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I happen rather to like the film. Clichés? Yes. Inaccuracies? Tons of it. For instance, all modern airliners should have cargo bay isolated from passenger cabin and sudden depressurization of latter is hardly possible.

So what is there to like? For me it is overall... tranquility. Unlike most modern thrillers, this film leaves your nerves undamaged. It just looks reasonable. No maniacs, no superheroes, no dark forces, no anything like that. Just "good ole boys" doing what they can for people around them. And that is very refreshing. You could think that film is made in 70s or 80s.

So, all in all, this is a nice film to relax at night. Just don't expect much thrill and you'll be all right.

Thank you.

Inspired, perhaps, by scientific and adventuring voyage of Tim Severin in 1984, this film has it's unique fusion of ancient and modern cultural elements. The movie starts like usual soviet documentary about Argo 1984 voyage, and then smoothly dissolves into what I would call a rock-pop-opera. Light-hearted music, carefree play of actors, not fixated on profits and benefits - all this well reflects Russian title "Vesyolaya hronika opasnogo puteshestviya", which means "Joyful chronicle of the dangerous (serious) voyage". Joyous blend of poetry and music, sometimes romantic, sometimes philosophic, sometimes cheerful and windy, this movie is ever-ready remedy for everyday humdrum.

One of my friends, being in nostalgic mood, said that with collapse of the Soviet Union an ability to make such movies was lost.