As a patriotic Pole it urges me to dislike the movie but I'll try to be as objective as possible. The political influences and one sidedness of the movie, deliberately making it look like it was in fact an attack make the movie hard to watch. Again, regardless if you haven't known the current political situation in Poland - the movie is still weak. It feels like it was made by two producers angrily swapping between takes and arguing whose shot should be included. It's too chaotic. The film digresses between being a documentary,a feature film and a news report and step by step disorients the viewer between the three. The ending result is very... questionable, to be the most subtle. The actors seem wooden, the plot seems very far-fetched (especially to someone who knows about the political situation in Poland) and rewritten a few times over. As an advantage, the movie has some decent CGI effects (still not as good as Hollywood blockbusters), the score is composed properly and to effect and some shots are very pleasing to the eye. Other than that, this film is nothing more that pure propaganda - trying to disprove what has been proved a thousand times already. Unless you are in absolute desperation for a political, action, drama movie, look for something else.
Review of Smolensk
