Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

You have to give the guys who made this some slack/credit. There are not that many Russian slasher movies out there. That being said, there have been quite a few other Russian movies out there and most of them have been better than this one. Trying to copy a well known formula isn't a bad idea though.It tries to put some sense into the whole thing, but it doesn't really work that well. And the DVD cover (for the German DVD that is) looks better and more promising, than the movie itself. It's nicely shot, but after half the movie is over, it goes into hyper-speed and tries to avoid boring moments for the viewer. What it does achieve though, is letting you feel kinda strange at what you're seeing.Still the ending left me baffled and with at least one question. Unfortunately no one else seemed to have bothered with that question or just didn't care enough yet.