racist and full of plot holes
I simply cannot find much good to say about this movie besides its surface level entertainment value. Balabanov is clearly a racist, and if you read the fantastic article on the film's official website (in Russian) you will find statements that are simply not true about American race relations. At one point he claims that the word "watermellon" has become taboo here... I personally have never encountered a problem with the word "watermellon" and attach no race related meaning to it at all. He presumes to speak for Americans when he knows nothing. He is also woefully uninformed about the welfare system and affirmative action, obviously having read a handful of reactionary articles without doing any research into statistics. For example, half of Americans on welfare are white. The dialogue about how black people are closer to their natural instincts, and that's why they are so angry and powerful, is about on level with calling them animals. Maybe that's the Russian way of looking at it, but political correctness aside, that's racist. Issues of race aside, the movie was full of plot holes and loose ends. Danila kills a lot of henchmen, including shooting an innocent black man in the face because Danila doesn't want to pay for an illegal gun. But leaves the mob boss alive in the end, just as he seems to forget about justice for his murdered army buddy. In the latter case, he also lets the man responsible go, and never thinks about it again after he leaves for America. In between, you other posters are right, he doesn't sleep with any models. Instead he sleeps with television icons from Russian pop culture and the Chicago news. Why? Who knows, and furthermore, who cares. The most I got out of the film was, Russians are as clueless and ignorant about America as Americans are about Russia. If you feel like watching a Chechen war veteran wander the streets of Chicago killing nameless, faceless criminals usually without any real reason, and ultimately get to see him let all the bad men who are really responsible walk free, then please enjoy the film.
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