Escape (2005)
Just yesterday Evgeni Vetrov had a completely different life. He had money, perfect reputation, was respected by his colleagues and most of all - he had love; but apparently he had enemies as well. One day Vetrov's wife was killed, being the only suspect he was soon found guilty. Now the only thing he can do is run, run, in order to find the real killer.
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Excellent adaptation.
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.
An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
This movie is a Russian way of making typical Hollywood movie. Egor Konchalovski should be the son of Konchalovski who filmed in Hollywood, and I generally enjoyed his father's work. In this picture we have a decent performance by Mironov, but I personally don't like his style, his face is very expressive, but I can't believe in what it is trying to express. He's a little bit phony for my taste, he would be much better on stage. All other actors are not required of doing any comparable job. The post-production washes away any effort. The movie is too fast to be suspense thriller, you can easily divide it into 3-4 parts, and each could be a movie for itself, so the pace is very high, I couldn't feel anything about Vetrov and his series of unfortunate events, before the happy end cleared all "secrets", that honestly were too predictive from the beginning. So I wouldn't call it a thriller, since I was not fast enough to be thrilled, I would call it an action movie. I have to mention this movie stands out by interesting story, decent leading acting and nice cloning of the Hollywood style special effects. I disliked how the apartments looked, and all that refined clothes and make-ups.
Very nice movie. But watching this movie I could not stop thinking about that movie with Tommy Lee Jones and Harrison Ford, i think it was named "FUGITIVE". If I am not mistaken Harrison Ford also played the doctor in that movie. "A murdered wife. Unjustly accused husband. Escape. An obsessed detective. The chase begins..." Anyhow, I was crying, laughing, and at the same time thinking about the murder suspects. Touching performance by the actors. I am glad that finally Russians again began making nice movies. I tired of watching those clumsy "Boumer", "Brigade" type of movies with mafia, murder and narcotics in it. Finally we get Suspense THRILLER. All in all, I am giving it 10 out of 10!