a feature length fight scene occasionally interrupted by brief dialogue and pigeons

Rating: 9/10 (15 February 2017)

Lots of great fighting. Not much else. Except there is a dog in it. See it if you want to watch a feature length fight scene occasionally interrupted by brief dialogue and pigeons.
So, kind of like Matrix 2. Except with pigeons instead of a sex scene. There's even a bit of reflection on the nature of reality. Sort of. Or else it's a comment on how modern art is a funhouse mirror to real art. And makes a nice sparkly tinkly sound when you shoot it.
Also, we get to see the pencil thing. There's really quite a lot of good fighting, with guns, with fists, with knives, and yes, even with a pencil. And did I mention there is great fighting?
The plot is very basic and straightforward, but since it's easy to follow and does what it needs to do to move the fighting-- er, I mean to move the story forwards-- that's fine for this kind of movie.
It's an almost perfect example of its genre. I took a point off for AGAIN mispronouncing Baba Yaga. Filmmakers, you have had 3 years to think about it, are you sure you don't want to go with saying it how it's spelled? How it's spelled in Cyrillic letters, I mean. You know written Russian is phonetic, right? One letter, one sound, one kill. Er, that is-- anyway kudos for being OK with having a totally badass male character go by a nickname that means granny witch.