![]() If you go with the Russian mafia possible aspect, then you have to say, well, they don't want to be seen anywhere near the property because, you know, someone really powerful has their eye on it and waiting for her to sell it to them. You don't know if it's the gateway to the portal of hell and that's why people wouldn't enter the building. You don't know if the people are afraid of ghosts. You don't know if it's the Russian mafia after the building. You never find out why these people are so afraid. Or when the husband is passed out, and instead of escaping right away, she takes time to recover the furniture. For example, when the husband gets beat up and goes missing and she wakes up without a care in the world. There were points in there where the scene before doesn't make any sense for the scene afterward or the reaction of the characters. So devoid of emotion that I actually thought it was dubbed because often dubbed movies can't reflect what the actors were portraying as far as emotions, so dubbed speech always has a flat quality. It has this bizarre, languid unemotional context and the actors had a very flat way of speaking. About three-quarters of the way in, this movie actually just made me angry. I realize that foreign films won't necessarily follow the formula of american-made films. Definitely don't waste your time or your money. Also, what kind of visa does this stupid American have? She's just going to live in Kiev now? What the hell? Everything was stupid. ![]() Her whole life was with this 'other' grandma (the maid.) Why is she so loyal and intent on avenging a woman she has never laid eyes on or interacted with? And then, why go down to the car with your luggage, only to stay on the street and then go back in the house. This is a woman this character has never met or interacted with. The forced tenderness of the line "Babushka" was incredibly disingenuous. The ending is so profoundly stupid, it made me want to throw a brick at my screen. ![]() Just stupid sentences, one after the other, with no connection to moving a story forward, just falsely creating fake tension. Absolutely no mention of the previous exchange, or any explanation of what's going on. Here is just one of one thousand examples of stupid, terrible and useless interactions: woman says to man "Are you going to tell me what's going on in this place?" Man replies "sure, you're going to find out sooner or later." Woman angrily replies "what the hell is that supposed to mean?" Man says "Ok, well here are some papers for you to sign." That's it. ![]() Firstly, why are our 2 main characters so unlikable? Why give them both a terrible personality, that makes them impossible to root for? Why have vague and unexplained references to some kind of crime syndicate? The writing and the dialogue was offensively bad. These are all bad choices made by the writers and director. Revenge it, as you love your mother's life, Or be ye not henceforth call'd my children.There is so much wrong with this movie, and none of what's wrong is a mistake. No sooner had they told this hellish tale, But straight they told me they would bind me here Unto the body of a dismal yew, And leave me to this miserable death: And then they call'd me foul adulteress, Lascivious Goth, and all the bitterest terms That ever ear did hear to such effect: And, had you not by wondrous fortune come, This vengeance on me had they executed. Have I not reason, think you, to look pale? These two have 'ticed me hither to this place: A barren detested vale, you see it is The trees, though summer, yet forlorn and lean, O'ercome with moss and baleful mistletoe: Here never shines the sun here nothing breeds, Unless the nightly owl or fatal raven: And when they show'd me this abhorred pit, They told me, here, at dead time of the night, A thousand fiends, a thousand hissing snakes, Ten thousand swelling toads, as many urchins, Would make such fearful and confused cries As any mortal body hearing it Should straight fall mad, or else die suddenly. ![]()
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