Content warning: sexual assault, homophobic slurs, racial slurs, domestic violenceDanila (Sergei Bodrov, Jr.) has just completed mandatory service in the Army and is looking for a new path. His brother, Viktor (Viktor Sukhorukov), has been working as an assassin for a gangster (Sergei Murzin) in St. Petersburg and outsources a hit to Danila. Viktor knows that he's gotten a little too expensive and is hoping some new blood will throw off a possible double-cross. Danila, flush with cash after a successful execution, seeks out life and music but the gangster is not so easily put off.
I didn't like this one as much as Assa. It also meandered but less whimsically, which just made it boring instead of a journey. Also, it didn't really feel like a complete story. In an American movie, this would just be Act 1 and would probably only be a 30-minute montage of various criminal scenes to set up the rise of a new empire.
According to Wikipedia, this was made for about $10,000 and it looks it. Everything is appropriately grimy and DIY. Music features very heavily, especially some band called Nautilus, who even make a cameo at a house party.
There are better crime films and probably better Russian films. This is not one to get very worked up over which is probably why it's not available for streaming outside of a VPN.
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