Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

Stometer Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

Rosie Searle It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

tstromsn Everything than can go wrong in a human's life happens in this movie. To the point it starts to feel a bit stupid. Also some scenes drags out too much to the point you ask if it was necessary to have them there. Also some very weird character choices that makes you wonder. But it had very good acting and interesting story and characters. So I would recommend watching it.

targe1314 I sometimes think people add an extra 5 points on this site when they see something with subtitles.I give this sleeping, depressing movie a 3, just for the one scene where I get to see how country bumpkin Russians have a fun camp out with 'drinkin n shootn'. They have more in common with the Americans than they would admit.To then have this 'idealic' scene be lost to a strange and bizarre incident that they don't fully explain until near the end of the movie, was just ridiculous and jarring. You are forced to do headcounts in every scene to see who got murdered. Why did the drunk with the AK let off a burst? Was he shooting at the adulterers? What the hell!Another point was the complete lack of explanation how the visiting brother could get away with having sex with his brother's wife constantly without getting caught, yet he's supposed to be there visiting and staying with them.The big fat drunkard mayor, who reminded me of Rob Ford, who suddenly turns into the maniacal dark mob demon, is also jarring and unbelievable.The drinking in this movie is so beyond belief. I understand Russians like their vodka, but are we expected to believe working class farmers and fish packers can afford to drink 2 bottles each a day? How are they not dead at 30? The next thing they do very weirdly in this movie is give you the rare opportunity to observe the entire opening readings, twice, of Russian court proceedings. in... a.... monotonous.... and rapid.... female Russian voice.There is no acting going on in this movie, as apparently the entire cast was encouraged to drink heavily, so we have drunken Russian bumpkins, a snob lawyer from Moscow, and a Rob Ford corrupt mayor look alike, all babbling drunken slosh at each other and spitting.The only acting done was by the teenage boy, as I guess they kept him out of the vodka, and even then his performance at times stretched into hysterical screeching.

The_late_Buddy_Ryan "Leviathan" is a visually stunning and powerful film—maybe "overpowering" would be a better word, since w/d Andrei Zvyagintsev tends to make his political points with (spoiler alert?) all the subtlety of a backhoe bucket… The standoff between hard-drinking, two-fisted Kolya and Vadim—the local satrap who covets Kolya's little piece of land for a project of his own (we don't find out what it is till the final scene)—is involving and suspenseful. The tensions in Kolya's household—especially the disruptions caused by the handsome guest from Moscow—make for a fine, simmering subplot, but after these story lines collide (an event we have to imagine for ourselves, since we don't actually see it on screen), it's just one damn thing after another till the film's bleak conclusion. I can't blame AZ for giving us such a pummeling to drive his point home, given the current state of affairs in Putin's Russia—and it seems to be working for him, since few other Russian directors get much traction in the West—but I didn't really appreciate what an amazing film this is till I'd had a chance to walk it off for a while… (One critic predicts you'll "stumble out of the theater," which seems about right.) You may have heard "Leviathan" described as a remake of the Book of Job; it is, with the proviso that it's the Leviathan (Job 41) that's calling the shots now, not Yahweh. Maybe it's not surprising that the satirical jabs at the Church seem like they're right out of an old Soviet propaganda film—I particularly liked the scene where the parish priest tosses a loaf of bread to a couple of snuffling porkers in a pen, then tries to feed Kolya a very slanted synopsis of the biblical tale. (Job's life starts to turn around, says Father Nikolai, when he decides to stop complaining…)PS—Just read (03/21/16) in the NY Times that "Leviathan"'s spawned a minor tourist industry in the town where it was filmed. Visitors come to see the Northern Lights, take classes in something called "snowkiting" and see for themselves if life there is really as horrible as it seems to be in the film

eddie_baggins While it moves about as slow as the leviathan at the heart of its title reference, Andrey Zvyagintsev's biblically inspired family drama is worth sticking it out for and while it doesn't have the same impact as his highly thought of 2003 film The Return, Leviathan is a unique and troublesome picture that offers a unique look at Russian life and politics.Loosely based around the Bible story of Job and his many trials, Leviathan is anything but an easy watch and in true Russian fashion, don't go into this experience expecting happy or colourful endings as the path to this tale is fraught with danger, lies and coldly played tactics. Zvyagintsev is a master of mood and he embeds this stunningly well shot and hauntingly scored (Philip Glass provides the films sparsely used tunes) film with an ever ominous cloud of dread and while the film seems set on a certain direction within the first hour, things quickly turn in another way entirely when a fateful camping trip takes place between our films mains players.What takes place between our traveling business/family man Kolya or Nikolay, his oppressed wife Lilya, their lawyer and friend Dmitriy and corrupt local mayor Mer is much better discovered as one watches proceedings take place and there are frequent moments where you feel someone is one up on another only for the narrative to twist conventions and while it remains slightly frustrating that certain questions remain largely under lock and key come the final scenes, Leviathan's web covers a broad enough spectrum that has commentary on everything from the church system in Russia through to Vladimir Putin's ever present figure being both a literal and figurative presence over the country.Understandably recognised at film festivals the world over and awards ceremonies in equal measure (this really is the type of product Cannes and the Academy lap up) Leviathan doesn't break any new ground or truly justify its nearly snail paced plotting but despite there not being much to actually love about this picture, this is a bleak drama filled with deeply unnerving moments which will make it a film you're likely to ponder upon days after the final reels have played out.3 ½ washed up whale carcasses out of 5