Mission London (2010)

I enjoyed the movies when I saw it on cinema six years ago. I enjoyed it even more a month ago when I watched it again. "Mission London" is a masterpiece but there are a couple of issues: you will not understand it if you are NOT living in Bulgaria and you will NOT like it if you are working for governmental organization in Bulgaria or another county in Eastern Europe. Clearly the movie is not for everyone but if you fulfill the requirements above you will have a lot of fun.The plot is very good and the actors are well known in Bulgaria. There are a lot of hilarious moments and memorable funny quotes.

Well , the great commercials about this movie made me think that it would be something very interesting and entertaining movies...well I WAS WRONG. May be I didn't catch the line...but it was such a mess.Some story for some people who actually do...nothing , excuse me , but I believe that kind of commercials blurs the view of the spectator. I was expecting for something different ... what about the actors...well again bigger expectations. But may be the mistake is mine , I had bigger expectations, in future I'll try expect the worst looking for the best! I really need something good !It was partly funny,but not good enough.

Mission London never gets boring and entertains 100%. The actors - most of them very well known to the Bulgarian public and completely unknown to the rest of the world, are full of qualities and motivation to do their best. That makes them very persuasive. In fact this movie is so good, if it was a woman I would have married her brother (Bulgarian way of expressing). Of course it will be fair to say that the humor in the film is directed a little bit more towards the Bulgarians, there are some specific touches connected with the Bulgarian culture and style of living that the Bulgarians will grasp more effectively than others. So in my opinion that makes the film more enjoyable for a Bulgarian than anybody else. But nevertheless this one is a fine piece of a movie. If you watch carefully you will eventually know something more about Bulgarians and a lot more about the way they organize foreign adventures.

For years, I've heard Bulgarian audiences wonder why we cannot produce a movie that holds up when compared to Hollywood comedies. Well, now we have. And the result is pretty satisfying. The first thing that struck me about the movie was how professionally it was made. The camera-work, the editing, the sound mixing, everything was of a pretty high standard, which is not something that Bulgarian films have recently managed. The acting was generally mediocre and the dialogue was sloppy at times, but overall all scenes were watchable, even the more talky ones. The focus of the movie was not in the performances anyway. The tempo was brilliant. At one point I thought the scenes were too short and the film would lack cohesiveness, but by the ending this style of editing makes sense and the film plays great, seeming neither too short, nor too long. While this is predominantly a comedy, deeper themes are there and they are examined in a non-intrusive way even if they are mainly Bulgarian-specific. Being able to understand all the jokes will enhance the viewing immensely but that does not mean that foreign audiences will not appreciate the film. Overall I give it 8/10 simply because the movie is head and shoulders above any Bulgarian comedy that has been attempted in the last decades. For non-Bulgarian audiences the film is a solid 7.