Deadly Code (2013)

**contains spoilers** I just came out of the cinema and believe this movie is a really good one! In all Salvatores' movies there is a common thread, this is the subject of friendship. This time it is dealt in a very though way. It is possibly about a friend demanding attention up to the extreme gesture of being killed by the hand of his only friend. the whole story is developed in a non linear way, with continuous jumps in their childhood, but the plot is always very understandable and the storytelling captivating. Didn't read the book, so cannot make judgements on how well the director translated it into a movie, but actors, images, music, all seems to me to be working pretty well. It contains violent scenes and may not be your best choice for a romantic date, but I believe it deserves a better rating than it has now.

Fmovies: I see people from Russia and former soviet countries are upset because "Siberia is not like that". But this is NOT a documentary, this is a movie telling a story! If you watch the movie and judge it as what it really is, maybe you'll see that it's a beautiful story, and the cast did an excellent job.

I assure you one doesn't come out from the cinema thinking to Siberia as a land of criminals and assassins.

We knew before it's a harsh country, where living conditions are though, so we imagine people must be tougher to survive. What's wrong in using this simple assumption to create a fictitious group of fierce people with its own laws that keep fighting for living in harsh conditions?

And the story itself IS BEAUTIFUL: friendship, love, revenge, from the point of view of people grown up with an unconventional scale of values. But in the end you can ask yourself if you, with your "conventional" education, would have acted the same way or not.

IMHO, among the top 10 in the last few years.

Shame on you, those ignoramuses who believe in Lilin's fairy-tails. Bears on snowy streets, everyone with earflaps and balalaika, vodka's drinking everywhere, and now this: Urka community. LOL. Lilin fools you guys. And you, John Malkovich.. Oh my Siberian God! Although watching we had a lot of fun. But the fact that this foolish fantasy is a bestseller is very disappointing. I thought western audience is smarter.

Here author's Russian friends wonders his crazy fantasy: He loved to invent all sorts of stories, no one really paid any attention to it, the usual dreamer, only girls and believed his tales. http://www.kommersant.ru/doc/1781720

Deadly Code fmovies. If the gratuitous violence, bestowing of treasured flick-knives (for use), elaborate but inexplicable tattooing, accompanied by barely intelligible dialogue (in Siberian English?) creates a film for you, good luck! in isolation, there are striking, almost self-indulgent, dramatically lit and contrasty shots. The Italian makers have deceived themselves if they thought they had made a film. It will make the viewer keep clear of Siberia, and value his own education, wherever else obtained. The disruption and lack of continuity incline the poor viewer to fast-forward in search of a coherent scene, or... the End.

Only the printed lines of a short Preface give any coherent account of the situation. Jump-cuts, wilful lack of continuity, and the odd extraneous clip (e.g. Fall of the Berlin Wall), added to the trivial dialogue, increase the incoherence.

Every second, every moment in this movie is lie. This movie is based on it. 'Urkas' is not a nation. 'Urkas' is the name of criminals in Russia. There is no Russian name 'Kolyma'. 'Kolyma' is the name of Russian town, not a human name. There is no Russian name 'Gagarin'. 'Gagarin' is the surname (last name) of the first cosmonaut in the world. Georgians in this movie is not look like real georgians. If you don't know how they really look, type in Google 'Georgians' and you'll see it. Jews in this movie looks like... goths. This is only some moments in this movie that are not truth, because if I begin to describe every lying of this movie, I can write a whole book. This movie is dishonest. If you want to see the real life of Russian criminals, I recommend you to see the Russian movie 'Bespredel'.

Folks, it is just bullshit, sorry for my language. It is just awful. I tell you it as someone who grown up in Sibiria, Kogalim city of Tumen and who currently lives in the Caucasus. Basically, storyline develops in the regions which I do know well.

First, it is not Sibiaria, people don't live like that, there are no criminals like that. There are no such standoff between police and cirminals. Plus, criminals are not commute well there. Second, I assume that one part of events develop in breakout region of Moldova, in Prednestrovie, which has nothing to do with Siberia.

Third, the Caucasus story is stupid. The fighters in the Caucasus are not connected to drugs because it is against their core believes. Gagarin drinking vodka at the end of film is horrible – it is prohibited in the Caucasus, specially among radical fighters because they are mostly radicals and don't spoke/drink.

Do your homework well if you want to shoot a real movie.