Sputnik
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Cast
- Oksana Akinshina
- Fedor Bondarchuk
- Pyotr Fyodorov
- Anton Vasilev
- Aleksey Demidov
- Anna Nazarova
- Aleksandr Marushev
- Vitaliya Kornienko
- Vasiliy Zotov
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Despite all the flaws, Sputnik has one chief thing going for it: it holds your attention, from the first (and arguably best) twenty minutes, to the last (and arguably worst) twenty.
The film swerves from sci-fi to horror to psychological thriller to melodrama, but in a way, it works. It’s clear Abramenko wants to serve a full-course meal of a movie, and in stretching the dynamic range of emotion he hits on moments that are at times operatic and at others somewhat soapy. But in doing so, brings a new layer of story that makes Sputnik feel epic.
Sputnik’s third act is a rush of formulaic action meant, perhaps, to compensate for the interminably repetitive and impersonal second act, which is mostly concerned with reinforcing a set of foregone conclusions.