RUSSIAN "APOCALYPSE NOW" ON STEROIDS

Rating: 8/10 (31 March 2018)

Classic Russian cinema is THE ARTSIEST one in the world. It is built on basic graphic elements and a powerfull symbollic of the simple and direct script.
On the other side, the Russian war movies of the past were quite often drowned in pathetic and overemphasized patriotism, which lead to a significant diminishing of their art qualities.
All of this can not be said for the one of the most powerful and most painful to watch war stories of all time, "Come and see".
Elem Klimov filmed a merciless and never ending torment for the average viewer, bombarding him from the very start with unbearably intense editing of every imaginable war horror from the deepest levels of hell. Although basically empty in the script line, "Come and see" will extinguish your soul and blow you away with one of the most powerful endings in the history of war cinema.
"Come and see" is one those movies you will watch only once, but will never forget.