Sentinelle

Imagine if this movie had blockbuster budget. I bet your version would differ from mine, but Hollywood would have Scarlet playing unbelievable soldier from Russia making the world a better place. What we have here is Olga playing brilliantly, looking almost believable as a soldier and trough her inner nightmares shining some light on this bleak immoral world. It is slow, but slow is smooth. I liked this film. I liked it a lot. There are no higher than life concepts, but why would we want another picture about cogs fighting in a world of global geopolitics. We want people doing it for other people and for themselves. In this essence A Sentinela is a brilliant 80-ies flick about family and revenge, but with grit and script of 21st century. Do not be rational about it, if you choose to watch it, just enjoy a the performance of someone doing what they think is right in their worldview.

I enjoyed this movie. Sometime a bit slow but necessary to adjust to the challenges many women face and the loneliness in some situations. While Olga is the main figure, I loved the father Russian guy (Nabokov) acting!

Revenge was a great revenge thriller, this one is not. Don't know why Netflix keep releasing this kind of garbage lately. Even Olga couldn't save this garbage. Boring, pointless, worst script and pathetic cinematography

The stars here are for Olga. It was not her fault the script went flat. This starts off well' then runs out of steam on the second half. More secondary character presence and development of would have provided better context for her story, and been much more interesting. The primary villain for example is not fleshed out or developed even near enough to provide an emotional counterbalance for the protagonist. More screen time and better writing on him alone will improve it. We need to feel and fret about how bad he is. Then we can more effectively justify Olgas journey. It felt like she was playing against an empty person who we barely knew. It would be better had things been more realistic in the second half too

It was short but ineffective. Olga is the only who can act. I like her acting, you cannot take that away. Although as a soldier she is more funny than cool. But the rest of the movie: idea, plot, story, continuity, feasibility, twist - does not exist. Camera work is amateur. Color grading is done by reading help, I guess. If you want a good feeling about this movie, then take any movie by Steven Seagal, cut out of it a quarter and stretch it out to 1 hour and 20 minutes.

I watched it while doing other stuff, household chores and ended up liking it. Since it doesn't have a complicated plot, it's easy to follow and I really liked the main character and her revenge motives as well as the character in general. The movie has some major plot holes and logical faults though but that was okay. The super duper action movies with Statham and friends also have those.