White Tiger

2012 "Spring 1945. A legend is born"
6.1| 1h45m| NR| en
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Great Patriotic War, 1945. After barely surviving a battle with a mysterious, ghostly-white German Tiger tank, Red Army Sergeant Ivan Naydenov becomes obsessed with its destruction.

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Tedfoldol everything you have heard about this movie is true.
Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Humbersi The first must-see film of the year.
Kirandeep Yoder The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.
ashishbansal_in The Movie starts with a mystery and keeps attention of the user till the end.. however as the things turns towards the end it leaves spectators with a very deep feeling about a Powerful Message. Also scenes and talks shown at the end which every one knows however never dares to speak in Public. Loved the creativity , Loved the message and Overall presentations and scenes are also good and acceptable.
Ryan Russo I really enjoyed this movie. Not for it's intense action scenes. Not for its sound mixing, but for its thoroughly thought out art direction and its dedication to historical accuracy. The costumes, landscape and tanks really showed the hard work and research put into this film. Side-note: (Possible Spoilers) I thought the fact that the personification of the Russian people through Aleksey Vertkov was perfect. His inner struggle and physical battle can be compared to the struggle of the Russian people through the early 1900's. The personification of evil in the white tiger was also very interesting. The fact that Aleksey said at the end, we have to destroy the evil or he will return furthers the personification and drives the point that they put thought into the scripting.
s3276169 White Tiger reminds me, in some ways, of a mechanized version of Come and See. Its far removed from Come and See in terms of its content and approach but the powerful, anti war message, is fundamentally the same. War is death and death is never ending. The tiger tank is a metaphor for modern warfare's mechanized, unrelenting and untamed nihilism. This is seen not only in the efficient destruction of tanks and people on the battlefield but also in how war alters the human spirit. What contemporary warfare comes to mean for people deeply and irreparably, touched by it. People have become part of the machine of war and identify themselves on that basis. As can be seen in the mindset of the main character, in a sense, "born again", with a spiritual link to the killing machines he operates.Its a message reinforced throughout this film and is watered down only a little in the final 15 or so minutes by a thankfully brief digression, that tries to explain the motives of the Fascist leadership, in its war against Russia. I can see why this has been done but to me, it still feels a little forced and rather redundant.That said, White Tiger remains a subtle, clever, anti war film. One that comes armed with a rather unique perspective. Eight out of ten from me.
a666333 I found this film to be very successful. It takes an historical situation, carefully reconstructs it in an accurate and believable fashion, then applies an extra-real/fantasy overcoat as a platform to drive home a number of philosophical ideas. These are not simple ideas either, they are powerful and controversial and force one to think unless of course one was looking only for a nuts-and-bolts war movie. In that case, you will likely be disappointed but it worked perfectly for me. There were a number of slower scenes that would seem out-of-place without the wider philosophical/sociological themes playing out. I suggest that viewers not look to be entertained in the straightforward sense but instead allow themselves to be provoked. Don't worry about the acting, directing, sets, camera work, etc. They all good and work well. There is a clear Tarkovsky influence in many of the scenes although not as surreal what you get in Stalker and Solaris.