I spent
around a week trying to find internal strength and summon all my abilities to
write a couple of words about this movie. I was pondering about deceitful
marketing, lying trailers and tough destiny of ordinary picturegoers, who have
to put up with the fact that you know nothing about the movie until you
actually see it, and thus they take immense risks of watching something they
won’t like. To cut the long story short, I was trying to come up with the way
to explain why Branded is the worst movie I have seen in my life.
Should I
talk about actors? Ed Stoppard is simply not good enough for this role, he
looks lost; Jeffrey Tambor does not convince as the US spy; Leelee Sobieski
only impresses in the undress scene. Style? The movie tries to copy Generation
P (2011), lively and hilarious story about Russian advertising market in 90s
straight after USSR broke up, but Branded is not even close in its emulation.
Directors? Although there were two directors, I didn’t notice major contribution
of either of them. If anything, they only ruined the film by amateurish
execution.
