Cherkasy

I was keen to watch this movie because of the atrocity that's right now, as I type this, being committed by Russia against the sovereign State and the people of Ukraine.

This movie, "U311 Cherkazy", is supposed to be about the Russians' annexation of the Crimea in 2014. But it isn't really about that at all.

You know, as something of a student of cinema and with a very, very large collection of movies, TV series etc on DVD and Blu-ray, I think the thing that most pisses me off is a movie that fails to deliver the goods. A very good example of this is the movie "Barry" which is SUPPOSEDLY about the early life of Barack Obama, but just isn't. That movie said nothing substantive about the young black man who would become President of the USA and this movie U311 Cherkasy, says next to nothing about what happened in the Black Sea and in the Crimea in 2014.

This movie runs only about 90 minutes but it was 57 minutes in before any Russian even appeared, menacingly or otherwise. The rest of the movie just involved minor skirmishes between the Russians and those few Ukrainians who, on that occasion, decided to give even the smallest FU to the Russians who would ultimately steal a part of Ukraine in what turned out to be something of a rehearsal for the terrible things that they're doing in the rest of Ukraine now. Eight years later.

I found "U311 Cherkasy" very much a waste of my time. It promised a lot, said very little, showed nearly nothing and simply failed to deliver.

Very, very poor in my opinion. 4 out of 10

JMVScotland.