Mjeteconer Just perfect...

ChanFamous I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.

Gurlyndrobb While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Taha Avalos The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

grantss 1943, German-occupied Belarus. A teenage boy, Florya, joins the partisans and expects a life of duty and adventure. Little prepares him for the terror and brutality he will witness.Power, brutal WW2 drama. Shows the horror of war - certainly not your average glamour-and-glory WW2 movie. In particular, demonstrates well the atrocities the Germans, and the SS especially, inflicted on Russian civilians in WW2.Not perfect though. Starts in haphazard style, with plot developments that sometimes don't make sense or seem random. Some of the acting can be a bit hammy at times too. However, from a point the movie finds its focus and from then on it is a relentless, gritty, tension-filled ride.

shakercoola An expressionist, graphic retelling of true events during 1943 when 628 villages and its inhabitants were destroyed by invading German forces. The director was on a mission to bring the terrible acts to light; he bluntly and angrily portrays the mania and brutality of the German SS and the genocidal attitudes of the German soldiers. The protagonist, a boy hoping to defend his family, offers resiliance and dignity, and but endures the anguish of war. There is some light relief too showing the camaraderie of the unfortunate beleagured souls, and his lot as a boy in a man's war.

classicsoncall It's probably a good thing that we have movies like this that show the brutality and evil of war, but I don't know if the mass of humanity ever learns from them. In recent days I've watched this movie and "The Battle of Algiers", and if you look at present day headlines and follow news of terrorism around the world, one must concede that the aggressive use of force is a distinct part of Man's nature. This is a viscerally disturbing film to watch, with scene after scene of intense brutality that would render a normal person who experienced it dysfunctional and mentally unhinged from reality.It's those utterly insane things that young Florya Gaishun (Aleksey Kravchenko) experiences after he quite enthusiastically joins the war effort against the Nazis in his home country of Byelorussia. The most disturbing scene for this viewer occurred when the German soldiers herded the citizens of Perekhody into a barn and set it on fire. A rationale offered later by a young captured German soldier reflected a hideous ideology, that all Russians needed to be exterminated and children had to die because 'the trouble starts with them'. To claim that this warped Nazi thinking belonged to butchers is an understatement; that's too kind a word to apply to the monsters that they were.I'm appreciative for having watched this movie, it's story and images will remain with me a long time. Some consider it the greatest war movie of all time, and though I would disagree, I would point to "All Quiet on the Western Front" as another film with a similar emotional impact and rates a similar rating to this one on IMDb, the point of difference being that 'All Quiet' was made in 1930 and relates the horror that took place during World War I. Both films ought to be a timely reminder that war is hell, and can turn one's life into something unimaginable in an instant.

Miguel Neto Idi i smotri is one of the movies that I felt the most, it is a very realistic and heavy war movie, the Soviet movie portrays very well what is a war, the film has scenes that bothers you, people suffering, you see the Terror of war, the direction of Elem Klimov is very good, he commands very well, the cast is also very competent, Aleksei Kravchenko is excellent, but I think the film takes time to gear, I think the 2 and 3 very good acts, But I did not like the first one, I found it very tiring and even a little exaggerated, the photograph is good, the 'dead' tone combines too much with the film, you do not see hope in the movie, and that works very well, Idi i smotri It's a very good war movie, and it's worth your time. 8.4