White Tiger (2012)

The Movie starts with a mystery and keeps attention of the user till the end.. however as the things turns towards the end it leaves spectators with a very deep feeling about a Powerful Message. Also scenes and talks shown at the end which every one knows however never dares to speak in Public. Loved the creativity , Loved the message and Overall presentations and scenes are also good and acceptable.

For a low budget film it looks good and there are some decent battle scenes. And it has a very interesting premise. That's the good part.Unfortunately that about all this film has going for it. The acting is pretty wooden. You never know what anyone is thinking, or feeling. There seem to be plenty of pensive moments but they don't reveal anything. Because not one character in the whole movie has a complete character arc. Who they are when they first appear is exactly who they are when the film ends. No one is changed by anything. No one learns anything. Not one plot point it ever resolved.The first and second acts plod along, not at a sluggish pace, but none too swiftly. And then, before you know it, the war is over. Literally, just like that. Not with a bang. Not with some triumphant battle. Just one long and boring scene with Germany surrendering to the Soviets. You wonder if this will eventually lead to something. But it doesn't. This is followed by another long and boring scene of marching captured German soldiers. And you think this is going to lead to something. But it doesn't. I can't help but wonder if either they couldn't figure out how to end it. Or that the whole movie was created just to give some public service announcement about the horrors of war.

Someone recommended it yo me, I will not do it. Looks like Russian cinema lost it's artistry completely. Russia lost it's artist soul together with the USSR. Not that USSR was something to mourn after. Where are the Tarkowskies, Mihalkovskies or Koncelakovskies of this time? Together with Tolstoy, Gogol, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Essenin, Stravinsky, Rachmaninoff and many others. Lost, completely lost. This great country stopped producing something beautiful or useful for the humankind as it used to do once. Only fear among it's neighbors, that stays. Misplaced mysticism in a nonsense story telling, amateur acting, awkward scenery, lousy pyrotechnics, you will find all of it inside. A theme with immense potential wasted by pathetic imitators.

What starts off as appearing to be a superbly shot war movie quickly, and I mean within minutes, turns into a cross between a ghost story and a war comic. The acting is brilliant, the tanks look brilliant, but the script is extremely confusing. First we have the badly burnt main character who miraculously recovers and it seems regenerates. Now Russians are smart. They wouldn't send him back into battle, they would study him. Just a minor point and not enough to ruin the movie, but then the inconsistencies mount up. Like the German Tiger tank that blows up every Russian tank it sees, except for when it gets right behind our heroes tank. It misses. This German tank can somehow dematerialise at will and can also fire a round off each second. Fine, if it is a fantasy, I can accept that BUT then towards the end things suddenly change. We are shown the Germans surrendering in a long, elaborate and totally out of place scene. The hundred or so Russians all seem to have cameras in what could be a paradox of a modern day news conference. This scene is totally out of place and is then followed by another where the suddenly introduced German generals are given strawberries and ice cream by the Russians. Everything made sense at the end when I realised the script writer and director were the same. What a waste. This could have been a brilliant movie with a different script and a different director.