pure torture

Rating: Null/10 (3 May 1999)

It's difficult for one to conceive how anyone could actually enjoy watching this. After about twenty minutes, we've given up any hope of seeing the film look even remotely organic, but then it goes on for another 160 minutes. All the while we just sit and stare at the ugly (and phony) Russian landscapes and listen to that godawful music by Maurice Jarre playing the same two bars over and over. Then, the ending is intrinsically insulting, but we're too numb from watching the rest of the movie to feel insulted. I don't know how they did it, but they managed to make a movie even more boring than Cleopatra (1963) in less time.