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Rating: Null/10 (9 June 2010)

Come and See Review by Dean Gold WARNING: CONTAINS SPOILERS
There were three stand out scenes for me in Come and See.
The scenes of the airplane bombing early in the film were the most harrowing I have ever seen in a movie. I had never seen anything that seemed so "real", so it was no surprise to learn that the only that to make it look that real is to really drop actual bombs from planes. It is still incomprehensible to me how the filmmakers got away with this legally and how they could actually count on the actors not getting maimed or killed. The same goes for the cow field scene where they used live ammunition which was more effective then the best executed CGI could ever do. Also the crawl through the swamp was shot in a way that made it clear it was really happening and again I wondered how the filmmakers knew the actors wouldn't sink down and suffocate in that bog. How Klimov expresses Florya's deafness in the aftermath of the bombing made me cringe in its effectiveness.
I don't think I'll ever forget the scene of the Nazis burning the barn full of people. Words cannot express the feeling. It should simply be seen. The most searing image in my brain is the shot of the Nazi woman gluttonously feasting on lobster with delight as men, women and children were burned alive by the Nazi murderers destroying the village. Later, when Florya sees her twisted and twisting on the ground dying a painful death, I confess I relished it, though Klimov may have intended anything but that.
Finally, I come to the scene where the Russians capture some of the commanding Nazis. It's hard to choose between what is more maddening: The disgust worm-like sniveling of the Nazi who tries to find sympathy from the Russians about to kill him or the Nazi who sticks by his "you deserve to die" convictions. This scene was as sickening and suspenseful as it gets.
The major issue that detracted from the film for me was the lead. It was no surprise to me to learn that Alexei Kravchenko who played Florya was not a real actor at the time. His unconvincing performance often took me out of the film, but he did a good job considering that he was a first timer.