This hit Russian blockbuster rides on the recent sci-fi/YA wave and turns out to be an odd mash-up of The Day The Earth Stood Still (Keanu-style) and The Man Who Fell To Earth. It has all the weaker trappings of modern Young Adult films - unsophisticated storytelling, naïve politics, a silly love triangle - but it also has flashes of something more interesting, from the spectacular opening crash landing of a spaceship on Moscow (and its eerie 9/11 parallels) to the late clash of aliens/protestors/military police. It is clearly over-long, not helped by a typically strained English dub in this version, but it is nevertheless interesting to see this weak and weary sub-genre filtered through the non-Hollywood film-making lens.
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