A shallow shell of a film. A commercial, conformist, creatively impotent piece of propaganda shite. The only reason this film exists is to tell the russian people how great of a nation they are. Throughout almost 2.5 hour runtime the film raises no questions and touches upon zero themes. The only thing it does is shows how 2 guys went to space and back. I'm absolutely against the idea of making historical films just for the sake of showing historical events. But this abomination doesn't even do that. I'm not familiar with the original story, but I'm 90% sure the film constantly lies to you. It can be seen in countless cliches, and the fact every 5 minutes smth goes wrong in their carefully planned space operation. And each time smth goes wrong, the film obviously overdramatizes the events. Like, when their pod has landed somewhere in Siberia, and the government can't find them, they just HAVE to sit outside the pod to freeze to death. I mean, what's the fucking point? I know it's not much warmer inside it, but at least it's less windy. Oh yeah, and the music.... It just keeps playing, I think I'd have a hard time finding a quiet moment in the film. And all the music is this typical hollywod blockbuster ripoff kind. No originality whatsoever. I guess I'd have to give it a point for a few beautiful shots, especially the in the scene, where the guy first steps out into space. Other than that, absolute waste of time. Terrible.