Translation sucks!

Rating: Null/10 (31 July 2004)

It is amazing that having so many authentic Russians in the crew they managed to bastardize the Russian language so much! Who wrote those dialogs for the Russians and Bourne himself? Please, if you plan to show this movie in Russia or, for that matter, in all of the former Soviet Union where the Russian language is still very much spoken let a professional check the translation, don't entrust it to an actress from Moscow or a taxi driver from Brighton Beach. Or call me, I will that do for the sake of art - for free. Accent aside (what do you expect from a Czech playing a Russian Mafioso), but you have a bunch of Russians who just replace English words with their Russian equivalents, and pretend it becomes Russian language! Audiences in Moscow will laugh at this. Don't you worry about the impression that you guys make? I don't mind general clichés about the Russians that this movie is made of. After all it is for the Western people who would not recognize a Russian without a sinister looks in his eyes or if he is not surrounded by bodyguards. It is getting a bit outdated in the real world, but, what the hell, the director has to speak the language the viewers would understand, and a drunken Russian is the word they know. But for crying out loud! Check your Russian before you put it on the screen!