Spectators are delighted with Bekmambetov's Hollywood experiment

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

Timur Bekmambetov's first Hollywood experiment was a success. The majority of Russians who watched the film "Wanted" were satisfied, and more than half even consider it a real "breakthrough".

About 57% of viewers who watched "Wanted" consider this first-ever Hollywood blockbuster by a Russian filmmaker to be a "breakthrough," according to Bekmambetov's press service. According to the press service, the results were obtained by the Public Opinion Foundation during a survey of viewers after the exit polls, which sociologists conducted from June 26 to June 29 in cinemas in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Novgorod using a formalized questionnaire.

Only 16% of respondents did not like the picture, RIA Novosti reports. Famous Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov is among such dissatisfied people.

The action-packed action with a budget of $ 150 million is the first production of this scale in the history of Hollywood, carried out by a director from Russia and with the participation of a Russian team (computer graphics, costumes, make-up, and so on).

“When one of the main ideas is whether it is possible to kill one person to save thousands, and this one to be killed has a Serbian surname, then we understand that blockbuster is a blockbuster, and ideology is ideology. And they explain to us who the enemies of the world are - the Serbs. Everything is very clear,”says Mikhalkov. In his opinion, in Russia at the present time it would be best to start shooting historical remakes of old films - about Admiral Nakhimov, Suvorov, Kutuzov. At the same time, Nikita Sergeevich spoke of Bekmambetov as "a wonderful and talented person."

However, for 30% of those surveyed, the film was better than what they expected of it. For 38%, it met their expectations. Only 13% were disappointed, saying that the film was worse than their expectations, with 4% finding it difficult to answer and 14% saying that they did not expect anything definite from the film.