Moscow Heat

Finally, I watched it. I know that Alex Nevsky is a king of C-movies, but this one is B no less. The oppening duel is a nice throwback to the classic heroes played by Adrian and Michael - Highlander vs D'Artagnan. There are many things to look at. Pre-Hipster Moscow as I remember it: strange shadows under the orange sun (I even feel the aroma of cheap cigarettes, waffles ice-cream with Real milk and shashlik-kebabs mixed with the smell of gasoline through the screen), old cars, fantastic vintage dusty buildings, soviet era ships on the river, leather jackets and women on high heels. Actress Maria Golubkina is a true russian mob woman of late 90s early 2000s - dangerous and beautiful. Some action scenes here and there. Nevsky even did little bit of martial arts fighting - I would love to see more boxing from him. I mean, he was amateur boxing and kickboxing fighter in famous Moscow boxing gym, I know he can fight, I saw some footage, so why does he have so few fighting scenes in his movies, c'mon? As an action movie it's somewhere 5/10, but as a video document it's 10.