, just the fact that it has a mythology is kind of remarkable. The original film, which came out in 2014, was a fun little B-movie but nothing too serious: it\u2019s about a retired hitman, John Wick (Keanu Reeves), who comes out of retirement to avenge the death of his dog\u2014and there really isn\u2019t much more to it than that. Yes, there are hints of a secret world, filled with assassins who follow certain rules, but it isn\u2019t until the sequels that this world really begins to grow into something global and elaborate. Does the mythology hold together? Um\u2026 probably not. Things that are treated like big deals in one film might get written out of the story after just a few minutes in the next film. But hey.
I re-watched the first three films before seeing the fourth film, and, watching all of them in the space of just a few days, I was struck by how slight the original movie is: it runs just 101 minutes, or just a little bit more than an hour and a half before the credits start rolling. (It\u2019s also more than an hour shorter than the new film, which runs a whopping 169 minutes.) Each of the sequels felt like a step up, to me\u2014although Chapter 2 takes some dark turns that I didn\u2019t really care for, like the suicide in the pool. That\u2019s the film in which John has, perhaps, the least agency: unlike all the other films, where he is pursuing his own goals (revenge, redemption, etc.) against incredible odds, Chapter 2 begins with John being forced into doing something against his will, and his resistance to that force doesn\u2019t really fit the momentum or trajectory of the rest of the series.1
Remember how Chapter 2 began with a clip from Buster Keaton\u2019s The General, as a tip of the hat to the silent comedies that inspired these movies and their action scenes? The new film basically begins with a three-part homage to Lawrence of Arabia that made me laugh out loud.2 This super-long sequel definitely wears its epic pretensions on its sleeve, and hooray for that.
There is an image, early on, of four horsemen, and at first I wondered if they might be representative of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Turns out, not quite, as one of the horsemen is actually chasing the other three. But it\u2019s a fitting image, all the same.
One of the first people John meets is \u201CThe Elder\u201D, the highest authority in this parallel criminal universe. The Elder was played by Sa\u00EFd Taghmaoui in Chapter 3 but is now played by George Georgiou\u2026 and I was kind of amused by the re-casting of this character, because I had noticed Georgiou in Carnival Row just a couple days earlier and, at the time, had recognized him as one of the Zealots in A.D. The Bible Continues.
Chapter 3 began with an \u201CAdjudicator\u201D showing up at the Continental Hotel and giving its manager Winston (Ian McShane) seven days to resign his position, as punishment for helping John in the previous film. Chapter 4 begins with a \u201CHarbinger\u201D (Clancy Brown, and I still can\u2019t quite believe that the bad guy from the original Highlander is also the voice of Mr Krabs in Spongebob Squarepants) showing up and giving Winston one hour to evacuate the building.
Winston and his concierge, Charon (Lance Reddick), go to a skyscraper to meet a figure known as \u201Cthe Marquis\u201D (Bill Skarsg\u00E5rd), who is basically the ultimate antagonist in this movie. They stand in a tall room with a glass wall looking out over the city, and at one point Winston says to Charon, \u201CYou have the unshakable faith of David, my friend.\u201D This felt like a nod to the 2009 series Kings, which starred McShane as a sort of modernized version of King Saul who did a lot of his business in skyscrapers with tall rooms and glass walls just like this.
This series has featured plenty of point-blank or almost-point-blank gunshots. In one of the very first fight scenes in this film, someone uses a bow and arrow at a similarly close range. Also: one of the combatants in that scene is a woman, and I found myself hoping the film wouldn\u2019t do the clich\u00E9d thing of getting her to wrap her legs around the guys she was fighting, Black Widow-style. Thankfully, I don\u2019t think she did do that\u2014but John Wick wraps his legs around a few people!
Speaking of TV-show references, that first major fight scene takes place in Japan, and one of John Wick\u2019s allies is played by Hiroyuki Sanada, and I think at one point in this film (not necessarily during that scene) we hear some version of \u2018Paint It Black\u2019 on the soundtrack, which amused me, as Sanada had a recurring role in HBO\u2019s Westworld, which also made significant use of that tune.
Donnie Yen is great as a blind assassin who is coerced into trying to kill John. When I saw this film, the only movie I could remember seeing him in before was Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, in which he played yet another blind warrior of sorts, and I had to check afterwards to see if he really is blind himself. (He isn\u2019t.) Looking at his filmography now, I realize that I have seen him in several other films; I just didn\u2019t register his name at the time, for whatever reason.
Religious language and imagery abound in this franchise. In Chapter 2, cathedrals and statues of angels loom large behind Winston during his meetings with John (the scene where he \u201Cexcommunicates\u201D John was shot by the same fountain where Godspell\u2019s baptism scene took place), and we learn that the criminal network behind his hotel is governed by a \u201CHigh Table\u201D consisting of twelve people. By Chapter 3, Wick is brandishing a crucifix like some sort of identity badge, and people are talking about the hotel being \u201Cconsecrated\u201D and \u201Cdeconsecrated\u201D. And now, among other things, Chapter 4 gives us a nightclub with \u201CHimmel\u201D and \u201CH\u00F6lle\u201D (i.e. \u201CHeaven\u201D and \u201CHell\u201D) banners flanking the entrance.
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