{"id":45702,"date":"2020-08-13T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller\/"},"modified":"2020-08-13T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T21:45:00","slug":"watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a289ea96fd8e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a289ea96fd8e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Sputnik_Review_An_Immersive_%E2%80%98Alien-Inspired_Russian_Sci-Fi_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sputnik_Review_An_Immersive_%E2%80%98Alien-Inspired_Russian_Sci-Fi_Thriller%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;\u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Sputnik_Review_An_Immersive_%E2%80%98Alien-Inspired_Russian_Sci-Fi_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><strong>If you want to watch \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller  visit the <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Sputnik_Review_An_Immersive_%E2%80%98Alien-Inspired_Russian_Sci-Fi_Thriller%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;\u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>                       As the cinema of celestial brutes and space-set horrors goes, Ridley Scott\u2019s 1979 classic \u201cAlien\u201d still retains a gold-standard status among its kind, continuing to lend its DNA to various sci-fi quests beyond the atmosphere. The latest film to ingest a piece of its eerie spirit \u2014 albeit, with varying degrees of success \u2014 is \u201cSputnik,\u201d a tense genre exploit by debuting Russian director Egor Abramenko.<\/p>\n<p>A claustrophobic character study with gripping set pieces, serviceable spatters of gross-out B-movie gore and plenty of red-lit corridors, \u201cSputnik\u201d doesn\u2019t quite deliver upon the juicy potential of its paranoia-induced Cold War-era backdrop. Still, Abramenko maintains the film\u2019s finite <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eal throughout, mostly thanks to a familiar aura and a charismatic lead performance by Oksana Akinshina, a fine surrogate for the tough-as-nails heroine Ellen Ripley.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its limitations \u2014 among them is an inelegantly designed extraterrestrial antagonist and simplistic special effects created on a small budget \u2014 it\u2019s perhaps no surprise that \u201cSputnik\u201d is a monstrous commercial hit on its native soil, the land of Andrei Tarkovsky and his heady masterpiece \u201cSolaris,\u201d another of Abramenko\u2019s oblique influences with its existential disposition. Without access to cinemas amid the COVID-19 crisis, more than one million viewers in Russia have reportedly streamed Abramenko\u2019s film since its VOD release late April. And with no U.S. blockbusters to compete against, it wouldn\u2019t be a stretch to expect \u201cSputnik\u201d to attract American audiences as well upon its digital release by IFC Midnight on Aug. 14. No spandex-clad, multiplex-dwelling superheroes blowing stuff up to save the day? Try circa-1980s cosmonauts in spacesuits, scheming Russian officials and self-serving politicians on your home screens instead \u2014 that is, if you haven\u2019t had enough of the latter two groups in your everyday already.<\/p>\n<p>Though most of the movie is earthbound, \u201cSputnik\u201d launches its first act in space during an ill-fated mission that sends a sole survivor, astronaut Konstantin Veshnyakov (Pyotr Fyodorov), back to terra firma. The year is 1983, and the Soviet government is working overtime to boost the morale of the country through uplifting stories of national triumphs and heroic role models. Except, neither Veshnyakov nor his failed voyage fit that bill.<\/p>\n<p>The young astronaut doesn\u2019t remember a whole lot about the outer-space catastrophe that killed his co-pilot and seems to have come back with a slimy, snake-like, parasitic \u201ccompanion\u201d (the literal translation of the word sputnik from Russian) planted inside his torso. When the creature periodically exits his host, bursting not out of his chest but mouth like vomit, Veshnyakov remains unharmed and even more bizarrely, unaware of the grotesque episodes beyond feeling a mild tickle in his throat.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Akinshina\u2019s gifted scientist Tatyana Klimova is having a tough day, defending her risky yet life-saving methods in front of a medical review board. Facing the threat of losing her license unfairly, she accepts an offer from the high-ranking, villainous big-shot Semiradov (Fedor Bondarchuk), who oversees Veshnyakov\u2019s case at a distant research facility. The transaction is simple enough: Tatyana would help them observe and interrogate Veshnyakov to ultimately separate the creature from its human cocoon, and get to save her career in return. But when she slowly discovers the depths of corruption and sees through Semiradov\u2019s secret mission that often employs frighteningly inhuman means to get results, Tatyana starts forging a deeper connection with her subject, ultimately deciding to fight the shady powers to facilitate Veshnyakov\u2019s escape.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming to take the deep skepticism toward institutional authority at the heart of \u201cAlien\u201d further, Abramenko and screenwriters Oleg Malovichko and Andrei Zolotarev ground \u201cSputnik\u201d in terrifying procedural machinations primarily, rather than the fear and shockwaves spread by their own creature. In that regard, \u201cSputnik\u201d is unlike the recent, standard-issue, ensemble-driven \u201cAlien\u201d imitators such as Daniel Espinosa\u2019s (very good) \u201cLife\u201d or Neasa Hardiman\u2019s frustrating \u201cSea Fever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Often, you get a heartening sense that the filmmakers might have different fish to fry here. But the film\u2019s political ambitions around critiquing bureaucratic control don\u2019t coalesce. For starters, we never feel sure about how the authorities plan on harnessing the power of the extraterrestrial creature once it\u2019s separated from the human body it occupies, or what exactly they plan to do with it. In the midst of various dark cat-and-mouse sequences deafeningly scored with Hans Zimmer-esque bombast, an underdeveloped outside world and a slapdash backstory revealed about Akinshina, the era-specific secrets and motivations of the film\u2019s tarnished heroes and single-minded antiheroes feel all too broad and pedestrian. The script also takes half-baked stabs at ideas around class and toxic masculinity, but these thematic efforts don\u2019t really go anywhere either.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Akinshina makes good with her sharp-eyed character\u2019s engrossing resolve, while Abramenko maintains a satisfyingly immersive and alarming mood within \u201cSputnik,\u201d thanks to some sophisticated, mazy camerawork by cinematographer Maxim Zhukov. In a way, his film feels like an exciting space mission cut short, a journey worth following even if it ends before reaching its ultimate destination.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Like this articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-movies-tv-series\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch Movies &#038; TV Series <\/a><\/span>category<\/strong>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2020\/film\/reviews\/sputnik-review-1234733218\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Watch Online \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221; If you want to watch \u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller visit the Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com &#8220;\u2018Sputnik\u2019 Review: An Immersive, \u2018Alien\u2019-Inspired Russian Sci-Fi Thriller&#8221; As the cinema of celestial brutes and space-set horrors goes, Ridley Scott\u2019s 1979 classic \u201cAlien\u201d still retains a gold-standard status among&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45703,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[52669,52671,1948,52672,38407,52670,52668],"class_list":["post-45702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-watch-movies-tv-seriess","tag-alien-inspired-russian-sci-fi-thriller","tag-egor-abramenko","tag-reviews","tag-sputnik","tag-tribeca-film-festival","tag-watch-sputnik-review-an-immersive","tag-watch-online-sputnik-review-an-immersive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}